问题 单项选择题

美国联邦所得税是累进税,收入越高,纳税率越高。美国有的州还在自己管辖的范围内,在绝大部分出售商品的价格上附加7%左右的销售税。如果销售税也被视为所得税的一种形式的话,那么,这种税收是违背累进原则的。
以下哪项,如果为真,最能加强题干的议论

A.人们花在购物上的钱基本上是一样的。

B.近年来,美国的收入差别显著扩大。

C.低收入者有能力支付销售税,因为他们缴纳的联邦所得税相对较低。

D.销售税的实施,并没有减少商品的销售总量,但售出商品的比例有所变动。

E.美国的大多数州并没有征收销售税。

答案

参考答案:A

解析: 题干必须基于一个假设:人们花在购物上的钱基本上是一样的。否则,如果收入越高,花在购物上的钱越多,则销售税并没有违背累进税的原则。因此,A项能有力加强题干议论。

阅读理解

It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.

As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.

He asked her what was wrong and she replied,“I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”

The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.’

He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地), where she placed the rose on the grave.

The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.

Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.

小题1:The man went to the shop to ________.

A.have a rest

B.help the girl

C.buy some food

D.order some flowers小题2:The man’s mother lived ________ away from him.

A.2 kilometers

B.75 miles

C.200 miles

D.200 kilometers小题3:The girl was crying on the road because ________.

A.she was hungry

B.she got hurt

C.she couldn’t afford a rose

D.she couldn’t find her way home小题4:After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to ________ together.

A.the cemetery

B.his shop

C.the girl’s home

D.his mother’s house小题5:We can learn from the passage that _________.

A.the girl loved flowers very much

B.the girl loved her mother very much

C.the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother

D.the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her

写作题

读写任务。

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

     In junior high school, one of my classmates, Ethan, was addicted to TV. This boy simply knew everything

about such pop shows as Who's the Boss?

     Then one day Ethan's mother made brim an offer in order to draw him back to his school subjects. She

promised that she would give him $200 if he could go a full month without watching any TV. None of us

thought Ethan could do it, but he did quite well. His mom paid him $200. He went out and bought a TV, the

biggest he could find.

     In recent years, hundreds of schools have carried out experiments with paying kids with each for showing

up or getting good grades. All school kids admire this trend. But it upsets adults. Teachers say that we are

rewarding kids for doing what they should be doing of their own will. Psychologists warn that money can

actually make kids perform worse by making the act of learning cheap. The debate has become a typical battle

over why our kids are not learning at the rate they should he despite decades of reforms and budget increases.

[写作内容]

1. 以约30词概括上文的主要内容。

2. 以约120词对用金钱鼓励孩子学习的现象进行议论,内容包括:

   (1) 你对用金钱鼓励孩子学习的看法:

   (2) 你的父母(或其他亲人)是如何鼓励你学习的;

   (3) 你认为怎样才能更好地鼓励孩子学习

[写作要求] 

1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句

    子。

2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

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