GWD一道题两个答案，待纠正

狂威雪

Q37: GWD-29-Q17
The total market value of real estate in Altonville has steadily declined over the past four years.  This decline has meant that the overall figure on which the city’s property tax is based—the assessed value of that real estate—has also declined.  The percentage of assessed value that was paid as property taxes to the city, however, did not change from year to year during this period.
A房地产的市场价值在过去的四年逐渐下降。这个下降意味着财产税依据的总数---房地产的评估价值---也在下降。评估价值的比率在过去的几年中没有变化。
The information above most strongly supports which of the following?
A.    The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes did not change over the past four years.
B.    The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes has declined steadily over the past four years.
C.    The amount of revenue that Altonville collected from property taxes was lower last year than it was four years ago.
D.    During the past four years, Altonville officials increased tax rates on other sources of revenue such as retail sales and business profits.
E.    Altonville will soon require property owners to pay a higher percentage of the assessed value of their property as property tax.
答案是C还是B??
在GWD18里是C 在19里是B  没看懂题~~但是我觉得是B

sdcar2010

C) is right. Number vs. percentage.

property tax = tax rate * property value

If tax rate is the same while the poperty value declines, the property tax has to go down as well.

小m月饼

楼上的解释不对吧 last year 和four years ago这个时间跟原文没什么联系。楼主翻译有问题，real estate是房地产的意思... 我觉得应该是B，D引入了不想管概念即 retail sales and business profits

狂威雪

谢谢啦~~但是没明白此题到底在纠结什么？计算公式是什么？？为什么是B不是C

狂威雪

C) is right. Number vs. percentage.

property tax = tax rate * property value

If tax rate is the same while the poperty value declines, the property tax has to go down as well.

-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2011/6/11 19:58:26)

疑问：由于property value下降，Property tax 不变，应该tax 上升，与C答案有什么联系，c答案比较对象是去年和前几年，我觉得比较对象就不对~~

sdcar2010

Withou knowing what other tax revenes (in addition to property tax) are, there is no way you can be sure to say "The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes" is either decreasing or increasing.

When we talk about tax, the most recent tax year is always last year because this year's tax can ONLY be calculated next year.

colasama

C) is right. Number vs. percentage.

property tax = tax rate * property value

If tax rate is the same while the poperty value declines, the property tax has to go down as well.

-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2011/6/11 19:58:26)

疑问：由于property value下降，Property tax 不变，应该tax 上升，与C答案有什么联系，c答案比较对象是去年和前几年，我觉得比较对象就不对~~

-- by 会员 狂威雪 (2011/6/11 23:38:37)

是tax rate不变，value下降，所以征得的propety tax少了

arading

我觉得这题的关键是
 The percentage of，指的是什么的百分比；我觉得题目的意思是指房产税占城市税收的比例，

 另外，从题目的描述只能得出，房产税的数额在下降，不能说明房产税占其他东西的比例，所以不能得出任何百分比数字。

 感觉是C

ss27

感觉sdcar2010的分析是对的，百分比其实就是指税率。

aaintw

我也觉得是C
从文中可以推出房地产总值四年来在下降（在一道类似变体的题目中的答案"The total amount of revenue that Altonville has collected from property taxes has declined over the past four years. "），所以去年肯定比四年前要低。
但是B说房地产税占所有税收中比率降低是没有依据的，因为没有说明总税收的情况怎么样，如果总税收降低幅度大于房地产税降低幅度，那么有可能房地产税占所有税收中比率反而上升。