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Key to Exercise in Reading Course Lesson One I. READING COMPREHENSION A. Answer the following questions or complete the following statements. 1. B (Years before the Deepwater Horizon rig blew, BP was developing a reputation as an oil company that took safety risks to save money.) 2. C (None other than Joe Barton, a Republican congressman from Texas and a global warming skeptic…none other than: used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing 正是，恰是) 3. D (For all the criticism BP executives may deserve, they are far from the only people to struggle with such low-probability, high-cost events. Nearly everyone does.) Lesson One READING COMPREHENSION 4. B (When an event is difficult to imagine, we tend to underestimate its likelihood. This is the proverbial black swan.) 5. C (After the 9/11 attacks, Americans canceled plane trips and took to the road. There were no terrorist attacks in this country in 2002, yet the additional driving apparently led to an increase in traffic fatalities.) 6. B (When the stakes are high enough, it falls to government to help its citizens avoid these entirely human errors. The market, left to its own devices, often cannot do so.) 7. D (Federal law helped them underestimate the costs.) Lesson One READING COMPREHENSION 8. A (The big financial risk is no longer a housing bubble. Instead, it may be the huge deficits that the growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will cause in coming years—and the possibility that lenders will eventually become nervous about extending credit to Washington.) 9. A (Nothing like that has ever happened before. Even imagining it is difficult. It is much easier to hope that the odds of such an outcome are vanishingly small. In fact, it’s only natural to have this hope. But that doesn’t make it wise.) 10. D (the article) Lesson One II. VOCABULARY A. 1. C　　2. B　　3. C　　4. B　　5. A 6. D　　7. D　　8. D　　9. C　 10. A B. 1. cap 2. In the wake of 3. proverbial 4. stem from 5. odds 6. given