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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