Question

To participate in sports where risk is involved, one needs to ______.

Options

• hide one’s fears from the public

• seek out causes that threaten us

• to make a public display of fear

• raise our threshold of fear

Answer 1

To participate in sports where risk is involved, one needs to raise our threshold of fear.

Explanation:

The passage explains that repeated exposure to fearful situations reduces the fear response and makes participants more familiar with danger. This is closest to raising one’s threshold of fear.