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题目内容：

A Charlotte, NC, lawyer bought a box of very rare and expensive cigars, and then insured them against fire among other things．Having smoked his entire great cigars within a month, the lawyer filed claim （索赔） against the insurance company．

In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires"．Of course the insurance company refused to pay, giving the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal way．

The lawyer brought the case to the court and out of everybody’s expectation, he actually won! At the end of the trial the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was crazy．But the judge said that the lawyer held a policy （保险单） from the company in which it had promised that the cigars were insured and that it would insure them against fire．Because the company didn’t say what is considered to be unacceptable fire, it had to pay the claim．

Rather than put up with long and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the punishment and paid $ 15 ,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires．"

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested and accused him of arson （纵火罪）．With his own insurance claim from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was charged with burning his insured possessions on purpose and was sentenced to 24 months in prison and a $ 24,000 fine．

小题1:The lawyer had smoked all the cigars ___．

A．by design

B．by mistake

C．by accident

D．by contract小题2:The proper order of the lawyer’s activities is ___．

a．having the company paying his claim

b．having himself put in prison and fined

c．having smoked all the cigars

d．bringing the company to the court

e．insuring the box of cigars

A．ecabd

B．acebd

C．ecdab

D．cedba小题3:The underlined word "it" in the third paragraph refers to ___．

A．the box of cigars

B．the insurance company

C．the policy

D．the claim小题4:Which of the following sayings is the best suitable for the lawyer?

A．Whoever sits against heaven, it falls in his face．

B．A bad beginning makes a bad ending．

C．Accidents will happen．

D．Even the wise make mistakes sometimes．

最佳答案：

小题1:A

小题1:C

小题1:B

小题1:A

答案解析：

小题1:根据Having smoked his entire great cigars within a month, the lawyer filed claim （索赔） against the insurance company．描述，可知选A。

小题1:根据短文描述，可知正确顺序是，这个律师首先给这些烟投保，然后吸完所有的烟，把公司告上法庭，要求公司赔付，最后被判入狱。故选C。

小题1:联系前文from the company ，可知此处指的是保险公司，故选B。

小题1:这篇短文中的律师构陷一个圈套，想要骗取保险金，最后自己却被投入监狱。故选A，对着天堂吐口水的人,口水掉在那个人的脸上。意思是自作自受。

考点核心：

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