首页
登录
职称英语
Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has
Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has
游客
2024-04-20
16
管理
问题
Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. By that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9 - 11 still【C1】______in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in US history, on live TV. Anyone who didn’t know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made much worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our【C2】______to work together before everything goes to hell.
Granted, some amount of delusion(错觉)is probably part of the【C3】______condition. In A. D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work 【C4】______, in the same spot—until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a【C5】______of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at protecting themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we ever did about the dangers we face. But it turns out that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is【C6】______the storm, the quake or the surge itself. More often, it is ourselves.
So what has happened in the year that【C7】______the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineer has worked day and night to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to where they were before Katrina, more or less.
That’s not enough, we can now say with confidence. But it may be all that can be expected from one year of hustle(忙碌).
Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to【C8】______the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 150 000 people will need a【C9】______out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The 【C10】______with neighboring communities are ongoing and difficult.
A)conventions F)merely K)rebuilding
B)evacuate G)natural L)reluctance
C)followed H)negotiations M)review
D)fresh I)occurred N)revising
E)human J)rarely O)ride [br] 【C3】
选项
答案
E
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3563706.html
相关试题推荐
Humansarehavingahardenoughtimecopingwiththenaturalvariabilityin
Humansarehavingahardenoughtimecopingwiththenaturalvariabilityin
Humansarehavingahardenoughtimecopingwiththenaturalvariabilityin
Historically,humansgetseriousaboutavoidingdisastersonlyafteronehas
Historically,humansgetseriousaboutavoidingdisastersonlyafteronehas
Historically,humansgetseriousaboutavoidingdisastersonlyafteronehas
Historically,humansgetseriousaboutavoidingdisastersonlyafteronehas
Historically,humansgetseriousaboutavoidingdisastersonlyafteronehas
[originaltext]Americansaresufferingfromaserioussleepdeficitasthey
[originaltext]Naturaldisastersaffectpeopleatalllevels.(20)Theexperienc
随机试题
Heis______asa"bellyacher"—he’salwayscomplainingaboutsomething.A、whoi
[originaltext]M:Doyouwanttoturnontheairconditioneroropenthewindow?
Whichofthefollowinginfinitivesfunctionsasanif-clause?A、Tobeagoodciti
[originaltext]M:Areyougoingtothemoviestonight?W:I’mafraidnot.Istil
根据植物新品种保护条例的规定,下列关于植物新品种权的无效的说法正确的是()。A.
某电路的拓扑图如图,若仍选支路集{1,2,5,8}为树,则含连支3的基本回路是(
豆浆含钙量与牛奶相近,老年人可用豆浆代替牛奶( )。
A.黄芩B.栀子C.知母D.龙胆草E.板蓝根具有改善学习记忆作用的清热药是()
患者女,46岁。GP,因侵蚀性葡萄胎入院治疗。检查:血压100/65mmHg,呼
以()为导向的薪酬结构易使员工只重视眼前效益,不重视长期发展。A.绩效 B.
最新回复
(
0
)