영어 모의고사 (자동 편성)

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.

Last January, Minji ①deciding that she would run three kilometers every morning before school. For the first week, she woke up early and ②ran happily, feeling proud of her new habit. However, after a few cold mornings, she began oversleeping, and soon she stopped running altogether. One evening, her older brother asked her why the plan ③had failed, and together they looked closely at her daily schedule. They realized that running before sunrise in freezing weather ④had been too difficult to maintain. So Minji changed her plan and decided ⑤to run after school instead, when the weather was warmer.

Imagine a cafeteria where a healthy salad sits at eye level while fried snacks rest on a low shelf. Nobody is ①forbidden from choosing the snacks, yet most people quietly pick the salad instead. This simple technique illustrates a nudge, a concept from behavioral economics that ②gently guides people toward better choices without restricting their freedom. Companies and governments ③increasingly apply nudges to encourage sustainable consumption. For example, some hotels print reminders on towels stating that most guests reuse them, which ④persuades new guests to do the same and save water. Similarly, energy bills that compare a household's usage with that of efficient neighbors often lead people to reduce electricity use. Unlike strict regulations or heavy taxes, nudges rely on ⑤obvious changes in design rather than force. Critics argue nudges alone cannot solve large environmental problems, but combined with stronger policies, they can meaningfully shift everyday habits toward sustainability.

When people have no specific goal, they usually feel ①confused about where to start, and their interest fades within days. For example, a student who simply decides to study harder this year often loses direction because the plan is too ②vague. In contrast, a student who sets a ③clear goal knows exactly what to do every day. A clear goal also makes progress easy to measure, and noticing small improvements keeps people ④encouraged. Setting a specific goal is one of the most ⑤ineffective ways to build lasting motivation.

The Hopeful Start Workshop will be held on January 10th at the Green Hill Community Center, and this event helps students set ①clear and realistic goals for the new year. The workshop will run from two to four in the afternoon, and participants will learn simple methods for writing goals that are specific and ②easy to measure. Each participant will receive a goal-planning notebook to use throughout the year. The workshop is ③open to all middle and high school students, and no experience is required. Registration is ④free, but seats are limited to thirty people, so early sign-up is recommended, and students can register ⑤offline through the center's website or by calling the front desk before January 8th.

Psychologists have long wondered whether reading fiction can change how people treat others in real life. Several studies suggest that novels which describe a character's inner thoughts in detail can train readers to imagine what other people are feeling, a skill closely related to empathy. When readers follow a character through difficult choices, they practice stepping into someone else's perspective without any real risk to themselves. This kind of mental practice, researchers argue, can carry over into everyday situations, meaning that _______________. Not every book produces this effect equally, however, since stories focused only on fast action appear to build empathy far less than stories that slow down to explore emotion.

During sleep, the brain does not simply rest; it actively reorganizes the day's experiences into lasting memories through a process called consolidation. (A) Sleep researchers have demonstrated this effect experimentally: participants who slept after learning a list of word pairs recalled more items the next day than participants who remained awake instead. Crucially, the benefit was not limited to simple recall; sleep also seemed to help participants extract general patterns from the material, suggesting that consolidation involves more than passive storage. (B) Newly formed memories are initially fragile and stored primarily in a brain region called the hippocampus, which has limited long-term capacity. (C) While a person sleeps, particularly during the deep stages of non-REM sleep, neural activity replays these fresh memory traces in rapid, compressed sequences, gradually transferring the information to the cortex for more durable, long-term storage. This replay strengthens the connections between neurons that encoded the original experience, making the memory more resistant to interference from unrelated events the following day.

Psychologists point to three main reasons why new year's resolutions often fail within a few days. (A) Second, many resolutions are unrealistic from the start, since people set goals that are far too difficult to reach in a short time. (B) First, willpower works like a muscle that becomes tired after being used too much, so people run out of self-control quickly. (C) Third, most resolutions do not offer any immediate reward, which makes it hard to stay motivated without seeing fast results.

주어진 문장: Despite his doubts, he refused to give up on his dream. Every January, our school invites a graduate to share advice, and last week a former student named Minho visited our class. ( ① ) Three years ago, he was a shy sophomore who dreamed of becoming a science teacher but doubted his own grades. ( ② ) He wrote down this single goal in his notebook and read it every morning before class. ( ③ ) Instead of studying everything at once, he focused on one weak subject each month and asked his teachers for extra help. ( ④ ) He also found a study partner who shared the same goal, and they checked each other's progress every week. ( ⑤ ) Today, Minho is studying to become a science teacher at university, proving that steady effort truly pays off.

주어진 문장: Still, reading six books was better than the year before, and I felt proud of that small progress. Last New Year's Day, I wrote three goals in my diary: reading more books, exercising regularly, and saving money for a bicycle. ( ① ) Today, exactly one year later, I opened that old page and smiled at how much had changed. ( ② ) I did not finish all twelve books I had planned to read. ( ③ ) My exercise habit became the biggest surprise, since jogging twice a week slowly became an almost daily morning habit. ( ④ ) Saving money was harder than I expected, since unexpected expenses kept appearing. ( ⑤ ) Looking back, I realized that steady effort matters more than reaching every goal exactly as planned.