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Comprehension
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Vocabulary
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Collocation
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Word Building
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Structure
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1. Please list three crazier clauses of prenuptial
   agreements according to the text.

First, a future husband wanted to be sure that he
could keep his treasured ice-cream collection if
his marriage failed. Second, a woman wanted to
make clear who would walk the dog.
Third, one man wanted to be entitled to a divorce
if his future wife gained more than 15 pounds
once she married him.
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2. What is a prenuptial agreement?
A prenuptial agreement, or prenup, negotiated by
lawyers and signed before a marriage, is mainly
designed to deal with financial problems when
divorce is insisted on by one party.
3. Why has signing prenups become popular in the
US since the early 1980s?
Because more and more states began passing laws
based either on splitting evenly or on
whatever a judge thinks is fair.
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4. What are the three situations calling for
premarital agreements?
First, a wealthy man who has been stung once may
want to avoid such future problems. Second,
protecting children from a previous marriage is a
strong reason. Third, when one future partner is
extremely rich while the other is poor.
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5. What kinds of problems can prevent a
premarital agreement from being enforced in court?
First, any language mistakes in a prenup, even a
misplaced preposition, can be disastrous. Second,
a prenuptial agreement signed under pressure can
cause problems. Third, there can be a dispute
over premarital accords if a couple decides to
divorce while living abroad, or when they have
different passports.
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6. How do British courts view prenuptial
agreements?
Prenuptial agreements are almost ignored by
British courts because English law says that
circumstances of a marriage arent static, and
therefore a judge should decide how financial
assets will be divided.
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7. According to some lawyers, why do more and
more American people begin to accept prenuptial
agreements?
For one thing, divorce rate in the US is very
high, which is often accompanied by money
problems. For another, laying bare all ones
finances can sometimes save a couple from a
terrible marriage.
8. Why is there still hope for the couple who
signed a prenup?
Because many people just put the prenup in a
drawer and never look at it again after signing
it.
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?. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
1. All description and information on hotels,
guest houses in this brochure should be _____ as
we have never heard them before.
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2. We have _____ for moving to a large house,
because this house is too small for us.
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3. Sometimes hed sit and look at it, and his
eyes would _____ with the tears of despair.
? sting
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4. Even apart from such exceptions, however, a
contract not made in the required form, but
completely performed on one side, might be _____.
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5. Characteristically, he does not _____ any
source for this assertion.
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6. He was always _____ in womens company,
especially girls company.
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7. The _____ in todays Times says Peace
declared!
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8. The _____ had also moved against us in another
way.
? dispute
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?. Rewrite each of the following sentences using
the expressions given in the parentheses.
1. She has certainly become more confident over
the last couple of years. (gain in)
?She has certainly gained in confidence over the
last couple of years.
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2. The actor was written about a lot when he was
accused of eating a pet dog. (make the headlines)
?The actor made the headlines when he was accused
of eating a pet dog.
3. Gregs parents are worried that he will be
influenced by the kind of people they dont
approve of while hes at college. (exposure to)
?Gregs parents are worried about his exposure to
the kind of people they dont approve of while
hes at college.
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4. The opposition parties are demanding the
ministers resignation over the scandal (??).
(call for)
?The opposition parties are calling for the
ministers resignation over the scandal.
5. Ive prepared a list of candidates that Id
like to interview. (draw up)
? Ive drawn up a list of candidates that Id
like to interview.
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6. Finally, shell become penniless if she
carries on spending as much as that. (end up)
?Shell end up penniless if she carries on
spending as much as that.
7. She talks very honestly about her three
unhappy marriages in her autobiography (??). (lay
bare)
?She lays bare her three unhappy marriages in her
autobiography.
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8. Hoping that he might be able to provide an
explanation for the problem, I asked Mario to
look at the engine. (shed light on)
? Hoping that he might be able to shed light on
the problem, I asked Mario to look at the engine.
