18. If you want to get enough information about yesterday’s traffic accident within a very short time, you’d better .

A. read the first paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper

B. start from the second paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper

C. look through the whole news report in today’s newspaper

D. talk with people who have seen the accident

19. To interest more people, a news reporter .

A. usually produces amusing news

B. always writes very short news reports

C. often prints pictures to go with the news

D. sometimes provides long and important news

20. This passage mainly talks about .

A. different types of reports B. news reports

C. happenings to people and their surroundings

D. the length of a news report

B

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.”

21. 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 businessman.

22. The word “ruin” in the second paragraph means .

A. lose B. break C. leave D. destroy