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考研英语真题：英语二阅读文章 2017 考研英语二阅读文章源文 源于The Christian Science Monitor July 1, 2016 Upton understands the value of that connection. During her early days with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), veterans would tell war stories of huge fires that happened once in a career, she recalls. “But in my generation, those of us who ’ve come up through the ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s … we feel like we don ’t have the license to use the word ‘unprecedented ’ any more. We ’ve seen it all in the last few years,” she says. “I ’ve probably had 15 once-in-a-career fires.” And people caused most of them, Ms. Upton says. About 90 percent of all fires in California can be traced to human activity, whether it ’s a stove left on or a campfire left burning. Which is why public education has been Upton ’s main goal since 2008, when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed her Cal Fire ’s deputy communications director. The department has since made strides, playing major role in launching state and nationalcampaigns that underscore the public ’s role in fire safety. But people ’s tendency to put danger out of their minds until it ’s too late continues to pose serious challenges, Upton says. “This is going to sound cold. But if someone chooses to live in a rur al are and continues to not be responsive to [fire-safety] education, sadly, the worst punishment they ’re going to get is they ’re going to lose their home in a fire,” she says. A paradigm shift, some researchers hope, can address that gap between education and action. Environmental policy specialist Ray Rasker, for instance, envisions whole communities designed around the concept of fire safety, and a slate of fire-prevention policies at the local, state, and national level. “What we ’re telling the public now is, ‘Reduce the risk of