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?. Look at the sentences taken from your reading
passage. Just think about what other words can be
modified by the word wedding and fill in the
sentences with the right words.
e.g. To avoid such problems, some lawyers will
not draw up an agreement once a wedding date has
been set.A lawyer recalled one awkward episode
where the two sides were still editing the
contract, arguing over what to keep and delete,
as 150 wedding guests were arriving for the
wedding.
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1. They have decided to give Henry a record player
   as a wedding pre____.

sent
2. Hostage Allan Nicklin flew home from Saudi
Arabia yesterday in time to celebrate his silver
wedding anni_______.
versary
3. The order of the wedding ser____ remains
secret these people are planning a pleasant
surprise to the new couple.
vice
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4. Her golden wedding ba___ gleamed (??) on the
shelf.
nd
5. The dress has been packed away, the wedding
al____ has finally found a resting place and the
honeymoon has become a distant memory.
bum
6. Then I realized that over the years the white
wedding dre__ had become yellow, and the flowers
in her hair had died, and the bride inside the
dress had grown old.
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7. We have had our wedding ph____ enlarged and
hung one of them on the wall of our bedroom.
otos
8. Frequently couples at their golden wedding
cele_______ will say something to the effect of
we made it a point never to go to bed angry.
bration
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???? ? Ex. VI, p. 251

• ?. The suffix an can be added
• to the name of a place in order to form an
  adjective or noun that describes or refers to sb.
  or sth. that comes from that place, or
• to the name of a famous person in order to form
  an adjective or noun that describes or refers to
  sth. or sb. that is connected with or typical of
  that persons work or the time at which he or she
  lived. For example

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America Shakespeare
American Shakespearean
Look at the following words that have been
formed by adding -an to some nouns and translate
the Chinese expressions into English, using the
words.
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Africa Asia Europe Italy Victoria Elizabeth Hollyw
ood James
African Asian European Italian Victorian Elizabeth
an Hollywoodian Jamesian
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1. ??????????????
a tradition perfected by the Elizabethans
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an exhibition of fine Victorian furniture
3. ???????????
dance music with African roots
4. ???????????
lots of shops run by Asians
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5. ????????????
make the British feel more European
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watch Italian football very often
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produce some Hollywoodian films
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write some novels of Jamesian style
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?. The prefix pre- with the meaning of before
can be added to nouns (mainly to form
adjectives), verbs and adjectives with or without
the hyphen. For example
nuptial cook war
prenuptial precook pre-war (prewar)
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Look at the following words that have been
formed by adding pre- to nouns, verbs and
adjectives and choose the proper word to fill in
each blank.
pre- school pre- marital pre- exist pre-
game pre- historic pre- mature pre-
plan pre- suppose
pre-school premarital preexist pre-game prehistori
c premature preplan presuppose
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1. __________ agreements are also welcome to some
young people in China.
Premarital
2. I had been a little too __________ in coming
to this conclusion.
premature
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3. The players were showered with gifts in a
_________ ceremony.
pre-game
4. It could not have been __________, since no
imagination could have foreseen its need.
preplanned
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5. More and more parents are beginning to realize
the importance of __________ education for their
children.
pre-school
6. That place is worth seeing. It has some
monuments that _______ written history.
preexist
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7. I must __________ that you know the principal
facts of the case.
presuppose
8. Some __________ people lived in caves.
prehistoric
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VIII. Study the model carefully and then combine
the following pairs of sentences after the model.
Model A dispute can also break out over
prenuptial agreements if a couple decides to
divorce.The couple lives abroad at the same time.
A dispute can also break out over prenuptial
agreements if a couple decides to divorce while
living abroad.
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1. He always listens to the radio.
   At the same time he is driving to work.

He always listens to the radio while driving to
work.
2. He works in an American company. He
gives lectures on economics in a college in the
evening.
He works in an American company while giving
lectures on economics in a college in the evening.
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3. In some societies women are treated as
professional equals on the job. They
are treated as servants at home.
In some societies women are treated as
professional equals on the job while being
treated as servants at home.
4. We serve as teachers.
We should be pupils at the same time.
We should be pupils while serving as teachers.
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5. The two professors will exchange their views.
They will do so when they are in Paris attending
a meeting.
The two professors will exchange their views
while in Paris attending a meeting.
