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2011-11-고1 30.
In the not-too-distant future, everyday objects such as shoes, carpets, and toothbrushes will contain technology that collects information. You will then be able to personalize these objects, allowing them to change physical state like color or respond to your daily mood. They will also be able to exchange data with other objects and send information to other people. For example, your toothbrush will be capable of analyzing your breath and booking an appointment with your doctor if it detects the smell of lung cancer. In other words, what were once just ordinary objects will be increasingly networked and intelligent. Manufacturers will use the information generated by these smart products to sell you other services or enhance your "ownership experience."

2014-11-고1 31.
When you ask people to rank the days of the week in order of preference, Friday is ranked higher than Sunday, although Friday is a workday and Sunday is not. Would people rather work than play? Not quite. Then, why do people prefer Friday to Sunday? The reason is that Friday brings promise — the promise of the weekend ahead and all the activities we have planned. Sunday, while a day of rest, does not bring with it the joy of anticipation. To the contrary, although we may be having a picnic in the park or walking around town, these delightful activities are damaged by the anticipation of the full workweek ahead. Whether good or bad, our emotional state is determined both by feelings that are triggered by the world at present and those generated by our expectations of the future

2014-11-고1 32.
One of the reasons I've collected a large library of books over the years is because books are a great go-to resource. Other than having a conversation with someone who has accomplished what you hope to achieve, in my experience books and published works offer the most in terms of documented research and role models for success. The Internet has quickly become an invaluable tool as well. Whether offline or online, you're trying to find people who have already gone down the road you're traveling, so you can research, model, and benchmark their experience. A college professor once told me, "Gary, you're smart, but people have lived before you. You're not the first person to dream big, so you'd be wise to ___________________________________ and then build your actions on the back of their lessons."

2015-11-고1 32.
While a home provides shelter and a place to gather, it is also the safe place where we can express our feelings and enjoy some of the most important and meaningful events in our lives. Therefore, designing a home is a very personal venture. I strongly believe that a home provides a canvas on which we can illustrate who we are; y our space should look like you and no one else —even if you are using an interior designer. While some designers love a blank slate and the freedom to do whatever they want I prefer to work with clients who have an opinion and a story, and I always want the end result to be the best possible version of their taste.

2015-11-고1 33.
Houses in flames, crops stolen, and hasty graves for the dead. This was the legacy of Attila's Huns, sweeping across northern Italy and causing massive destruction to the remains of the Roman Empire. But they unintentionally left another, more positive legacy as well. Refugees from burning cities were desperate to find safe refuge. As things got worse, more Roman citizens streamed to the wetlands to avoid the mass killings and destruction on the mainland. Over the next few centuries they transformed the tough surroundings into an architectural wonder: Venice! Built out of misfortune, Venice eventually turned into one of the richest and most beautiful cities in the world. Thus ____________________________.

2016-11-고1 31.
People are attracted to individuals and things they cannot readily obtain. In the case with things, people are more attracted to a desired object because it is out of their reach. When the object of desire is finally gained, the attraction for the object rapidly decreases. Christmas presents provide a good example of this phenomenon. Toys children wanted all year long are thrown away several days after they are taken from gift boxes under the tree. The phenomenon also holds true for human interaction, particularly in the early stages of a developing relationship. The common dating rule has scientific merit. An individual should not always make himself or herself readily available to the person they are targeting for a longer-term relationship. A certain level of unavailability will make you more of a mystery and a challenge.

2016-11-고1 32.
We become more successful when we are happier and more positive. For example, doctors put in a positive mood before making a diagnosis show almost three times more intelligence and creativity than doctors in a neutral state, and they make accurate diagnoses 19 percent faster. Salespeople who are optimistic sell more than those who are pessimistic by 56 percent. Students who are made to feel happy before taking math achievement tests perform much better than their neutral peers. It turns out that our brains are literally programmed to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive.

2016-11-고1 33.
Questions convey interest, but sometimes the interest they convey is not closely related to what the person is trying to say. Sometimes the distraction is obvious. If you're telling a friend all the unpleasant things you experienced on your vacation, and she interrupts with a lot of questions about where you stayed, you won't feel listened to. At other times people seem to be following but can't help trying to lead. These listeners force their own narrative structures on our experience. Their questions assume that our stories should fit their scripts: "Problems should be denied or made to go away"; "Everyone should be together"; "Bullies must be confronted." By finishing our sentences, pumping us with questions, and otherwise pushing us to say what they want to hear, controlling listeners violate our right to tell our own stories.

2013-11-고1 34.
Ethical decision making requires us to look beyond the immediate moment and beyond personal needs and desires to imagine the possible consequences of our choices and behavior on self and others. In its most elemental sense, moral imagination is about picturing various outcomes in our interactions with others. In some sense, moral imagination is a dramatic virtual rehearsal that allows us to examine different courses of action to determine the morally best thing to do. The capacity for empathy is crucial to moral imagination. As we have no immediate experience of what others feel, we can have no idea of how they are affected. Only by conceiving what we ourselves would feel in the situation can we understand how they feel.

2013-11-고1 35.
Humans who lived as hunter-gatherers more than 10,000 years ago fitted into ecosystems by acting as predators, and on occasion they probably also served as prey. The role of humans in today's ecosystems differs from that of early human settlements. Today, humans in almost every part of the world no longer interact with nature as they once did. People have detached themselves from most ecosystems. Modern humans also tend to negatively affect ecosystems in ways that the earliest civilizations did not. One aspect of the study of ecosystems in environmental science provides a clue as to how disconnected humans have become from nature. Many ecosystems are named for the dominant species within them. Therefore, the world contains coral reef ecosystems, evergreen forest ecosystems, grassland ecosystems, and so on, but environmental science contains no "human ecosystems."