One tax-reform proposal that has gained increasing support in recent years is the flat tax,which would impose a uniform tax rate on incomes at every level.Opponents of the flat tax say that a progressive tax system,which levies a higher rate of taxes on higher income taxpayers,is fairer,placing the greater burden on those better able to bear it.However,the present crazy quilt of tax deductions,exemption,credits,and loopholes benefits primarily the high-incom taxpayer,who is consequently able to reduce his or her effective tax rate,often to a level below that paid by the lower-income taxpayer.Therefore_______
a) higher-income taxpayers are likely to lend the support to the flat-tax proposal now being considered by Congress
b)a flat-tax system that allowed no deductions or exemptions would substantially increase actual government revenue.
c)the lower-income taxpayer might well be penalized by the institution of a flat-tax system in this country
d)the progressive nature of our present tax system is more illusory than real
e)the flat tax would actually be fairer to the lower-income taxpayer than any progressive tax system could be.
key D (题干中并没有说第2种tax system是present tax system呀?是不是我太钻牛角尖了？)
my choice B
2. Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson's poetry often distorted her intentions.Yet Johnson's own,more faithful, text is still guity of its own forms of distortion.To standardize Dickinson's often indecipherable handwritten punctuatin by the use of the dash is to render permanent a causal model of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print.It implies that Dickinson chose the dash as her typical mark of punctuation when,in fact,she apparently never made any definitive choice at all.
Which of the following best summarizes the author's main point?
a)Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson's early eitors for their distortion of her work,his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.
b)Johnson's use of the dash in his text of Dickinson's poetry misleads readers about the poet's intentions.
c)Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published,virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intention.
d)although Johnson's attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson's poetry is well-meaning ,his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.
e)Dickinson's editors,including Johnson,have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson's handwritten manuscripts.
Key B (看题干和正确答案我就搞糊涂了，究竟是Dickinson用dash,还是Johnson用dash?)
my choice Effice
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