Can someone please explain how blank 3 has a negative connotation?
“Without the engineer’s assurance of safety, confidence is _______ and the project’s progress is hindered: even though safety measures can thus be seen as _______ in engineering efficiency sometimes requires a willingness to ______ it.”
Please explain how you’d do this one.
Hello,
I too struggled with this question and specifically wanted to better understand how to identify the connotation of blank 2. Please see my approach and point of confusion below.
I understand the following:
What I don’t understand:
Thanks in advance!
If you look on the RHS of semi colon, we have 2 ideas that are being contrasted right?
Out of these two ideas, which is the main one in your opinion?
would be the main one
It’s the other one unfourtunately.
I thought the first one would be the main idea because it is explaining the safety measures. Could you please explain further?
Your boss calls you into the office and says:
“Even though you do good work, you’re being too slow”.
What’s the main thing he/she is trying to say to you? That you do good work, or that you’re being too slow?
That I’m being too slow.
So the same thing applies here, so the second is the main point.
So the main idea of “efficiency sometimes requires a willingness to iii)--------- it” has to match the negative connotation of “ Without the engineer’s assurance of safety, confidence is _______ and the project’s progress is hindered” because of the colon ?
Yeah, the third idea is supporting the first through the colon I think
Got it thank you
The answer to this sentence doesn’t make sense to me. The first part of the sentence talks about how “without safety”, confidence is low and progress is hindered. This implies that not having safety means that you will not progress and a project is not being done efficiently.
Then in the following two blanks, how does that imply that safety measures can be consequential and requires a willingness to ignore it or jettison it for the sake of efficiency? Isn’t the sentence already stating that ignoring safety has hindered progress therefore making the entire process less efficient? Shouldn’t it be that even though safety measures can thus be seen as cumbersome, there sometimes requires a willingness to emphasize it? Because if we do not emphasize safety, then the progress will be hindered and not efficient?
