单选题After a run of several thousand years, it is entirely fitting that 2000 will be marked as the year the tide turned against taxation. Clay tablets recall the taxes of Hammurabi in the Babylon of 2000BC, but the practice is certainly older. People in power have always tried to divert some of the proceeds of economic activity in their own direction. Lords took feudal dues from their vassals; landowners took tolls from merchants; gangsters took protection money from small businesses; governments took taxes from their citizens. Despite the different names, the principle has remained constant: those who do not produce take resources from those who do, and spend it on altogether different things. The tide is turning because of the convergence of several factors, in the first place, taxes are becoming harder to collect. Capital is more mobile than ever, and inclined to fly from places that tax to places that do not. Governments do not move their boundaries and jurisdictions as rapidly as companies can change locations. Attempts to establish trans-national tax powers are almost certainly, ably doomed by international competition to attract economic activity. Many businesses will choose to stay out of reach. The global economy and the Internet mean that purchases can now cross frontiers. People buy books, clothes, and cars from abroad, and any finance minister who likes to tax these items find his tax base diminishing. It is not only capital and goods which are harder to pin down. Even wages are crossing frontiers. The rise of the service sector means that many income-generating activities can take place across frontiers, causing yet more headaches for overstretched public treasuries. Furthermore, the pace of electronic, hard-to-trace activity is accelerating. No less important has been the rise of political resistance. The past quarter-century has been marked by a movement led in Britain and America itself in California's famous tax-cutting referendum Proposition 13, but saw its fullest expression in the Thatcher and Reagan tax cuts of the 1980's. Britain's Tories entered office in 1979 with the top rate of income tax at 98%, and left office 18 years later with a top rate of 40%. Indeed, their Labour opponents became electable only after a firm promise not to raise it again. The plain fact is that electorates these days will not stand for it. They recognize, correctly, that governments spend their money less carefully and less efficiently than they can spend it themselves. One of the greatest uses of tax money is to provide pensions. And here a revolution--as important and pervasive as privatization--is sweeping the world. Fully-funded personal pension plans, based on individual savings, are sweeping away the poorly funded public pensions promised by governments. The latter take taxes from the young to support the old. The former invest savings from the young to support themselves when old.

单选题George ______ some important sentences by underlining them with a red pen.

单选题Mary' s departure ______with Tom' s return.

单选题The poor reception on your TV is probably due to outside______.

单选题The Canadian unions tend to strive for wage parity, with their counterparts in the United States.

单选题When he lived in that remote place, radio was the only means he had to keep ______ of current events in the country. A. account B. trace C. record D. track

单选题The price increases were passed on by the firm to none but the ______.

单选题Consumers deprived of the information and advice they needed were quite simply ______ every cheat in the marketplace.

单选题 The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1950's. In the 1920's but especially {{U}}(21) {{/U}} the Depression of the 1930's, the United States experienced a {{U}}(22) {{/U}} birth rate. Then with the prosperity {{U}}(23) {{/U}}.on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and {{U}}(24) {{/U}} households earlier and began to {{U}}(25) {{/U}} larger families than had their {{U}}(26) {{/U}} during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106. 2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955 {{U}}(27) {{/U}} economics was probably the most important {{U}}(28) {{/U}}. it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed {{U}}(29) {{/U}} the idea of the family also helps to {{U}}(30) {{/U}} this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming {{U}}(31) {{/U}} the first grade by the mid-1940's and became a {{U}}(32) {{/U}} by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself {{U}}(33) {{/U}}. The wartime economy-meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. {{U}}(34) {{/U}} large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paying jobs elsewhere. {{U}}(35) {{/U}}, in the 1950's and 1960's, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the 1930's no longer made {{U}}(36) {{/U}}: keeping youths ages sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high {{U}}(37) {{/U}} for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators {{U}}(38) {{/U}} turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and {{U}}(39) {{/U}}. The system no longer had much {{U}}(40) {{/U}} in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.

单选题Nylon is a kind of______material widely used in our daily lives.

单选题The novel will be read a long time for its minute and almost uncanny insight into army life, its______dialogue, its sheer narrative pull, its portrayal of the tenderness that sometimes is found beneath the crudest animal drives, its absence of mock heroics, its comic absurdities and irony and, above all else, its revelation of the perversity of human nature in the face of evil.

单选题There are (over) eighty of the pyramids (scattered) along tile banks of (the Nile), (some of them), are different in shape from the true pyramids.A. overB. scatteredC. the NileD. some of them

单选题Experts say walking is one of the best ways for a person to Uremain/U healthy.

单选题It can be hard to live up to one's______(2002年武汉大学考博试题)

单选题Susan Clinton's participation in the Progressive Movement was Ufar-reaching/U, embracing such causes as labor legislation and housing reforms.

单选题 In the U.S., the Republican's doctrines were slightly liberal, whereas the Democrats' were hardly ______.

单选题In the present economic ______ we can make even greater progress than previously.

单选题The doctor promised that this medicine would ______ the pain in the stomach.(2009年北京航空航天大学考博试题)