Low-income families are often unable to afford as much child care as they need. One government program would award low-income families a refund on the income taxes they pay of as much as $1,000 for each child under age four. This program would make it possible for all low-income families with children under age four to obtain more child care than they otherwise would have been able to afford.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the claim that the program would make it possible for all low-income families to obtain more child care?
83.Editorial: Regulations recently imposed by the government of Risemia cali for unprecedented reductions in the amounts of pollutants manufacturers are allowed to discharge into the environment. It will take costly new pollution control equipment requiring expensive maintenance to comply with these regulations. Resultant price increases for Risemian manufactured goods will lead to the loss of some export markets. Clearly, therefore, annual exports of Risemian manufactured goods will in the future occur at diminished levels.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument in the editorial? (A) The need to comply with the new regulations will stimulate the development within Risemia of new pollution control equipment for which a strong worldwide demand is likely to emerge. (B) The proposed regulations include a schedule of fines for noncompliance that escalate steeply in cases of repeated noncompliance. (C) Savings from utilizing the chemicals captured by the pollution control equipment will remain far below the cost of maintaining the equipment. (D) By international standards, the levels of pollutants currently emitted by some of Risemia's manufacturing plants are not considered excessive. (E) The stockholders of most of Risemia's _+. manufacturing corporations exert substantial pressure on the corporations to comply with environmental laws.
55. Low-income families are often unable to afford as much child care as they need. One government program would award low-income families a refund on the income taxes they pay of as much as $1,000 for each child under age four. This program would make it possible for all low-income families with children under age four to obtain more child care than they otherwise would have been able to afford.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the claim that the program would make it possible for all low-income families to obtain more child care?
(A) The average family with children under age four spends more than $1,000 a year on child care.
(B) Some low-income families in which one of the parents is usually available to care for children under age four may not want to spend their income tax refund on child care.
(C) The reduction in government revenues stemming from the income tax refund will necessitate cuts in other government programs, such as grants for higher education.
(D) Many low-income families with children under age four do not pay any income taxes because their total income is too low to be subject to such taxes.
(E) Income taxes have increased substantially over the past 20 years, reducing the money that low-income families have available to spend on child care.
Situation :To help low-income families pay for child care, a government project would provide these families with tax refunds for each young child. The claim is made that the program will allow all low-income families to obtain more child care. Reasoning: What point undermines the claim?The claim is that al/low-income families would receive money to buy more care; the money would be in the form of income tax refunds. The program thus assumes that issuing refunds through the income tax system is an effective mechanism for providing funding to all these families. Does the income tax system indeed provide a satisfactory distribution channel? What if some low-income families have such low incomes that they do not pay income taxes? If they don't pay such taxes, then they cannot receive tax refunds, and the planned process for delivering funding will be unsuccessful.
正确答案是D B Although the money is to be in the form of a refund that could be spent however the family wished, it is the availability of additional money that is the point of the claim. .
很奇怪的是,B选项我始终觉得有点疑惑,虽然OG的解释提到了the availability of additional money,但B中,父母不肯将这部分钱花在孩子身上,算不算availability的范围呢?反复读B选项,总觉得也能算正确,因为如果父母不花钱在孩子身上,the availability of additional money 也被否定了,和D是一样的效果,大家帮我看看吧?