영어 모의고사 (자동 편성)

Last summer, I ①worked part-time at a small coffee shop near my house. At first, I only wanted to earn some spending money, but the job ②taught me far more than that. I learned how to stay calm during busy hours when orders ③piled up quickly. One day, a customer complained loudly about a mistake in her order. Instead of ④argue, I apologized and quickly made a new drink for her. She left with a smile, and my manager praised my patience ⑤afterward.

Central High School will host its annual career fair next Thursday in the main gymnasium. More than thirty companies ①are expected to set up booths to introduce different careers. Students can talk directly with workers ②who represent fields such as medicine, engineering, and design. Each booth will offer a short activity ③designed to let visitors experience a small part of the job. In addition, three guest speakers will give short talks ④about their career paths during the lunch break. Teachers strongly encourage all students ⑤attend, even those who already have a career in mind.

For a class project, I ①interviewed a local architect who has worked in the field for over fifteen years. She said she had always loved ②drawing buildings as a child. She explained that architects must balance creativity with practical concerns like safety and cost. When I asked about challenges, she mentioned that clients sometimes ③changes their minds after a design is finished. She also advised students ④to visit construction sites whenever possible, since seeing a real building take shape teaches lessons no classroom can offer. At the end of the interview, she smiled and said that choosing architecture ⑤was the best decision she had ever made.

Many students ①take a career aptitude test at some point in high school. This test, ②which is designed to measure a person's interests and strengths, does not simply tell students which job to choose. Instead, it helps them understand themselves better. For example, a student ③who enjoy solving problems might discover a hidden interest in engineering. However, the results should ④be used only as a guide, not as a final answer. Therefore, students should treat the test as a useful starting point for ⑤exploring various career paths, rather than a fixed decision.

On Saturday afternoons, the small square near my house fills with the sound of a street guitarist who sets up his amplifier beside the fountain. At first, I assumed busking was simply a way for musicians to earn a little ① pocket money, but watching him more closely changed my mind. He does not merely play requests; he studies the mood of the crowd and ② adjusts his set list on the spot, slowing down for a tired evening walker or speeding up when children start dancing nearby. Unlike a concert hall performance, a street show has no fixed stage and no guaranteed ③ audience, so the musician must win people's attention within the first few seconds or lose them to their phones. This constant negotiation between performer and passerby, I realized, is itself a kind of art, one that depends as much on ④ ignoring people as it does on playing an instrument, which is why I now find busking far more ⑤ impressive than I originally expected.

On January 1st, I decided to become a healthier person and wrote down three goals: exercising three times a week, reading one book every month, and sleeping before midnight. During the first week, I felt ①excited and followed my plan without any trouble. However, by the second week, I began skipping my morning jogs because I felt too ②tired after school. My friend Mina noticed that I looked discouraged, so she offered to exercise with me after class. Having a partner made the habit much ③harder to keep, and I also moved my book onto my desk instead of my phone, which helped me read every night. By the end of January, I had ④finished two books and jogged more than ten times, and I felt genuinely ⑤proud of the progress I had made.

For most of the twentieth century, a library was simply a quiet room full of books, and visitors were expected to stay ① silent while they searched the shelves. Today, many public libraries look completely ② similar. Alongside the usual shelves, you might find group study rooms, comfortable sofas for reading, computer labs, and even small recording studios for podcasts. Librarians say this change did not happen by ③ accident. As more information moved online, fewer people needed a library simply to find facts, so librarians began asking what their communities actually needed instead. The answer, in many neighborhoods, turned out to be space itself: a warm, ④ free place where students could study together, job seekers could print a resume, and children could attend a story hour. Some critics worry that libraries are drifting away from their original mission of preserving books, but librarians respond that a library survives only by ⑤ changing with its readers.

Two years ago, I began volunteering at an animal shelter near my neighborhood on weekends. My tasks included feeding animals, cleaning cages, and helping visitors choose a pet to adopt. One rainy afternoon, a frightened puppy refused to eat, and I sat quietly beside it for over an hour until it finally relaxed. Watching the puppy trust me changed something inside me. I began researching careers in ___________, subjects I had never seriously considered before.

Speed-reading courses promise a simple result: read several times faster while understanding just as much as before. Some students do learn to move their eyes faster after a short course. However, researchers who study reading have found a serious problem with these claims. Understanding a text depends not just on how quickly your eyes move across it, but on how deeply your brain processes each sentence and connects new ideas to what you already know. In careful studies, speed-reading graduates often score no better on comprehension tests than ordinary readers who read at a normal pace. This suggests that _______________.

Water activities are fun, but they require careful preparation to stay safe. (A) In addition, checking the weather and water conditions before you swim is just as important, since sudden storms can create dangerous currents. (B) For example, always swim in areas supervised by a lifeguard, and never swim alone, no matter how confident you are. (C) Finally, wearing a life jacket in open water and taking regular breaks will help you avoid accidents and exhaustion.