大学英语六级考前冲刺训练－改错（3）

American law regards a partnership as an association

of two or more persons who have agreed to

combine their labour, property, and skill, or some or

all of them, for the purpose of engaging in lawful

business and shared profits and losses between them. 1. ____

The parties forming such an association is known as 2. ____

partners. Partners may create a name and use a real 3. ____

family name or names for a partnership. The agreement

to form a partnership is known as an article of

copartership or partership contract. The importantest 4. ____

provision of the agreement is the one stipulating the

manner of distributing profits. 

Any number of persons may contract to forming 5. ____

a partnership, and firms of partners may enter into

partnership with one another. However, most 

corporations have not power to enter into partnership 6. ____ 

if such power is expressly given in the corporate charter 7. ____

or article of association. New members may be

admitted into an existed partnership only with the 8. ____

consent of all the partners. The agreement of a partnership

has a definite term of years in general. If no duration

is specified, it is said to be a partnership at

will and can legally terminate at any time by any 9. ____

partners. A partnership can be dissolved or terminated 10. ____

and the terms of the partnership agreement modified

at any time.