问题 单项选择题

格利威市政府管理的公共汽车的车费由本市的税收补贴,但那些低车费的受益者中的许多人都是来自格利威之外的到市区去上班的人。有些本市议员争论说市政府的税收应该主要用来让那些交税的人受益。因此,公共汽车的票价应该上升,直至足够支付这项服务的成本为止。
下面各项如果正确,除哪一项之外都能削弱本市议员提出的论述( )

A.如果本市的公共交通费用比较昂贵,那么许多位于本市的对该市的纳税人有益的商业就会迁到城市的外面。

B.较高的交通费用给上下班者提供了经济上的刺激,促使他们开车去上班,这将会加速格利威的空气污染,并且还会增加本市街道的维护费用。

C.许多本市的选民都是低交通费用的受益者,他们强烈地反对增加本地的税收。

D.所有在格利威工作,并且工资收入在国家规定的最低线以上的人都会给市政府上交 5%的工资税。

答案

参考答案:C

解析:

[分析]: 许多低交通费用的受益者强烈反对增加本地税收的事实与议员所提出的公共汽车的票价应该上升的建议之间并没有什么联系。所以,选项C所描述的事实不能削弱议员提出的建议。
选项D能削弱议员提出的建议。这是因为,既然所有在格利威市工作并且工资收入在国家规定的最低线以上的人都会给市政府上交5%的工资税,则那些来自该市之外的到市区去上班的人,只要是工资水平超过了国家规定的最低线的人就都是纳税人。他们理应享受低价位的公共汽车服务。于是,议员提出的建议就显得没有道理了。

单项选择题
单项选择题

Phyllis Wheatley is regarded as America’’s first black poet. She was born in Senegal, Africa, about 1753 and brought to America aboard a slave ship at about the age of seven. John and Susannah Wheatley bought her for three pounds at a slave auction in Boston in 1761 to be a personal servant of Mrs. Wheatley. The family had three other slaves, and all were treated with respect. Phyllis was soon accepted as one of the family, which included being raised and educated with the Wheatley’’s twin 15-year-old children, Mary and Nathaniel. At that time, most females, even from better families, could not read and write, but Mary was probably one of the best educated young women in Boston. Mary wanted to become a teacher, and in fact, it was Mary who decided to take charge of Phyllis’’s education. Phyllis soon displayed her remarkable talents. At the age of twelve she was reading the Greek and Latin classics and passages from the Bible. And eventually, Mrs. Wheatley decided Phyllis should become a Christian.At the age of thirteen Phyllis wrote her first poem. She became a Boston sensation after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitfield in 1770. It became common practice in Boston to have "Mrs. Wheatley’’s Phyllis" read poetry in polite society. Mary married in 1771, and Phyllis later moved to the country because of poor health, as a teacher and caretaker to a farmer’’s three children. Mary had tried to interest publishers in Phyllis’’s poems but once they heard she was a Negro they weren’’t interested.Then in 1773 Phyllis went with Nathaniel, who was now a businessman, to London. It was thought that a sea voyage might improve her health. Thirty-nine of her poems were published in London as Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It was the first book published by a black American. In 1775 Phyllis wrote a poem extolling the accomplishments of George Washington and sent it to him. He responded by praising her talents and inviting her to visit his headquarters. After both of her benefactors died in 1777, and Mary died in 1778, Phyllis was freed as a slave. She married in 1778, moved away from Boston, and had three children. But after the unhappy marriage, she moved back to Boston, and died in poverty at the age of thirty.

The word "respect" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to________.

A.consideration

B.disregard

C.punishment

D.behavior