L43 Fully insured

新概念英语3 the local authority purchased the dish to be baked for an annual fair and insured it for the trip

L43 Fully insured

• about insurance companies
  • standard practice
    • insuring public
    • private property
  • Other circumstances of insurance
    • hold an open air garden party or a fete in event of bad weather
    • a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship
  • Principle of compensation
    • the bigger the risk an insurance company take, the higher the premium you will have to pay
• something unique about insurance
  • beginning
    • a local authority made the claim to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish
      • the dish was eighteen feet long and six feet wide, and was transported by canal
    • the local authority purchased the dish to be baked for an annual fair and insured it for the trip
  • development
    • shortly after it was launched
      • the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate
    • at the same time
      • teenagers climbed on to the dish and held a litter party of their own, dancing on the dish which couldn′t bear
    • during the party
      • the dish capsized and sank in seven feet of water
  • climax
    • the pie committee telephoned a local garage ower to salvage the pie dish
    • they had little difficulty in finding the dish, but hauling it out of the water was a serious problem
      • the sides of the dish were so smooth
      • it is almost impossible to attach hawsers and chains to rim without damage it
    • salvaging the dish
      • for the first time
        • chains were fixed to one end of the dish, but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water
      • for the second time
        • they fixed heavy metal clamps to both sides of the dish to fasten the chains
        • several minutes later, the dish was successfully hauled above the surface of the water
        • but water streamed over its sides with such force, so there was a danger that the wave would sent the dish plunging into the water again
  • ending
    • by working at tremendous speed, the dish was salvaged on the dry land before the wave returned

L43 Fully insured

• about insurance companies
  • standard practice
    • insuring public
    • private property
  • Other circumstances of insurance
    • hold an open air garden party or a fete in event of bad weather
    • a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship
  • Principle of compensation
    • the bigger the risk an insurance company take, the higher the premium you will have to pay
• something unique about insurance
  • beginning
    • a local authority made the claim to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish
      • the dish was eighteen feet long and six feet wide, and was transported by canal
    • the local authority purchased the dish to be baked for an annual fair and insured it for the trip
  • development
    • shortly after it was launched
      • the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate
    • at the same time
      • teenagers climbed on to the dish and held a litter party of their own, dancing on the dish which couldn′t bear
    • during the party
      • the dish capsized and sank in seven feet of water
  • climax
    • the pie committee telephoned a local garage ower to salvage the pie dish
    • they had little difficulty in finding the dish, but hauling it out of the water was a serious problem
      • the sides of the dish were so smooth
      • it is almost impossible to attach hawsers and chains to rim without damage it
    • salvaging the dish
      • for the first time
        • chains were fixed to one end of the dish, but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water
      • for the second time
        • they fixed heavy metal clamps to both sides of the dish to fasten the chains
        • several minutes later, the dish was successfully hauled above the surface of the water
        • but water streamed over its sides with such force, so there was a danger that the wave would sent the dish plunging into the water again
  • ending
    • by working at tremendous speed, the dish was salvaged on the dry land before the wave returned