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Buying insurance (保险) is a way in which people can protect themselves against large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay small sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only a few will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out of the small sums of money it has collected.
The first modern fire insurance company was formed in London, England, in the 1760s. A great fire had just destroyed most of the city, and people wanted protection against further losses. The first company grew rapidly. Soon other companies were founded in other areas.
Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752, and then a new kind of insurance for farmers was suggested. The new insurance would provide protection against the loss of crops from storms.
Later on another new insurance company was started in America. This company, which offered life insurance, collected small sums of money regularly from many different men. If a man died, his family was given a large sum of money.
Over the years, insurance companies have offered new kinds of insurance protection. The new kinds of insurance cover losses from such accidents as car and plane crashes. Today, most people have some kind of insurance.
小题1:Who helped set up the first company in America? | A．Benjamin Franklin. | B．Businessmen. | | C．The first insurance company in London. | D．Farmers. |
小题2:Insurance means ____. | A．Protection against the losses from the storms | | B．protection against illness | | C．Protection against accidents | | D．all of the above |
小题3:The first modern insurance company offered ____. | A．life insurance | B．fire insurance | C．a new kind of insurance | D．both A and B |
小题4:Why do most people buy some kind of insurance today? | A．Insurance will keep their homes from burning. | | B．People can protect themselves against large losses. | | C．Insurance will pay for safety. | | D．The insurance companies grow rapidly. |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:B |
解析
试题分析：本文主要介绍了保险业的诞生发展以及人们买保险的原因。现在有很多人买保险的原因是在遇到巨大损失时，有保障。
小题1:细节题，根据Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752, and then a new kind of insurance for farmers was suggested.可知在美国，本杰明.富兰克林帮助建立了第一个公司， 故选A。
小题2:细节题，根据Buying insurance (保险) is a way in which people can protect themselves against large losses.以及全文内容，可知保险可以保障人们暴风雨造成的损失，疾病的赔偿以及事故的赔偿，故选D。
小题3:细节题。根据The first modern fire insurance company was formed in London, England, in the 1760s.可知现代第一个保险公司提供火灾保险。故选B。
小题4:细节题。根据Buying insurance (保险) is a way in which people can protect themselves against large losses.可知现在有很多人买保险的原因是在遇到巨大损失时，有保障。故选B 。 |
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Pottery is the name given to all kinds of useful or artistic objects made from clay. Pottery can be plates or water pots or baskets. Pottery can be large or small, fancy or plain. Pottery is part of the large family of ceramics（陶器）.Ceramics are synthetic materials. For example, bricks and tiles (瓦片) are both ceramics.
How is pottery made? First, a potter takes some clay. Clay is a soft, red material from the earth. It looks a little like red dirt, but it"s very different. Clay is thick and rich. Wet clay can be worked into any shape. When the clay dries, it will keep that shape. The potters takes some clay and pushes and squeezes（挤压）it until it is soft and smooth. After that, the clay can be shaped into anything. There are several ways to shape clay. Sometimes potters use their hands. Sometimes they use a special wheel. They place the clay in the center of a round, flat wheel. The wheel moves very fast, and the potter shapes the clay.
After the potter has shaped the clay, it can be decorated(装饰). Potters use glaze, which is a kind of paint, to decorate their work. Some glazes are very simple. Other glazes have beautiful colors and designs. The glaze is not just beautiful. It is also useful. The glaze makes the pottery smooth and waterproof. Potters also make some decorative lines and designs on the surface. After it is decorated, the clay must be baked, or fired, in a special oven.
Baking the clay at very high temperature makes it hard and strong. Firing also makes the glaze stick to the pottery. When the firing is over, the potter carefully removes the pottery from the oven and lets it cool slowly. If it cools too quickly, it could crack and break.
Since pottery is waterproof, it is very popular for dishes. You can find examples of pottery in almost any home. But pottery can also be found in museums. Some pieces of pottery are valuable and beautiful pieces of art.
