2020年12月四级 第1套 Section A 选词填空

Trust is fundamental to life. If you can't trust anything, life becomes intolerable. You can't have relationships without trust, let alone good ones.

In the workplace, too, trust is __26__. An organization without trust will be full of fear and __27__. If you work for a boss who doesn't trust their employees to do things right, you'll have a __28__ time. They'll be checking up on you all the time, correcting "mistakes" and __29__ reminding you to do this or that. Colleagues who don't trust one another will need to spend more time __30__ their backs than doing any useful work.

Organizations are always trying to cut costs. Think of all the additional tasks caused by lack of trust. Audit (审计) departments only exist because of it. Companies keep large volumes of __31__ because they don't trust their suppliers, their contractors or their customers. Probably more than half of all administrative work is only there because of an ever-existing sense that " you can't trust anyone these days. " If even a small part of such valueless work could be __32__, the savings would run into millions of dollars.

All this is extra work we __33__ onto ourselves because we don't trust people—the checking, following through, doing things ourselves because we don't believe others will do them __34__ or at all. If we took all that away, how much extra time would we suddenly find in our life? How much of our work __35__ would disappear?