(精选)商务英语阅读Unit 7 Security and Insurance课件.ppt

Unit 7 Security and Insurance Teaching aims Text A Text B Supplementary reading Teaching aims: After studying this unit, you will be able to: Have a general knowledge of the security and insurance industry; Have a general knowledge of the newly emerging e-insurance industry; Have a general knowledge of the social security system; be able to utilize useful words and expressions Text A American International Group (AIG): is an American insurance corporation. Its corporate headquarters are located in the American International Building in New York City. The British headquarters office is on Fenchurch Street in London, continental Europe operations are based in La Défense, Paris, and its Asian headquarters office is in Hong Kong. According to the 2008 Forbes Global 2000 list, AIG was once the 18th-largest public company in the world. It was listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average from April 8, 2004 to September 22, 2008. Chubb (CB): is the eleventh largest property and casualty insurer in the world, with over 120 offices located in 29 countries, and offers commercial, specialty, surety, and personal insurance services. As of 2008, the corporation is the 180th largest corporation in the United States. Beginning in 1970, the corporation owned The Chubb Institute, a chain of commercial technical schools which grew out of the company's employee training program, but the schools were sold to the High-Tech Institute in 2004. In 2007, Chubb was named the Readers' Choice winner as "Best Admitted Property/Casualty Insurance Company" by Business Insurance. In 2010 Chubb was number five on Chicago Business "Best Places to Work" list. Zurich Financial Services (ZFSVY): is a major financial services group based in Zürich, Switzerland. Computer Associates (CA): is a multinational computer software corporation headquartered in Islandia, New York. The company develops and markets information technology (IT) management software, which it sells both directly via its sales team a