首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Which is safer—staying home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? Surprisingly, each of these carrie
Which is safer—staying home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? Surprisingly, each of these carrie
admin
2019-08-27
33
问题
Which is safer—staying home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? Surprisingly, each of these carries the same risk, which is very low. However, what about flying compared to working in the chemical industry? Unfortunately, the former is 65 times riskier than the latter! In fact, the accident rate of workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity, and almost as safe as staying at home.
The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby. It is this that makes chemical accidents so newsworthy. Fortunately, they are extremely rare. The most famous ones happened at Texas City (1947), Flixborough (1974), Seveso (1976), Pemex (1984) and Bhopal (1984).
Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small. No one died at Seveso, and only 28 workers at Flixborough. The worst accident of all was Bhopal, where up to 3, 000 were killed. The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552. The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal.
Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger. Thus the Texas City explosion was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate (硝酸铵) , which is safe unless stored in great quantity. The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs. The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep. When the poisonous gas drifted over the town, local leaders were incapable of taking effective action. The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in all overcrowded suburb. The fire set off a chain reaction of exploding storage tanks. Yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode. Had they caught fire, then 3, 000 strong rescue teams and fire fighters would all have died.
Chemical accidents are usually important enough to be reported as news because______.
选项
A、they are very rare
B、they often cause loss of life
C、they always occur in big cities
D、they arouse the interest of all the readers
答案
B
解析
根据文中第二段中的“The trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby.It is this that makes chemical accidents so newsworthy.”可知,化工厂事故经常导致死亡,这是这类事故具有报道价值的原因。据此可知,B项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/2RNYFFFM
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Smoking,whichmaybeapleasureforsomepeople,isaseruioussourceofdiscomfortfortheirfellows.【C1】______,medicalautho
Iamwritingthisathomebecauselastweekmyergonomic(符合人体工程学的)chairattheofficefellapart,unableanylongertobearmyw
Itisimpossibletowhethershe’llbewellenoughtocomehomefromthehospitalnextmonth.
Theswimmingpoolisthechildren’sfavorite______inthesummer.
Intheprivacyofourminds,wealltalktoourselves—aninnermonologuethatseemratherpointless.Asonescientificpaperon
Thereisnodenyingthatstudentsshouldlearnsomethingabouthowcomputerswork,justasweexpectthematleasttounderstand
Inthe______oftheprojectnotbeingasuccess,theinvestorsstandtoloseupto$30million.(2002年上海交通大学考博试题)
TheUniversityinTransformation,editedbyAustralianfuturistsSohailInayatullahandJenniferGidley,presentssome20highly
ChinahostedtheOlympicGamesin2008,thus______herdreamtoberecognizedasoneofthegreatestnationsintheworld.
随机试题
电动葫芦的制动是靠()实现的。
Aresomepeopleborncleverandothersbornstupid?Orisintelligencedevelopedbyourenvironmentandourexperience?Strangel
硫酸镁没有的用途是
女,18岁。5天前出现右下颌智齿冠周炎,已行抗感染治疗3天。检查见开口度正常,第三磨牙正位,远中龈瓣覆盖部分牙面,上颌智齿正位萌出。该患者的最佳处理方法是
关于证据,以下说法正确的是:()
证券分析师不得断章取义或篡改有关信息资料,这是证券投资分析师的( )原则的内涵之一。
先秦诸子百家中,影响最大的自然要数儒、墨、道、法四家。但自秦汉大一统帝国形成之后,它们的命运开始分化:儒家成了中华文化的正统和主流;法家虽在舆论上不大受好评,但实际上主宰了两千年来专制朝廷的庙堂政治;与法家相反,道家则占据了民间社会的广阔天地,成为幽人隐士
实验证明,植物体内含有一种觉察光的蛋白质,可以“分辨”光的强弱。这种能力很可能使植物看到人类视力所看不到的波长,而且具有较高的灵敏度。植物能感觉光照射过来的方向,光使植物知道早上什么时候该醒来,同样也能促使植物额外分泌栎精和堪非醇这两种无色色素,他们能过滤
()是指在通信过程的任意时刻,信息既可由A传到B,又能由B传到A,但只能有一个方向的传输存在。
SERENDIPITOUS:CALCULATION::
最新回复
(
0
)