New Horizon College English Reading and Writing Course Second Edition Volume III Unit 890 After-school Answers

Section A. Prenuptial agreement

The second part, page 249

1. First, the future husband wants to make sure that if his marriage fails, he can keep his precious ice cream. Second, a woman wants to find out who will walk the dog. Thirdly, a man hopes that if his future wife weighs more than 15 after marrying him, he has the right to divorce.

2. Prenuptial agreement or prenuptial agreement, negotiated by lawyers and signed before marriage, is mainly to deal with financial problems when one party insists on divorce.

3. Because more and more states begin to pass laws based on "equal distribution" or "anything that judges think is fair".

First, a rich man who has been stung once may want to avoid such problems in the future. Second, protecting children from previous marriages is a powerful reason.

Third, when one future partner is very rich and the other is very poor.

First of all, any language mistakes in prenuptial agreement, even the misplacement of prepositions, may be disastrous. Second, prenuptial agreements signed under pressure will cause problems. Thirdly, if a couple decides to divorce while living abroad, or when they have different passports, there may be disputes over the prenuptial agreement.

6. British courts almost ignore prenuptial agreements, because British law stipulates that the marriage environment is not static, so judges should decide how to divide financial assets.

7. First of all, the divorce rate in the United States is very high, which is usually accompanied by money problems. On the other hand, disclosing a person's financial situation can sometimes save a couple from a terrible marriage.

8. Because many people just put the prenuptial agreement in the drawer and never read it again after signing it.

The third part, page 249

1. Confirmed

2. Justifiable reasons; justify

Step 3 be sarcastic

4. Implementation

Step 5 quote

6. clumsy

7. Headlines

8. Debate

. The fourth part, page 250

1. In the past few years, she has undoubtedly strengthened her confidence.

The actor made headlines when he was accused of eating a pet dog.

Greg's parents are worried that he will come into contact with people they don't like during his college years.

The opposition party asked the minister to resign because of the scandal.

I have drafted a list of candidates I want to interview.

If she continues to spend money like that, she will end up penniless.

7. She revealed her three unhappy marriages in her autobiography.

I hope he can explain this problem and ask Mario to check the engine.

. The fifth part, page 250

1. Gift

2. anniversary

Step 3 serve

Step 4 take

5. records

Step 6 dress

7. photos

Step 8 celebrate

Part VI, Page 25 1

1. Tradition perfected by Elizabethan times

2. Exquisite Victorian Furniture Exhibition

3. Dance music from Africa

Many shops are run by Asians.

5. Make the British feel more European.

6. Always watch Italian football

7. Make some Hollywood movies

8. Write some James-style novels

Part VII, Page 25 1

1. Before marriage

2. immature

3. Before the game

4. Planned in advance

5. Preschool

6. Pre-existing

7. Take ... as a prerequisite

8. prehistoric

Part VIII, page 252

1. He always listens to the radio while driving to work.

He works in an American company and teaches economics in a university in the evening.

3. In some societies, women are regarded as professional equality at work, but they are regarded as servants at home.

When we are teachers, we should be students.

The two professors will exchange views when they meet in Paris.

. Part IX, page 252

1. It never occurred to her.

As soon as they were released by the court, they were arrested again by the police.

He is the least aware of his weakness.

The couple seldom went to the theater together during their stay in America.

We can't understand the disease unless we know the sick people.

Part X, page 253

1. The fact that the President's wife threatened her husband to go public made headlines.

The rich lady repeatedly asked to sign a prenuptial agreement, which greatly hurt her future husband's self-esteem and eventually led him to refuse to get married.

He got the money dishonestly by forging his brother's signature on the check, which was exposed by the media.

He gave a classic example to show that it was justified for the police to shoot the man, because the man shot him first.

There is no doubt that some women will insist on the right of divorce if their husbands don't work and save money like them.

6. The fingerprints found by chance are helpful to the murder he was sent to investigate.

7. Mary didn't want to confide her thoughts to strangers, but only smiled awkwardly at him.

What matters is not whether engaged couples have confidence in each other, but the correct view of marriage, which has nothing to do with romantic love.

Part XI, page 253

1. Since the early 1980s, prenuptial agreements have been accepted by more and more people in the United States, because at that time, more and more states began to pass laws on divorce property distribution.

Celebrities' prenuptial agreements always make headlines: Jacqueline Kennedy onassis's lawyer took their prenuptial agreements to court after Aristotle onassis's death, and it is said that she later won $26 million in an out-of-court settlement.

The typical people who want to sign a prenuptial agreement are men who have accumulated a lot of wealth. They have suffered a lot and want to reduce their troubles in the future.

Protect your assets so that they can be passed on to your children and grandchildren. This effort has made prenuptial agreements more common among retired and widowed people who are preparing to remarry.

5. Another situation that needs to sign a prenuptial agreement is that the future husband or wife has inherited or will inherit a huge estate or family business, especially the future partner has little or no money.

A classic example cited by the lawyer is: "On the wedding day, an agreement suddenly appeared in front of someone, usually' her', and she signed it without looking."

7. A lawyer recalled an embarrassing incident: at that time, both men and women were still revising the agreement, arguing about which should be kept and which should be deleted, but at this moment, 150 guests kept coming to attend the wedding.

8. Lawyers in a London law firm often handle divorce matters for couples living in Britain and the United States. He noticed that in Britain, the courts "almost ignored" the prenuptial agreement.

Is the traditional family structure dangerous?

Fifteen. Please read the following multiple-choice questions to decide what kind of questions they belong to. Be careful not to ask you to make a choice now.

1. Specific details

2. Inference problem

3. Logical structure problem

4. Specific details

5. Specific details

6. Inference problem

7. Guess the unknown word problem

8. Inference problem

Sixteen. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

1.C 2。 C 3。 B 4。 A 5。 B 6。 C 7。 B 8。 A

The seventeenth part on page 267

1. Experience