2015年同等学力英语水平考试练习题6，一起来看看！

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，onlive TV.anyonewhodidn’tknowitbeforeshouldhavelearnedthat

bad things can happen. And they are made __3__ worse by our willful blindness to

risk as much as our __4__ to work together before everything goes to hell.

Granted，some amount of delusion (错觉) is probably part of the human

condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the

localsimmediatelywenttowork _ _5_ _，inthesamespot—untiltheywereburied

altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a review of the past year

in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at __6__

themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we __7__ did about the

dangers we face. But it turns __8__ that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy

is __9__ the storm, the quake or the __10__ itself. More often, it is

ourselves.

So what has happened in the year that __11__ the disaster on the Gulf Coast?

In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild

the flood walls. They have got the walls to __12_ they were before Katrina, more

or less.that’snot _ 13 _ _，wecannowsaywithconfidence.butitmaybeall

_ _ 14 _ _ canbeexpectedfromoneyearofhustle (忙。

Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains

to evacuate the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15,000 people

will need a __15__ out. However, state officials have not yet determined where

these people will be taken. The negotiations with neighboring communities are

ongoing and difficult.

1 A) To B) By C) On D) For

2. A) fresh B) obvious C) apparent D) evident

3. A) little B) less C) more D) much

4. A) reluctance B) rejection C) denial D) decline

5. A) revising B) refining C) rebuilding D) retrieving

6. A) preparing B) protesting C) protecting D) prevailing

7. A) never B) ever C) then D) before

8. A) up B) down C) over D) out

9. A) merely B) rarely C) incidentally D) accidentally

10. A) surge B) spur C) surf D) splash

11. A) ensued B) traced C) followed D) occurred

12. A) which B) where C) what D) when

13. A) enough B) certain C) conclusive D) final

14. A) but B) as C) that D) those

15. A) ride B) trail C) path D) track

【参考答案】

1-5 B、a、d、a、c； 6-10 C、b、d、b、A 11-15 C、b、a、c、a

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