올림포스 영어독해기본(1) 12강 변형

Vision is our dominant sense, and you want to look both ways before crossing ____ street ― it’s the first thing parents drill into their children.

But that doesn’t mean our sense of hearing isn’t ____ big deal.

I don’t have to mention the worn-out example of cavemen and ____ saber-toothed tigers.

There’s something that ____ sneak up and kill you today: a silent electric car.

These pose an unanticipated but serious ____ to pedestrians and bicyclists, who depend on engine noise to detect and orient to cars ― so much so that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now requires slow-moving electric vehicles to generate a warning noise.

It’s a reminder that ____ for us in a modern city, having both cues can mean the difference between life and death.

Sometimes traditions may ____ or appear to end because of convenience or changes in taste.

For example, to make a pumpkin pie, a cook is used to ____ to first find a pumpkin of suitable size, cut it, peel it, cook it, and mash it, all before combining it with other ingredients and pouring the mixture into a crust.

Now, cooks may choose to use canned pumpkin from the supermarket and cut out a great deal ____ labor and time.

Another changing food tradition is that many families no longer make ____ beans by cooking them in lard and choose instead to use vegetable shortening.

Perhaps this change came about because the family has come to prefer the taste of beans without lard, because concepts of healthy cooking have changed, or because someone ____ the family has heart disease or high cholesterol.

Forecasters who predict resource depletion often ignore or underestimate ____ power of markets.

For example, some forecasters use a current reserve index to estimate how long ____ resource would last.

The current reserve index divides the current known reserve of a resource by the amount currently used ____ period.

So, ____ we know of 445 billion barrels of oil, and we are currently using 15 billion barrels per year, the index indicates that we will run out of oil in about 30 years.

Some studies, like the Limits ____ Growth, further assume that demand will increase each year, thus depleting resources even faster.

But what they fail to see is that if markets are allowed to do their usual duty, ____ is, prices rise as depletion occurs, resources will last much longer.

Project leaders should not ____ surprised when disagreements emerge within the team.

In fact, ____ should expect them.

If they remain hidden, the leader may even want to seek them out ____ at least two reasons.

First, different views can bring with them good ideas about the project and how it might be ____

Although snap decisions about project changes should be avoided, leaders should be open to new and better ways to run the ____

____ when conflicting viewpoints are found, they are more easily resolved earlier rather than later in the project.

Although team members may disagree about one or another aspect of the project, ____ simply want their ideas considered and resolved.

The team tends to look to the project leader to play the lead role in resolving differences, and members will generally defer to the leader if ____ believe their views have been given due consideration.