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The best title for the passage may be ________.

A. Garbage and the Earth
B. Fossil Fuel and Carnage
C. Land and Garbage
D. Garbage—Energy Source

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We must be careful with fire, or it________.

A. will die
B. will warm our houses
C. might bum us
D. won't help us

Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope (绳子) and brought fire down.
Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴) . Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can bum a piece of paper and then it might bum a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. (80) Fires need oxygen(氧气). Without oxygen they will die. Cover a fire with water, sand, or sometimes with your coat. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it. Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will bum you.
How did people begin to use fire?

A. Not everybody knows how people began to use fire.
B. Nobody knows how to make a fire.
C. It is an Australian who started a fire.
D. We are not sure how people began to use fire.

Do you know insurance(保险)? Buying insurance is a (56) by which people can protect themselves (57) large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay (58) sums of money (59) an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only (60) will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes (61) of the sums of money it has collected.
The first modem fire insurance company was (62) in London, England, in 1666.A great fire had just (63) most of the city, and people wanted to protect against (64) losses. The fire company grew rapidly. (65) , other companies were founded in other areas.
Benjamin Franklin helped form. the first fire insurance company in America in 1752.He also (66) a new kind of insurance for (67) . The new insurance would offer protection against the loss of crops (68) storm.
In 1759, Benjamin Franklin helped start (69) new insurance. This company, which offered (70) insurance, collected some money (71) from different men. Although a man died, his family was given a large sum of money. Today, this company is (72) in business.
Over the years, people have (73) from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from (74) accidents as car, plane crashes. Tomorrow, almost everyone has (75) kind of insurance.
(71)

A. idea
B. sole
C. thought
D. means

—How's your brother these days? —He hasn't been very well just recently. —________. What's

A. I'll be pleased to hear you ask after him
B. I'm sorry, to hear that
C. That's not too bad
D. I'll tell him what you said

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