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Just as each wedding creates potential business for divorce lawyers, so each engagement gives insurers a chance to drum up busin
Just as each wedding creates potential business for divorce lawyers, so each engagement gives insurers a chance to drum up busin
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2016-01-02
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Just as each wedding creates potential business for divorce lawyers, so each engagement gives insurers a chance to drum up business. Future spouses, says Alan Tuvin of Travelers, an insurer, may wish to protect themselves against something going wrong on the wedding day. It is unlikely that your intended wife will leave on horseback, as Julia Roberts did in "Runaway Bride", and most insurers wouldn’t cover that anyway. But you never know what might happen. Mr. Tuvin launched the firm’ s wedding-insurance business; he and his wife were its first clients.
A typical American wedding costs 25,000 or so. This has fallen a bit over the past quarter-century but still seems lavish given how tight American belts are these days. Weddings are pricey because the rich are more likely to marry than the poor, and the average age of newlyweds has gone up, so couples are more prosperous when they eventually tie the knot. High prices, and the fact that many venues require couples to take out liability insurance, feed demand for wedding insurance. A fifth of couples buy it, says the Wedding Report, a trade publication.
Wedding insurance began in Britain: Cornhill, an insurer, wrote its first policy in 1988. But there were few takers. The idea only took off once transplanted to America. In the early days, says Mr. Nuccio of Robert Nuccio of Wedsure, an surer, there were incidents of couples faking engagements to collect a payout. Since then, most policies have a clause that excludes "change of heart". Wedsure does insure against cold feet, but its policy will pay out only if the wedding is cancelled more than 12 months before it is due to take place, thereby guarding against fiances phoning the broker once the relationship is already on the rocks.
This does not mean policies are useless. Common causes of payouts include the venue or caterers going bust after having taken a big deposit. Extreme weather, a spouse being deployed by the armed forces and an absent priest can all trigger payouts. Most policies will pay to re-stage the photos if the photographer fails to turn up or disappears with the pictures.
For some, even a small risk of something going wrong on a day that has been planned for months is worth paying to avoid. Who says romance is dead?
Wedsure’ s policy against cold feet will pay out on condition that______.
选项
A、the fiances are due to break up
B、the fiances’ relationship is already on the rocks
C、the wedding is cancelled when it is due to take place
D、the wedding is cancelled more than one year in advance
答案
D
解析
根据题干定位到第三段。由原文Wedsure does insure against cold feet, but its policywill pay out only if the wedding is cancelled more than 12 months before it is due to take place可知,D项“提前一年取消婚礼”为正确答案,是保险支付的有效条件,in advance是原文before it is due to take place的同义表述。A项“未婚夫妇即将分手”,正是保险要防止的事情。B项“未婚夫妇的关系已经破裂”,C项“在婚礼即将举行的时候取消婚礼”,均是对原文的曲解。
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考研英语一
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