必修 5 Unit 3 Life in the future 单元检测卷(时间50分钟;满分100分) 班级_________________姓名_____________考号_________________得分_______________________ I 语言知识及应用 (共两节,满分45分) 第一节 Buying insurance is a 1 by which people can protect themselves 2 large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay 3 sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only 4 will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out or the sums of money it has 5 . The first modern fire insurance company was 6 in London, England in 1666. A great fire had just 7 most of the city, and people wanted protection against 8 losses. The first company 9 rapidly. Soon other companies were founded in other areas. Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752. He also 10 a new kind of insurance for 11 . The new insurance would offer protection against the loss of crops |