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IX. Now rewrite the following sentences to
achieve emphasis by placing the negative part at
the beginning.
1. This thought did not come to her mind even
once.
Not even once did this thought come to her mind.
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2. They were no sooner released by order of the
court than they were rearrested by the police.
No sooner were they released by order of the
court than they were rearrested by the police.
3. He understood the weakness of his own position
least of all.
Least of all did he understand the weakness of
his own.
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4. The couple seldom went to the theatre together
during their stay in the USA.
Seldom did the couple go to the theatre together
during their stay in the USA.
5. We cannot understand a disease unless we
understand the person who has the disease.
Not unless we understand the person who has the
disease can we understand a disease.
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threaten sb. with public exposure
make the headlines
It has made the headlines that the presidents
wife threatened her husband with public exposure.
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2. ?????????????????, ????????????,????????
the wealthy ladys repeated demand on sth.
end up in sb.s refusal to get married
sting sb.s pride
The wealthy ladys repeated demand on a
premarital agreement greatly stung her future
husbands pride and ended up in his refusal to
get married.
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3. ?????????????,????????????,??????????
forge his brothers signature on a check
be exposed by the media
get sth. dishonestly
He got the money dishonestly, by forging his
brothers signature on a check, which was exposed
by the media.
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4. ???????????????????????,??????????
shoot the man with justification
shoot at him first
cite a classic example
He cited a classic example to show that the
police officer shot the man with justification
because the man had shot at him first.
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5. ????,?????????????,???????????????????????
insist on
make no mistake about it
the right to get a divorce
Make no mistake about it, some women would insist
on the right to get a divorce if their husbands
did not work and save money as much as they did.
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6. ????????, ????????????????
the casual discovery of
shed some light on
be sent to look into
The casual discovery of the fingerprint shed some
light on the murder he had been sent to look into.
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7. ????????????,???????????
lay bare ones private thoughts
give him an awkward smile
be unwilling to
Unwilling to lay bare her private thoughts to a
stranger, Mary only gave him an awkward smile.
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have no bearing on
view the marriage as it is
what matters
What matters is not whether the engaged couple
have faith in each other, but to view the
marriage as it is, which has no bearing on
romantic love.
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XI. Translate the following into Chinese.
1. Prenups have been gaining in acceptance in the
United States since the early 1980s, when more
states began passing laws that affected the
division of financial assets in a divorce.
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2. The prenups of the famous make the headlines
lawyers for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis contested
the prenuptial agreement between her and
Aristotle Onassis after his death, reportedly
winning 26 million in an out-of-court
settlement.
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3. A typical candidate for a prenuptial agreement
is a man who has accumulated considerable wealth,
has already been stung once, and wants to reduce
his exposure to future problems.
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4. The effort to shield assets to be passed on to
children and grandchildren is making prenups more
common among retired people in their 60s and 70s
who are remarrying after a spouse has died.
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5. Another situation that calls for premarital
agreements occurs when a potential spouse has, or
is in line for, great inherited wealth or a
family business, especially if the future partner
has little or nothing at all.
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6. A classic example is cited by lawyers An
agreement is stuck under somebodys nose on the
day of the weddingand its usually a sheand
she signs, but doesnt even read it.
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7. A lawyer recalled one awkward episode where
the two sides were still editing the contract,
arguing over what to keep and delete, as 150
wedding guests were arriving for the wedding.
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8. A lawyer in a London law firm that often
handles divorces for British-American couples
noted that in Britain, prenuptial agreements were
just about ignored by the courts.
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My Choice Between Sth. and Sth. Else
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Para.1 1) With a gradual/sharp growth
(decline/worsening/progress/arrival) of/in sth.,
people become more and more concerned about how
to 2) To make it, some prefer towhile others
choose to 3) If I were asked to make a choice
between the two, however, I would like to attach
more weight to the latter/former than to the
former/latter.
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Para. 2 4) It is true that ____ does ensure/
bring a lot of for one, such as, but, compared
with ____, it seems less attractive to me. 5) To
begin with, , thereby (??I) 6) By contrast, ,
thus 7) Besides, , in which context (??II)
8) In contrast to that, , in which case 9) And
the most striking difference between both lies in
(??III) 10) while/whereas (????)
