时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语复述材料-第三辑


英语课

  Mr. Bricks 1 got a job with an insurance company after he left school, and went aound visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for this company for about a year, the insurance manager sent to him and said:"Mr Bricks, I have been looking at your records as a salesman in our company, and there is one thing that suprises me about it. Why have you been selling life insurance only to people over 95 years years old? And why you have been giving them such generous 2 conditions? You will ruin our company if you are going to do like that.“ "Oh, no sir", answered Bricks at once". Before I started work, I looked at the figures for deaths in this country during the past 10 years, and I can tell you extremely 3 only few people died at the age of 95 or above each year."

No answer these questions

1. What suprised the manager about Mr. Bricks' work?

2. what did he think the results of Mr. Bricks' behavior will be?

3. What was Mr. Bricks' explanation?

4. What mistake had he made?



1 bricks
n.砖( brick的名词复数 );砖块;积木;可靠的朋友
  • He compounded water, sand and soil and formed bricks. 他用水拌和沙和泥土做成砖块。
  • The United Auto Workers hit the bricks against General Motors. 联合汽车工人工会举行罢工,反对通用汽车公司。
2 generous
adj.慷慨的,大方的,慷慨给予的
  • She was kind and generous.她心地善良,宽容大量。
  • She was generous with her money.她很乐于仗义疏财。
3 extremely
adv.极其,非常,极度
  • The film is extremely good,I just cannot miss it.这部电影太精彩了,我非看不可。
  • The old man was extremely difficult to get along with.这个老人极难相与。
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addititious
adesed
Aeolist
anterior auricular arteries
anti-proliferating cell nuclear antigen antibody
antiphasing
azimuth slew speed
bastard phuisn'e
beatifying
behavior regulation
BFTF
bicycle tire
biologic
blast wall
canthus disease
Cedarmont
Ceyhan River
changeable boring bar
cold as wagon tire
consumption energy
convention date
crematoriums
crest of humerus
democratic personage system
diphtheroid bacillus
distribution factor
dry process indirect method electrostatic copying machine
emendatus
end of tape
endovascular papillary angioendothelioma
ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid
F-VCURVE
fixed loop aerial
flux gate
gaseous arc
half-symmtric unstable resonator
high flow rate
hyperextend
in spades
involutional neurosis
JAPPin'
jarious
job control macro
journal oil
Korsakov's syndrome
Krishna River
la giang
laser or spark perforator
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legitimizations
low-water line
Maybee
McGyverisms
metaloxidesilicon
monthly series
natural failing
net fish
nondeterministic finite state recognizer
normal critical slope
Novoutkinsk
obsolesced
oysterroot
personality pattern
powdered solids
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Pseudophyllidea tapeworm
raking fire
reservable
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rhinonyssid
rotor debarkers
safety physiology
Salina formation
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stone ax(e)
sympathetic ganglion
Tetramitidae
theoretic diagram
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topmast
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triatomid
true bearing rate
Vansant
Vardφ
variable data
vc (vitual circuit)
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w.j
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whiter than white
Wieselburg
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