小题1:It is possible that ceramics are materials of _______ . | A．metal | B．plastic | C．wood | D．earth |
小题2:The word "waterproof" means _______ . | A．能盛水的 | B．防水的 | C．溶解于水的 | D．吸水性强的 |
小题3:Which statement is NOT true according to the passage? | A．Plates, water pots and bowls are all examples of pottery. | | B．Wet clay can be made into anything of different shapes by the hands or a special wheel. | | C．The clay becomes smooth and waterproof because of the glaze. | | D．After the firing in high temperature, pottery is easy to break. |
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People in cities all over the world shop in supermarkets. When you enter the supermarket, you see shelves full of food. You walk in the aisles, pushing your shopping cart. You probably hear soft, slow music in the supermarket. This kind of music is playing to relax you and make you walk slowly. Thus, you will probably stay longer and buy more food.
Where do you go in the supermarket when you first arrive? Many people go to the meat section first. This area of the store has many different kinds of meat. Some kinds are expensive and others are not. Usually, some kinds of meat are on sale. So it has a special low price. The manager of the store knows where the customers usually enter the meat section. The meat on sale is usually at the other end of the section, away from where the customers enter. If you want to buy this specially priced meat, you have to walk by the more expensive meat first. Maybe you will see something that you want to buy before you reach the cheaper, inexpensive meat. Then you will spend more money in the meat section.
The diary section sells milk that is low in fat. Some supermarkets sell three different containers（包装盒）of low-fat milk. Each container looks different, but each contains the same product. One says "1% fat", one says "99% fat free" and one says "low-fat" in big letters and "1%"in very small letters. If you look carefully you can see that all the milk has the same amount of fat, and each container is the same size. The prices of all these three should be the same. However, in many stores these three containers of milk would each have a different price. The store will make more money if a customer chooses the milk that costs the most.
Most of the food in supermarkets is very attractive. People often stop to look at the products in attractive containers. But remember, many products will say, "Buy me!". Stop and think which ones are the best value for your money.
小题1:The word "aisles" in the first paragraph means _______ . | A．the entrance of a supermarket | | B．the place where you pay for your goods | | C．the way between the shelves | | D．the place where the special priced meat is on sale. |
小题2:When you walk by the expensive meat, _______ . | A．maybe you will buy some | B．you will not look at it | | C．you will buy diary products | D．maybe it is on sale |
小题3:The three different kinds of low-fat milk _______ . | A．contain three different amount of milk | | B．contain three different kinds of milk | | C．each have the same amount of fat | | D．are all the same price |
小题4:Supermarket managers make the food attractive so _______ . | A．it is cheap | | B．the customers will buy more | | C．it is expensive | | D．it is in the diary section |
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It was the end of the school term and my son Tom had less than three months left before he would finish his six years at high school. During this time he had developed a love for basketball. Sadly, because of my work over the last twelve months, I had only been able to attend a few of his games; however, I was determined to get to his last game for the school term.
Tom’s team came out in the first 10 minutes with a burst of goals that saw them leading by just over 20 points at the end of the first half. The second half changed as the other team quickly played themselves back into the game. Tom’s team started to miss an increasing number of shots. It was at that point that the coach called his first time out.
The noise of the spectators (观众) became quiet as the coach spoke to them. He had the team standing in a half circle, but he squatted (蹲) down, looking up at them and fiving some very calm and clear instructions on what they needed to do in the last couple of minutes. As he stood up to allow the team to return to the court, I saw him give some further words of encouragement to all of them.
You could see that he knew that the team was fighting to save the game and that he needed to lift them up. By squatting down he placed himself in a position where he was talking up to them, rather than down or at them, and as the players went back onto the court his words of encouragement served to lift their energy and spirits.
