中国公民李某和刘某是表兄妹,因中国婚姻法规定禁止近亲结婚,二人遂在已取得美国国籍的李某之兄的帮助下移民美国肯塔基州并在肯塔基州结婚,之后回国居住工作。后来李某因病去世,未留有遗嘱,李某之兄与刘某二人为争夺遗产产生纠纷,刘某遂诉至中国某人民法院要求以配偶身份继承遗产,那么,中国法院下列做法中正确的是哪一项( )
A. 承认刘某的配偶身份受理该继承诉讼
B. 李某和刘某规避了中国婚姻法禁止近亲结婚的强制性规定,故认定二者婚姻无效,不承认刘某配偶身份
C. 对李某和刘某婚姻的有效性适用婚姻缔结地法即美国法认定为有效,对刘某配偶身份予以认可
D. 因当事人是美国人,故驳回诉讼,告之其向美国有关法院起诉
Passage 3 Plain and simple, stock is a share in the ownership of a company. Stock represents a claim on the company’s assets and earnings. As you acquire more stock, your ownership stake in the company becomes greater. Whether you say shares, equity, or stock, it all means the same thing. Holding a company’s stock means that you are one of the many owners (shareholders) of a company, and, as such, you have a claim (albeit usually very small) to everything the company owns. Yes, this means that technically you own a tiny sliver of every piece of furniture, every trademark, and every contract of the company. As an owner, you are entitled to your share of the company’s earnings as well as any voting rights attached to the stock. A stock is represented by a stock certificate. This is a fancy piece of paper that is proof of your ownership. In today’s computer age, you won’t actually get to see this document because your brokerage keeps these records electronically, which is also known as holding shares "in street name". This is done to make the shares easier to trade. In the past when a person wanted to sell his or her shares, that person physically took the certificates down to the brokerage. Now, trading with a click of the mouse or a phone call makes life easier for everybody. Being a shareholder of a public company does not mean you have a say in the day-to-day running of the business. Instead, one vote per share to elect the board of directors at annual meetings is the extent to which you have a say in the company. For instance, being a Microsoft shareholder doesn’t mean you can call up Bill Gates and tell him how you think the company should be run. The management of the company is supposed to increase the value of the firm for shareholders. If this doesn’t happen, the shareholders can vote to have the management removed well, this is the theory anyway. In reality, individual investors like you and I don’t own enough shares to have a material influence on the company. It’s really the big boys like large institutional investors and billionaire entrepreneurs who make the decisions. The word "acquire" in the first paragraph probably means "______".
A. buy
B. claim
C. get known
D. get together