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Para. 3 11) From the comparisons and contrasts
above, anyone can conclude that my insight into
/ my way of is more reasonable and acceptable.
12) Therefore, I will from today on so as to
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How to Prevent a Terrible Marriage
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How to Prevent a Terrible Marriage
1) With a sharp growth in the divorce rate,
people become more and more concerned about how
to avoid the potential risks of their marriages.
2) To make it, some prefer to make premarital
agreements before their wedding ceremonies while
others still choose to maintain their marriages
through their mutual trust. 3) If I were asked to
make a choice between the two, however, I would
like to attach more weight to the latter than to
the former.
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4) It is true that the marriage with a
prenup (premarital agreement) does ensure a lot
of benefits for the family, such as the
protection of children from going hungry or the
reasonable distribution of financial assets, once
divorce is inevitable, but, compared with the
marriage based on the mutual trust, it seems less
attractive to me. 5) To begin with, the marriage
bound up with a prenup throws itself, from the
very outset, into an ocean of family worries,
thereby leaving little room for the spouses
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enjoyment of happiness their unity brings about.
6) By contrast, the marriage built on the mutual
trust always nurtures itself in truth, romance
and harmony, thus placing no limit on the
spouses enjoyment of happiness derived from
their intimate exchanges. 7) Besides, the
prenup-based marriage lays bare, in writing or in
cold fact, the spouses desire or even greed for
money, in which context there is no soil in their
marriage for warmth to grow on. 8) In contrast to
that, the trust-based marriage always
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reminds the spouses of the truth that there is
something more valuable than money in their
marriage, in which case both the husband and the
wife would tend to bring forth more love and
attraction for each other. 9) And the most
striking difference between both lies in their
emphases on the post-marriage life. 10) The
former couple will focus their life on the
material or physical interests whereas the latter
couple will center their life around the
spiritual or ethical refinements.
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11) From the comparisons and contrasts
above, anyone can conclude that my way of coping
with the prospective problems of a marriage is
more reasonable and acceptable. 12) Therefore, I
will refine my taste for marriage from today on
so as to search the seas of people for the one
who is resolved to share with me the affection
and thought, comfort and hardship, joy and grief
for life.
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???? ? Ex. XVII p. 267
Fill in the blanks with the words given below.
Change the form where necessary.
1. In certain cases its cells _____ changes,
which in time can lead to cancer.
? undergo
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2. The marriage was _____ in 1985, and in 1986
Mr. Heddle married his second wife, Janet.
? dissolved
3. Important competitions require proper
preparation and _____ rest the night before.
? adequate
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4. In the last two decades world production of
electricity has roughly doubled, with the
developing nations pulling towards _____ the
developed.
? overtaking
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5. There was also an environmental objective to
_____ a proper balance between human needs and
the natural environment.
? maintain
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6. Some teachers were aware that they could now
_____ to decision-making but still saw the head
deciding all the issues.
? contribute
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7. The importance of these considerations again
will _____ from person to person, and one society
to another.
? vary
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8. The _____ inevitably fell mainly on the
mothers and it seemed that their loneliness could
at least be lessened if they had a regular
opportunity to share their experiences.
? burden
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???? ? Ex. XVIII, p. 267
Fill in each of the blanks in the following
sentences with a suitable preposition or adverb.
1. Throughout the trial, the prisoner insisted
___ his being innocent.
on
2. She brought _______ a major change in the way
her company designed its products.
about
3. The doctor told me that I would have to go on
___ a strict diet.
to
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4. These beliefs can in fact contribute ___ the
motivation of their struggle.
to
5. The criteria used vary considerably ________
countries, as may be expected.
between
6. They were painted over, but someone had
scraped _________ a small area of paint, exposing
the clear glass.
away/off
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7. The salesclerk asked if I was looking for
anything ___ particular.
in
8. Most of basketball players are very tall, but
hes an exception ___ the rule hes short.
to
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