The other lesson is that rare risks do hide and can spring up with little or no warning, and few of us are prepared for those. Remember the East Coast earthquake last week?

　　It might have been annoying to wait in line for hours for those extra D batteries or food supplies, but it was careful to do so, and it's a good idea to keep them on hand. Just because a risk might not be staring us in the face or feel all that scary, it doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense to be ready. Just in case.

　　1．From the passage, we can know that Irene ________.

　　A．is the way people respond to risk

　　B．is the order to evacuate or shut down mass transit systems

　　C．was the name of a hurricane

　　D．was the author of the passage

　　2．The underlined sentence “it's staring us in the face” in the fourth paragraph probably means ________.

　　A．we are faced with risk that is unavoidable

　　B．we'll have to take a risk

　　C．we are likely to experience risk

　　D．we are at risk of suffering property losses

　　3．According to the passage, one of the lessons learnt from this storm is ________.

　　A．people fear the storm more than they need to

　　B．a dangerous storm will become less damaging if forecast accurately

　　C．people are always prepared for risks that happen without warning

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