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根据短文内容,回答题。Do you know insurance (保险)? Buying insurance is a means by which people can protect themselves ____51____ large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay ____52____ sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only ____53____ 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 modem fire insurance company was ____54____ in London, England, in 1666. A great
fire had just ____55____ most of the city, and people wanted to protect against ____56____ losses. The fire company grew rapidly. Soon, other companies were founded in other areas.
Benjamin Franklin helped form the first tire insurance company in America in 1752. He also ____57____ 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 ____58____ 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 ____59____ from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from such accidents as car, plane crashes. Tomorrow, almost everyone has ____60____ kind of insurance.
_______ A.against
B.to
C.from
D.on
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