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 didn’t 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 (错觉) 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 （8） of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at （9）themselves from guaranteed threats, We know more than we （10）did about
A. conventions
B. notifications
C. communications
D. negotiations
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 didn’t 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 (错觉) 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 （8） of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at （9）themselves from guaranteed threats, We know more than we （10）did about
A. fresh
B. obvious
C. apparent
D. evident
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