1.Mr. Janeck: I don’t believe Stevenson will win the election for governor. Few voters are willing to elect a businessman with no political experience to such a responsible public office.
Ms. Siuzdak: You’re wrong. The experience of running a major corporation is a valuable preparation for the task of running a state government.
M. Siuzdak’s response shows that she has interpreted Mr. Janeck’s remark to imply which of the following? 想請問這句是什麼意思
I can't type Chinese here. so use English.
Question askes: What is the understanding of Mr. Janeck's statement by M. Siuzdak when she said: "you are worng...."
Here Ms. Siuzdak, thinks that Mr. Janeck doesn't think Stevenson will win because he is a business man and don't have political experience.
So I think the answer is A.
(A) Mr. Janeck considers Stevenson unqualified for the office of governor.
(B) No candidate without political experience has ever been elected governor of a state.
(C) Mr. Janeck believes that political leadership and business leadership are closely analogous.
(D) A career spent in the pursuit of profit can be an impediment to one’s ability to run a state government fairly.（A）
(E) Voters generally overestimate the value of political experience when selecting a candidate
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2. Which of the following best completes the passage below?
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, exemptions, credits, and loopholes benefits primarily the high-income 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 their 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 revenues
(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（D）
(E) the flat tax would actually be fairer to the lower-income taxpayer than any progressive tax system could be
我不懂這一題為什麼會是D
It says at the beginning 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". And then argued that considering the tax return and exemption, high income tax payers actually pay less tax in reality. So D follows.
5. Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of LACE>DickinsonLACE>’s poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize LACE>DickinsonLACE>’s often indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that LACE>DickinsonLACE> surely never expected to see in print. It implies that LACE>DickinsonLACE> 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 LACE>DickinsonLACE>’s early editors 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 intentions.
(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.（B）
(E) Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts.
想問E為什麼不對
Look at this sentence "Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion". So it means Johnson's is better. So D should be the answer.
17. With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000).
Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above?
(A) Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value.
(B) If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes.
(C) By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes.
(D) If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.（B）
(E) Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others.
可不可以解釋一下題義 我有點搞不懂題目要問什麼 謝謝
I would choose B. The question askes that by presenting those arguments, what will be the conclusion of the writer?
Let me try, see above.