Well, Tom’s team went on to win the final by 5 points. As I drove away I thought about what can happen to us all in our everyday life. One of my favourite quotes is about the half filled glass of water --- “Is it half full or is it half empty?” Like the coach, the answer to this quote all depends on how you look at things.
小题1:Why did the writer come to see his son play basketball?| A．Because his son would graduate from high school. | | B．Because he felt sorry for never watching his son play. | | C．Because it was a final his son played a key role in. | | D．Because he had a strong interest in basketball himself. |
小题2:By squatting down, the coach wanted to _____ .| A．talk about what the players were doing wrong | | B．make the players feel better | | C．prevent spectators from hearing what he said | | D．show his anger at the bad performance of the players |
小题3:What is the writer’s attitude towards the coach?| A．Negative. | B．Supportive. | C．Interested. | D．Unconcerned. |
小题4:What can we infer from the passage?| A．A father should care about his son at school. | | B．Playing hard is rewarded with a close match. | | C．What a coach says has the most influence on players. | | D．Looking at things positively is important in hard times. |
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Have you heard about Post Office Cats in Britain? They are mouse hunters. The post office has actually employed cats since 1868. They are not employed to sort or deliver mail, of course, but to protect the mail and keep the population of mice under control. They make sure your morning post arrives free from damages caused by rats and mice.
London post offices were the first to try out the experiment. Within a few months the population of mice had shrunk sharply. Other post offices all over the country were soon using cats in the war against rats and mice as well. Within ten years the pay of the cats was improved from one and a half old pence a day to six or nine pence a day. Now the average rate of pay is about a few pounds a month.
Some of the hard-working cats have become quite famous. In 1980, a cat named Lucky stopped an attempted robbery in a Worcestershire post office on her own. As the two burglars made their way in through the window, Lucky started an attack and they fled empty-handed. Another excellent cat was Jerry, of Earls Court post office in London. He served the building for 16 years and was on duty for 24 hours every day. He drove all the mice away.
However, there are fewer cats employed by the post office than at any time in the past. With the faster movement of the mail and better surroundings, post office cats are not always needed. But many post offices still employ them and they become great friends with the postmen. According to the post office, there is no plan for their services to be discontinued in the foreseeable future.
小题1:Cats were introduced to British post offices to ________.| A．help sort and deliver mails and papers | | B．guard the building against thieves | | C．keep mails and papers undamaged | | D．search for certain dangers in mails |
小题2:The underlined word “shrunk” in the second paragraph probably means “________”.| A．decreased | B．increased | C．narrowed | D．expanded |
小题3:The cat named Lucky became famous because________.| A．She served the post office for 16 years around the clock. | | B．She alone drove two burglars away from the post office. | | C．She protected mails from being bitten by mice. | | D．She was employed to sort and deliver mail. |
小题4:We may learn from the last paragraph that________.| A．the duty of the cats has been replaced by machines | | B．all the post offices are now completely mice free | | C．cats are now considered of little use in post offices | | D．cats will still be seen in service for quite a long time |
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Among various programs, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime television. But no two shows are more opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of "rubbish talk". The show takes the ever-common talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other people"s lives.
Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes the TV talk show to its top. But Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different quality of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a "final word". He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show"s main audience are middle-class Americans. Most of the people have the time, money and ability to deal with life"s tough problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society.
小题1:Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows are _______.| A．more interesting. | B．unusually popular. | | C．more detailed. | D．more formal. |
小题2:Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear unpleasant, people who watch the shows ________.| A．show disbelief in them. | B．are ready to face up to them. | | C．remain cold to them. | D．are willing to get away from them. |
小题3:Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?| A．A new type of robot. | B．National hatred (憎恨). | | C．Family income planning. | D．Street accident. |
小题4:What is the advantage of the Jerry Springer show?| A．The show exposes the dark sides of society. | | B．The show pours poisonous waste into society. | | C．Jerry sums up (总结) the whole idea of the show. | | D．Jerry talks about the improvement of society. |
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