单项选择题

People usually pay more attention to avoiding disasters after they have been struck by them. (26) this concern, the year 2006 is a milestone for rational behavior. The memory of the violence attack 9/11 is still (27) in American people’s minds. After they saw hurricane Katrina, which is the most serious disaster in U.S. history on (28) TV, those people that didn’t know it before should have assumed that disaster can take place. They are made (29) worse by our wayward fatuity to risk as well as our (30) to work together before the thing goes too bad.
That is true. Some false opinion is probably part of the (31) condition. Pompeii was badly destroyed by a quake in A. D. 63. However, the local people went to work (32) quickly until they were buried together by a volcano eruption 16 years later in the same spot. However, a (33) of the past history of disaster shows that modern Americans are extremely bad at (34) themselves from threats. We can know more than we (35) did about the dangers. But it turns (36) that when encountering crisis, in most cases, it is ourselves (37) the storm, the quake or the (38) is our greatest enemy.
Then what has taken place in the period (39) the disaster on the Gulf Coast The Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans has worked hard to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to (40) they. were before Katrina. Now we can say confidently that it’s not (41) . However it could be all (42) can be expected from the hard work.
Those New Orleans officials have drafted a plan to use buses and trains to (43) the sick and the disabled. It has been estimated that about 15,000 people could need a (44) out. But the state officials have not decided yet where these people will be taken. The (45) with neighboring communities are continuing and hard.

43（）。

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