课时作业32　Robots

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　(2017·山东省菏泽市月考)

　　Many of the 85 million people in Irene's path—from the Carolinas to Maine—had not experienced hurricanes, or had only been through storms that were weaker, smaller and less damaging. For those unfamiliar with severe hurricanes, Irene was either abstract or not particularly frightening, something to get excited about more than to fear.

　　Given that the way we perceive(感觉) and respond to risk is affective—not merely objectively analytical, but the sum of the facts and how scary those facts feel—it was likely that many people might be ignorant of the storm's threat.

　　So it was heartening to see how many did in fact take the warnings to heart and prepared. The long lines at grocery stores, the high demand for batteries and bottled water, and even the patience and understanding about local government orders to evacuate(撤离) or shut down mass transit systems, show that people took the potential danger seriously.

　　There are two possible lessons from this storm. As much as our affective risk perception system can sometimes produce a dangerous “perception gap” between our fears and the facts—when we sometimes fear more than we need to, or less than we should—it's also reasonably good at recognizing risk when it's_staring_us_in_the_face. Though most of us didn't lose power, we know that 7 million people did. Though most of us did not suffer property damage, we know that millions did. Most of us did not lose loved ones, but we know that at least 21 families did. We know hurricanes can be dangerous, even if for many of us this one wasn't.

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