Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. 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 looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous（宽厚的）conditions? You’ll ruin our company 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 ten years, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”
1. Before he worked in an insurance company, what was Mr. Briggs?______.
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A．He was a worker. |
B．He was an official. |
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C．He was a student. |
D．He was a businessman. |
2.The word “ruin” in the second paragraph means .
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A．lose |
B．break |
C．leave |
D．destroy |
3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
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A．Mr. Briggs had studied the figures for deaths for several years. |
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B．Mr. Briggs began to look at the figures after he started work. |
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C．A great number of very old people die every year. |
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D．The number of the very old people who died every year is small. |
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
If you think you are sick, you are sick no matter what 41 says. 42 , if you believe in your doctor, and if he tells that you are going to feel better, you probably will. The 43 of the mind on the body does exist and sometimes can be powerful. It exists whether one is 44 of it or not.
Take the 45 of Mrs. Green, for example. She was unable to get to sleep at night and was too tired during the day to do some simple things that she 46 enjoy doing. She had headaches more often which 47 her from reading or watching TV. The more she thought about her conditions, 48 she felt. At last she went to 49 her doctor, whom she had known for years. The doctor listened to her and gave her a very 50 examination. Then he said to her, “ There is nothing 51 wrong with you physically, but I accept the fact 52 you don’t feel well. I’m going to give you some pills that should help. I want you to 53 one after dinner and one half an hour 54 you go to bed tonight. Call me tomorrow and tell me 55 you feel.
56 Mrs. Green telephoned, “Doctor, I had the first 57 night’s sleep in two months. What is in this pills 58 ?” The doctor said, “It is an old formula（配方） I have 59 for years. Just 60 taking them for a week.” Turning to the nurse, he said, “It’s wonderful what a little baking soda（苏打） can do.”
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Madame Michel found herself in an position, and therefore she felt rather_________. .
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A．embarrassing; embarrassed |
B．embarrassed; embarrassed |
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C．embarrassing; embarrassing |
D．embarrassed; embarrassing |
We were about to go outing______ it began to snow heavily.
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A．when |
B．while |
C．as |
D．until |
If you have got _____temperature without coughing, perhaps you have caught _____cold. Just stay in _____bed. Don’t think that you have got SARS?
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A．the; the; / |
B．a; a; / |
C．a; the; the |
D．a; a; the |
Fortunately, the illness is fully treatable if _____ within ten days.
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A．being found |
B．find |
C．to be found |
D．found |
