单选题 Do you know insurance (保险)? Buying insurance is a means by which people can protect themselves 1 large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay 2 sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only 3 will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out of the sums of money it has collected.
The first modern fire insurance company was 4 in London, England, in 1666. A great fire had just 5 most of the city, and people wanted to protect against 6 losses. The fire company grew rapidly. Soon, other companies were founded in other areas.
Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752. He also 7 a new kind of insurance for farmers. The new insurance would offer protection against the loss of crops by storm.
In 1759, Benjamin Franklin helped start 8 new insurance. This company, which offered life insurance, collected some money regularly from different men. Although a man died, his family was given a large sum of money. Today, this company is still in business.
Over the years, people have 9 from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from such accidents as car, plane crashes. Tomorrow, almost everyone has 10 kind of insurance.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】四个选项都可修饰可数名词。few“几乎没有”，表示否定；quite a few“相当多”；a few“少数几个”；many“许多”。因为文中出现了only，就说明“有”，但“不多”，所以选C。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】form“形成，组建”；recognize“认识到，认出，识别出”；found“建立”，但可惜的是该词是原形，没有用过去分词，与原句中的“was”构成被动语态；而come into being“产生”没有被动语态。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】destroy表示“破坏，毁坏，消灭”，程度较深，一般无法挽救；injure通常指“人受伤”；hurt往往指“(人心理、感情)受到伤害”；harm“损害，伤害”，但此词比destroy程度轻很多。1666年伦敦的那场大火在历史上都是罕见的，所以该用destroyed。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】another“又一，再一”，修饰名词单数。前面有了一项火灾保险，又制定了一项新的保险应用another来表示。other往往修饰复数名词，表示“其他的”；the other往往和one相搭配，表示“一个…，另一个…”；others则表示“其他人，其他物”，是复数，后不能再跟名词。