She was slim and he liked her that way.
So he called a lawyer. The result was a contract. According to the document, the
fresh-faced bride agreed to pay a fine for each pound she gained in weight, the
money refundable upon its loss. The paper signed, and the wedding went on. This
is a prenuptial agreement—one more indication of the strange pass of marriage in
this most trans- actional decade. You are welcome to marriage, contractual
style, where increasingly detailed le- gal documents spell out everything from
who’ s going to do the dishes to who’ s going to get the house when you
split. This is family planning taken to extreme. Once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist carrying off the latest young cookie, the prenuptial agreement—a written pact between a couple outlining the financial obligation in the event of divorce—i A. is a part of a comedy film B. is something rare C. is something real and becoming common daily D. is ridiculous [单项选择]She was slim and he liked her that way. So he called a lawyer. The result was a contract. According to the document, the fresh-faced bride agreed to pay a fine for each pound she gained in weight, the money refundable upon its loss. The paper signed, and the wedding went on.
This is a prenuptial (婚前的)agreement—one more indication of the strange pass of marriage in this most transactional decade. You are welcome to marriage, contractual style, where increasingly detailed legal documents spell out everything from who’s going to do the dishes to who’s going to get the house when you split. This is family planning taken to extreme. Once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist carrying off the latest young cookie, the prenuptial agreement—a written pact between a couple outlining the financial obligations in the event of divorce—is becoming commonplace in a litigious (爱打官司的),disillusioned and materialistic age in which one in every two marriages is pro A. is a part of a comedy film B. is something rare C. is something real and becoming common daily D. is ridiculous [单项选择]A. She didn’t expect her daughter to sing so well.B. She sings better than her daughter.
C. She doesn’t like her daughter singing. D. She herself probably doesn’t have a good voice. [填空题]If you can make _____ with her, so much the better.
[单项选择]甲、乙两人进行乒乓球比赛,比赛规则为“3局2胜”,即以先赢2局者为胜.根据经验,每局比赛中甲获胜的概率为0.6,则本次比赛甲获胜的概率是()。
A. 0.216 B. 0.36 C. 0.432 D. 0.648 E. 以上答案都不对 [填空题]So I lend her $20 to buy a camera.
So she ______ $20 from me to buy a camera.
[单项选择]The young mother felt so annoyed by her little son that she asked to be left()for a while.
A. behind B. out C. off D. alone 我来回答: 提交
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