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Do you know insurance (保险)? Buying insurance is a means by which people can protect themselves【C1】______large losses. Protection
Do you know insurance (保险)? Buying insurance is a means by which people can protect themselves【C1】______large losses. Protection
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2018-02-03
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Do you know insurance (保险)? Buying insurance is a means by which people can protect themselves【C1】______large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay【C2】______sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only【C3】______will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out of the sums of money it has collected.
The first modern fire insurance company was【C4】______in London, England, in 1666. A great fire had just【C5】______most of the city, and people wanted to protect against【C6】______losses. The fire company grew rapidly. Soon, other companies were founded in other areas.
Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752. He also【C7】______a new kind of insurance for farmers. The new insurance would offer protection against the loss of crops by storm.
In 1759, Benjamin Franklin helped start【C8】______new insurance. This company, which offered life insurance, collected some money regularly from different men. Although a man died, his family was given a large sum of money. Today, this company is still in business.
Over me years, people have【C9】______from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from such accidents as car, plane crashes. Tomorrow, almost everyone has【C10】______kind of insurance.
【C5】
选项
A、injured
B、hurt
C、destroyed
D、harmed
答案
C
解析
destroy表示“破坏,毁坏,消灭”,程度较深,一般无法挽救;injure通常指“人受伤”;hurt往往指“(人心理、感情)受到伤害”;harm“损害,伤害”,但此词比destroy程度轻很多。1666年伦敦的那场大火在历史上都是罕见的,所以该用destroyed。
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成人本科学位英语
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