영어 어법/어휘 연습문제 Day 2

Pursuing too challenging goals can be ______________ and produce unethical behavior in teams.

It encourages risk-taking behaviors that can _____________ the team and its mission.

For example, two leaders of a team climbing Mt. Everest in 1996 pushed through risky weather conditions to attempt to ____________ the mountain — a decision that led to their death and the death of six clients.

Overly ______________ goals can also motivate unethical behaviors, like misrepresenting performance and cheating.

Wells Fargo, one of the largest ____________ in U.S., was fined $185 million for the unauthorized creation of 2 million bank accounts, brought on from the high performance expectations of sales employees.

In addition to the damaging consequences, when a team repeatedly misses its goals, members become embarrassed, begin to blame one another and outside factors for problems, and may ___________ to commit to goals in the future.

This can erode the group’s confidence that it can ultimately ____________ its mission.

Many biologists are _____________ with the question “What is life?”

They point to past attempts to ________________ the living from the non-living (traditionally, organisms are said to eat, breathe, excrete, grow, move, respond to stimuli and reproduce) and tell us, quite rightly, that all such attempts have proved inadequate.

The reason __________ they have proved inadequate is simple.

“Eating” involves wildly different _____________ in, say, oak trees and weasels.

Weasels “move” in ways ___________ oaks do not, and so on.

Any definitions of “eating” and “moving” that are broad enough to ____________ such a range of meanings would be useless.

They would apply to many non-living things as well as living ones; and however broad we made our definitions, there would probably still be living things _______ which they would not apply.

The quest for a clear ___________ between living and non-living has always been pointless, say the cynics, so it is a waste of time to consider the question further.

As the celebrity industry has ____________ economically, so too has access to the lives of the stars we follow.

Even before the rise of social media, celebrity magazines and television shows ____________ every detail of stars’ romantic relationships, shopping habits, and family vacations.

Sociologist Joshua Gamson calls this the __________ of “unreality,” as consumers began to pay less attention to their own social lives than to the twists and turns of stars’ careers.

We are attracted not only by the power and beauty that famous people project and make accessible through ______________ but also by the pleasure of sharing a world in which familiarity exists without responsibility.

The investment in unreality is mutual, as celebrities and their representatives have much to gain from keeping this world _____________.

Fans’ ______________ to and emotional investment in their favorite celebrities are powerful commercial forces, as consumers look to the stars to learn which brands of automobiles, clothing, and makeup are most valuable and glamorous.