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 obliga 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]Two years had passed and I found she had ______.
A. a little white hair B. much white hair C. some white hair D. a few white hairs [填空题]We found that she was a clever girl.
We found ______ very ______. [单项选择]What has she found
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Passage Two [单项选择]Passage One
When young women were found to make only 82 percent of what their male peers do just one year out of college, many were at a loss to explain it.
All the traditional reasons put forward to interpret the pay gap—that women fall behind when they leave the workforce to raise kids, for example, or that they don’t seek as many management roles—failed to justify this one. These young women didn’t have kids yet. And because they were just one year removed from their undergraduate degrees, few of these women yet had ,the chance to go after (much less decline) leadership roles.
But there are other reasons why the pay gap remains so persistent. The first is that no matter how many women may be getting college degrees, the university experience is still an unequal one. The second is that our higher education system is not designed to focus on the economic consequences of our students’ years on campus.
Now that women are the majority of college st
A. It does not offer specific career counseling to women. B. It does not consider its economic impact on graduates. C. It does not take care of women students’ special needs. D. It does not encourage women to take rigorous subjects. 我来回答: 提交
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