单选题Taxes consist of the money which people pay to support their government. There are generally three levels of government in the United States : federal, state, and city ; therefore, there are three types of taxes. Salaried people who earn more than a thousand dollars must pay a certain percentage of their salaries to the federal government. The federal government has a graduated income tax; that is, the percentage of the tax increases as a person's income increases. With the high cost of taxes, people are not very happy on April 15, when the federal taxes are due. Americans pay their federal taxesA. on the 15th of each month.B. on the first day of each month.C. once a year.D. twice a year.

单选题In a bullfight, it is movement, not the color, of subjects that arouses the bull.

单选题The word "practically" in the first paragraph could be best replaced by

单选题Eleanor Roosevelt urged legislation to assist the poor and oppressed.

单选题Home economists recommend buying basic food items in large {{U}}quantities{{/U}}.

单选题His new girlfriend had omitted to tell him that she was married.

单选题In Britain and many other countries appraisal is now a tool of management.

单选题 {{B}}Abolishing the estate-tax{{/B}} Recently, about 120 wealthy Americans had signed an appeal to oppose abolishing the estate-tax. President Bush has included abolishing estate-tax in his $1.6 trillion taxcut proposal. Normally when "dozens" of Americans join in a political activity, it is not particularly noteworthy, but in this case the dozens include: George Soros, a billionaire financier; Warren Buffett, an investor listed as America's fourth-richest person; the philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr.; and William Gates Sr., a Seattle lawyer and father of America's richest man, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates. It was really refreshing to see Buffett and George Soros and a number of other extremely wealthy celebrities stand up in opposition to President Bush's proposed abolishment of estate tax. While the policy has some emotional attractions—it would protect the inheritors of some small businesses from having to sell the companies to pay taxes, and it is true that most people have been taxed on their savings once already—in practice the tax abolishment would mainly be an extra for a very small number of very, very rich people. Buffett and his company cite these factors in their appeal calling for opposition to the estate-tax abolishment. They also discuss something that's equally emotional and far more complex; the principle of meritocracy. The idea that everyone in America has an equal chance, that our fates are not determined by accidents of birth, is one of our core values. And nowhere is this principle more respected than in the technology economy; entrepreneurship almost by definition expresses the principle of meritocracy. The applicants argue that abolishing the tax, in the long run, will result in either increased taxes or cuts to Medicare, Social Security, environmental protection and other government programs. Abolishing the estate-tax "would enrich the heirs of America's millionaires and billionaires, while hurting families who struggle to make ends meet," the appeal says. An old commercial says: "He made his money in the old-fashioned way: He earned it." There was a perfect parody of the ad in which the line read: "He made his money in the old-fashioned way: He inherited it." In 20 or 50 or 100 years. Which of these lines will be right? Buffet and Soros and their friends, to their credit, want to help make the first one real. Let's hope this is only one step in that process.

单选题It proved that the old woman she had been taking care of was indeed her own mother. A. turned over B. turned in C. turned down D. turned out

单选题There is enough space for me to put my new furniture in the room.A. placeB. windowC. roomD. area

单选题Racing the clock every day is such an exhausting effort that when I actually have a few free moments, I tend to {{U}}collapse{{/U}}. A. fall down B. fall ill C. fall out D. fall behind

单选题She felt hurt by my words, but it wasn't really out of my intention.A. purposeB. indicationC. implicationD. invasion

单选题Marcarty’s generosity indicates clearly that__________ .

单选题It took us a long time to mend the old church.

单选题He rolled up his trouser leg to Uexhibit/U his wounded knee.

单选题 My First Job I was six when I joined my father and two eider brothers at sunrise in the hayfields of Eufaula, Oklahoma. By the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up low-income rental properties. He gave me a penny for every nail I pulled out of old boards. I got my first real job, at JM's Restaurant in town, when I was 12. My main responsibilities were clearing tables and washing dishes, but sometimes I helped cook. Every day after school I would head to JM's and work until ten. Saturdays I worked from two until eleven. At that age it was unlucky going to work and watching my friends run off to swim or play. I didn't necessarily like work, but I loved what working allowed me to have. Because of my job I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local bar Tastee Freez. This made me proud. Word that I was honest and hardworking got around town. A local clothing store extended credit to me although I was only in the seventh grade. I immediately charged a $68 sports coat and a $22 pair of trousers. I was making only 65 cents an hour, and I was already $90 in debt! So I learned early the danger of easy credit. I paid it off as soon as I could. My first job taught me discipline, responsibility and brought me a level of personal satisfaction few of my friends had experienced. As my father, who worked three jobs, once told me, "If you understand sacrifice and commitment, there are not many things in life you can't have." How right he was!

单选题You should have blended the butter with the sugar thoroughly. A. spread B. mixed C. beaten D. covered

单选题 Seeing the World Centuries Ago If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Former or Eugene Fodor, it will not surprise you to lean that travel writing has a long and venerable history. Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales. One of the earliest travel writers, a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo, lived around the time of Christ. Though Strabo is known to have traveled from east of the Black Sea west to Italy and as far south as Ethiopia, he also used details gleaned from other writers to extend and enliven his accounts. His multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of the cities, peoples, customs, and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time. Two other classic travel writers, the Italian Marco Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah, lived in roughly the same time period. Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle in about A.D. 1275 and remained there 16 or 17 years, visiting several other countries during his travels. When Marco returned to Italy he dictated his memoirs, including stories he had heard from others, to a scribe, with the resulting book The million being an instant success. Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says, Marco's book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration. Ibn Battutah's interest in travel began on his required Muslim journey to Mecca in 1325, and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. His travel book the Rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys, court intrigues, and even the effect of the Black Death in the various lands he visited. In almost 30 years of traveling it is estimated that Ibn Battutah covered more than 75,000 miles.

单选题These are our motives for doing it.

单选题The town is famous for its magnificent church towers.