He was chosen _________ of the company.

A. manager  　　B.  a manager  　　 C. the manager  　　D. as a manager

 

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A Most Remarkable Oil

　　When Johnson called again, the manager received him very politely.“That is a most remarkable oil you brought us. Mr. Johnson,”he said. Johnson nodded his smooth, dark head. That was something he knew very well.“I've never seen anything like it.”the manager admitted. Johnson nodded again.“No?”he said polity. Then he added,“But I think you will, Sir. A very great deal of it.”He appeared to think for a moment.“I think you will find will be on sale seven, perhaps, eight years from now.”He smiled.

　　The manager thought that was uncertain. He said,“It is bet than our fish oils. I admit that.”“So I am told, sir,”agreed Johnson.

　　“Have you any plans to produce it yourself, manager?”Johnson smiled again.

　　“Would I be showing it to you if I had?”

　　“We might add some chemicals to one of our own fish oils.”said the manager,“It would be expensive to do that, even if you could.”Johnson said gently.“Besides,”he added,“I am told that this oil will be much cheaper than your best fish oils. Cheaper than any vegetable oils, in fact.”

　　“Perhaps,”said the. manager.“Well, I suppose you want to make an arrangement, Mr. Johnson. Shall we discuss it?”

　　“Of course,”said Johnson.“There are two ways of dealing with a situation of this. The usual one is to prevent it altogether at least to delay it as long as possible. That is, of course, the beat way.”The manager nodded. He knew plenty about all that.

　　“But I am so sorry for you, because, you see, that is not possible this time.”The manager had his doubts, but all he said was M Inquiring,“Oh?”

　　“The other way,”continued Johnson,“is to produce yourself before the trouble starts.”

(1)The manager thought of adding chemicals to the fish oil to make it ________.

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A．cheaper than the new oil

B．more quickly

C．more expensive

D．as good as the new oil

(2)Johnson's new oil would be________.

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A．more expensive than fish oil, but better

B．less expensive, and better

C．less expensive, hut not good

D．more expensive, and not so good

(3)Johnson expressed his regret that the manager ________.

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A．could not stop the new oil being made

B．would never know how to make it

C．had spent a lot of money on it

D．didn't know enough about it

(4)Johnson showed his new oil to the manager because he wanted ________.

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A．to produce it himself

B．to prevent it being produced

C．to be paid not to produce it

D．the manager to produce it

阅读理解

　　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? ________

[　　]

A．He was a worker.

B．He was an official.

C．He was a student.

D．He was a business man.

(2)The word“ruin”in the second paragraph means ________.

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(3)As a salesman with the company, Mr. Briggs ________.

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A．visited people to ask them to work with him

B．called on people to make them join the company

C．saw old people in order to help them

D．visited many people so as to offer insurance

(4)What was it that surprised the manager? ________

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A．Mr. Briggs sold life insurance only to 95 people.

B．Mr. Briggs sold insurance only to people of more than 95.

C．Mr. Briggs had ruined the insurance company.

D．Mr. Briggs gave people generous conditions.

(5)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.

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.