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Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has
Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has
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Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them.【C1】______ that logic, 2006’should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still【C2】______ in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U. S. history, on【C3】______ TV. Anyone who didn’t know it before should have learned that bad things can hap pen. And they are made【C4】______ worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our【C5】______ to work together before everything goes to hell;
Granted, some amount of delusion.(错觉) is probably part of the【C6】______ condition. In A. D. 63.
Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake and the locals immediately went to work【C7】______ , in the same spot until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a 【C8】______ of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at 【C9】 themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we 【C10】______ did about the dangers we face. But it turns 【C11】______ that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is 【C12】______ the storm, the quake or the【C13】 ______ itself. More often, it is ourselves.
So what has happened in the year that【C14】______ the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild tile flood walls. They have got the walls to 【C15】______ they were before Katrina, more or less. That’s not【C16】______ , we can now say with confidence. But it may be all 【C17】______ can be expected from one year of hustle(忙碌).
Meanwhite, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to【C18】______the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15,000 people will need a【C19】______ out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The【C20】______ with neighboring communities are ongoing and difficult. [br] 【C2】
选项
A、fresh
B、obvious
C、apparent
D、evident
答案
A
解析
be fresh in one’s mind表示“……在……脑海中记忆犹新”,这里填人fresh符合句意,其他三个选项都表示“明显的”。
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