I. Choose the right word for each blank from the list given below. In today’s fast-paced, much emphasis is placed on the final result of an endeavor. American society places a premium on success; our culture has ___1___ tolerance for failures or losers. Within this cultural framework it sometimes becomes easy to immediately __2___ failures. However, value is not found only in success. ___3___the examples of the Columbia space shuttle disaster demonstrates, events that are not successful still have __4__. When the Columbia space shuttle disintegrated upon reentry, the American people experienced a great ___5__. The failure of NASA engineers to __6___this disaster shocked the nation. ____7__ many people would argue that there is no value in this horrific failure. But the Columbia tragedy led to a complete investigation of the space program. ____8__ in the chain of command and in the entire culture of NASA were exposed. ____9___ the Columbia tragedy, NASA will reexamine its practices and change their ways so something like this doesn’t happen again. Surely, this is a valuable thing to come from a horrible failure. Clearly, there is much value in things that are not successful. The Columbia disaster is __10___ one example of unsuccessful events that led to valuable lessons and changes. There is much to be learned from a failure and those who focus only on success will miss out on valuable lessons.