单选题 Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the
end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the
questions. Now, listen to the news.
单选题
About ______ of foreign-owned companies avoided federal taxes altogether.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文]24-25
A new government study shows that most US corporations paid no federal taxes between 1996 and 2000. The study found that more than 60 percent of US-based companies avoided federal taxes altogether. The percentage of foreign-owned firms that paid zero taxes was about 10 percent higher. A front-page article in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal says the study show that evading taxes, through legal or other means, has become "deeply rooted in US corporation culture."
单选题
Evading taxes by corporation in America is ______.