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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)英语知识运用分类模拟题75 Use of English Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. 1 that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still 2 in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on 3 TV. Anyone who didnt know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made 4 worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our 5 to work together before everything goes to hell.  Granted, some amount of delusion is probably part of the 6 condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work ()7 , in the same spot—until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a 7 of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at 8 themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we 9 did about the dangers we face. But it turns 10 that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is 11 the storm, the quake or the 12 itself. More often, it is ourselves. So what has happened in the year that 13 the disaster on the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the floodwalls. They have got the walls to 14 they were before Katrina, more or less. Thats not 15 , we can now say with confidence. But it may be all 16 can be expected from one year of hustle.  Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to 17 the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15,000 people will need a 18 out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The 19 with neighboring communities are ongoing and difficult. 1.A.ToB.By