Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company after he left school and went aro
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Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurancecompany(保险公司) afterhe left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them lifeinsurance. One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year,the insurance manager sent for him and said, “Mr. Briggs, I have been lookingat your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing thatsurprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous（宽厚的）conditions? You’ll ruin ourcompany if you go on like that.”
“Oh, no, sir,” answered Mr. Briggs at once,“Before I started work, I looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country during the past tenyears, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”
1. Before he worked in an insurancecompany, what was Mr. Briggs?______.
| A．He was a worker. | B．He was an official. |
| C．He was a student. | D．He was a businessman. |
2.The word “ruin” in the second paragraphmeans .
| A．lose | B．break | C．leave | D．destroy |
3. Which of the following is true accordingto the passage?
| A．Mr. Briggs had studied the figures for deaths for several years. |
| B．Mr. Briggs began to look at the figures after he started work. |
| C．A great number of very old people die every year. |
| D．The number of the very old people who died every year is small. |
试题答案
【答案】
1.C
2.D
3.D
【解析】略