Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks (骗子). As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989, he ended his work there disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lust for money. "They’re taught that profit is all that matters," he says. "Many schools don’t even offer ethics (伦理学) courses at all."Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students. "By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest," he wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these "business-leaders-to-be." "I really feel like ! failed them," he says. "If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them."Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished. What he found wasn’t encouraging. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom--and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says there’s much about business schools that he’d like to change. "A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves," Etzioni says. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head. And because of what he’s seen taught in business schools, he’s not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. "In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools, I suspect," says Etzioni.Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leader ship. "People with poor motives will always exist," he says, "Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity." Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble. His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his longstanding messages about business ethics. Why did Amitai Etzioni say "I really feel like I fail. ed them" (Line 4, Para. 2)?()
A. He was unable to alert his student to corporate malpractice.
B. He didn't teach his students to see business in new and different ways.
C. He could not get his students to understand the importance of ethics in business.
D. He didn't offer courses that would meet the expectations of the business-leaders-to-be.
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In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the body's system for reacting to things that can harm us--the so-called fight-or-flight response. "An animal that can't detect danger can't stay alive," says Joseph LeDoux. Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for processing information about potential threats. At its core is a cluster of neurons (神经元) deep in the brain known as the amygdala (扁桃核).LeDoux studies the way animals and humans respond to threats to understand how we form memories of significant events in our lives. The amygdala receives input from many parts of the brain, including regions responsible for retrieving memories. Using this information, the amygdala appraises a situation--I think this Charging dog wants to bite me and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body. These signals produce 'the familiar signs of distress: trembling, perspiration and fast-moving feet, just t5 name three.This fear mechanism is critical to the survival of all animals, but no one can say for sure whether beasts other than humans know they're afraid. That is, as LeDoux says, "if you put that system into a brain that has consciousness, then you get the feeling of fear. 'Humans, says Edward M. Hallowell, have the ability to call up images of bad things that happened in the past and to anticipate future events. Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.That's not necessarily a bad thing, says Hallowell. "When used properly, worry is an incredible device," he says. After alit a little healthy worrying is okay if it leads to constructive action--like having a doctor look at that weird spot on your back.Hallowell insists, though, that there's a right way to worry. "Never do it alone, get the facts and then make a plan," he says. Most of us have survived a recession, so we're familiar With the belt tightening strategies needed to survive a slump.Unfortunately, few of us have much experience dealing with the threat Of terrorism, so it's been difficult to get facts about how we should respond. That's why Hallowell believes it was okay for people to indulge some extreme worries last fall by asking doctors for Cipro (抗炭疽菌的药物) and buying gas masks. From the studies conducted by LeDoux we learn that ().
A. reactions of humans and animals to dangerous situations are often unpredictable
B. memories of significant events enable people to control fear and distress
C. people's unpleasant memories are derived from their feelings of fear
D. the amygdala plays a vital part in human and animal responses to potential danger
Food that is rich In organic matter ______.
A. has been nourished by' fertilizers
B. contains vegetable matter that has not been consumed
C. has had chemicals and fertilizer added to it
D. contains large quantities of vitamins
动物原料中的胶原分子的热分解物称为( )
A. 琼脂
B. 明胶
C. 皮冻
D. 果冻
下列对桥梁石砌墩台砌筑方法的叙述有误的是( )。
A. 填腹石的分层高度应与镶面石相同
B. 同一层石料及水平灰缝的厚度要均匀一致
C. 砌石顺序为先镶面,再角石,后填腹
D. 砌石灰缝应互相垂直