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Accidents are caused; they don’t just happen. The reason may be easy to see:
Accidents are caused; they don’t just happen. The reason may be easy to see:
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2025-03-12
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Accidents are caused; they don’t just happen. The reason may be easy to see: a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road, an overloaded truck. But more often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune — frustration, tiredness or just bad temper — that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.
Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.
By definition, an accident is something you can not predict or avoid, and the idea which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused by a minority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.
It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety precautions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are injured from work due to accidents. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment - - noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work. [br] The word "accident-prone"(Para. 2)means______.
选项
A、likely to have accidents
B、injured in accidents
C、possible to die in accidents
D、responsible for road accidents
答案
A
解析
本题属于词汇语义题,提问的是文章第二段中的“accident—prone”表示什么意思。根据文章第二段“...,and we all know people who are accident—prone,so often at odds with them—selves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others”,显然,“accident—prone”后面的句子是对该词的解释说明,我们也知道这样一些人,他们经常和自己赌气或者经常和别人争吵,这些人常会引起交通事故。因此,根据上下文的意思,该词在这里表示“可能会引起事故的”,此外,“prone”表示“易于……的,有……倾向的”,故A)为正确答案。
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