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I. Answer the following questions:
What does the word "risk" mean
Does the risk imply an outcome which is favorable
3. What does this situation imply where a child is playing in the middle of a busy road
4. How do you understand the word "abstract"
5. What are the three components in the meaning of risk
Find the word in the text that means:
to express indirectly _________
to appear _________
to fall down _________
danger _________
to represent a meaning _________
A word may have more than one meaning. Its meaning depends on the way it is used. Choose the correct meaning in the text.
leave
to go away
to allow to remain
to fail to take or bring
produce
to offer for examination or consideration
to grow or supply
to make something from materials
run
to move on one's legs at a speed faster than walking
to control
to pass
run through
to read or examine quickly
to pass or draw right through
to repeat for practice
case
a single example
a combination of events
a large box
IV. Say "yes" or "no" in the following sentences according to the text:
( ) 1. Risk implies some form of uncertainty about an outcome which is favorable to us.
( ) 2. Risk is unpredictability-the tendency that actual results may differ from predicted results.
( ) 3. Uncertainty is independent on being recognized as existing by people.
( ) 4. The child may escape free of injury when he was playing in the middle of a busy road, but it does not mean that there is no risk.
( ) 5. Uncertainty is connected more to the event itself, rather than to any personal perception of the existence of uncertainty.
Put in the missing word in the blank:

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