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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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2017-12-19
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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?
The example of Julia Roberts is used to show that______.
选项
A、anything can happen on the wedding day
B、each engagement gives insurers a chance to profit
C、suddenness like that is easy to happen during the wedding
D、most wedding insurers will cover things like that
答案
A
解析
推断题。根据题干定位到第一段。由原文It is unlikely that…But you never know what might happen.可见举这个例子是为了说明:在婚礼当天什么事情都有可能发生,所以才 需要为婚礼买保险。因此A项正确。B项“每一场订婚都会给保险公司获利的机会”,与 例子无关。C项“像这样的意外在婚礼上很容易发生”与原文It is unlikely that…不符。D 项“大部分婚礼保险公司会涵盖此类业务”与原文most insurers wouldn’t cover that anyway不符。
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考研英语一
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