请教:大全-A-2

harvardstudent

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

One tax-reform proposal that has gained increasing support in recent years is the flat tax, which would impose a uniform tax rate on incomes at every level. Opponents of the flat tax say that a progressive tax system, which levies a higher rate of taxes on higher-income taxpayers, is fairer, placing the greater burden on those better able to bear it. However, the present crazy quilt of tax deductions, exemptions, credits, and loopholes benefits primarily the high-income taxpayer, who is consequently able to reduce his or her effective tax rate, often to a level below that paid by the lower-income taxpayer. Therefore, ______

(A) higher-income taxpayers are likely to lend their support to the flat-tax proposal now being considered by Congress

(B) a flat-tax system that allowed no deductions or exemptions would substantially increase actual government revenues

(C) the lower-income taxpayer might well be penalized by the institution of a flat-tax system in this country

(D) the progressive nature of our present tax system is more illusory than real（D）

(E) the flat tax would actually be fairer to the lower-income taxpayer than any progressive tax system could be

为甚麽E不对呢?

philikittist

therefore后面是opponents of flat tax的意见，他们认为flat tax和progressive tax比是不公平的，E和他们的意见相反。

harvardstudent

好像不是conclude opponent of flat tax 的意见吧?我理解是 a proposal for flat tax--> opponents say progressive tax is fairer--> Actually, progressive tax make wealthy people more exemptons... the actual tax rate is lower然后问结论是什麽吧?

philikittist

抱歉，我刚才解释的不好

1 累进税率肯定是比平行的税率会拿走富人更多钱的；

2 段落结构：

（1）要搞平行税率的改革

（2）反对者说累进税率更公平

（3）其实现行的税收工作有很多漏洞，富人的课税水平经常比穷人还底

（4）因此，现在的累进税率的公平性是假相。

富人纳税水平低不是累进税率造成的，是税务的执行造成的。

harvardstudent

明白了, 多谢楼上的指教.

透明萝卜

可是你怎么知道现行政策是progress tax呢? 原文中也没有说啊 要是这样的话怎么可能推出D?

julia_ju

555，我选A，为啥不对？既然对富人有好处，富人自然会支持呀。

三脚猫

以下是引用透明萝卜在2005-5-9 9:04:00的发言：

可是你怎么知道现行政策是progress tax呢? 原文中也没有说啊 要是这样的话怎么可能推出D?

同问？

latecomer

A 反了吧

富人要支持，也应该支持progressive tax吧 他们有机会交得更少。

我刚才也郁闷了A：（

FlowerJay

我发现这个帖子里都是高分牛人。我迷信一个。我觉得这个题有捷径，看转折词就行了！用杨鹏的理念就是: flat->opponent提出prog->however->prog完了！->therefore->后面必然是紧跟prog,说prog完了，或者flat成了！那就是只有D和E了。E里面有any，题目没这种比较，直接扔掉！所以就是D了。 多么XDF阿，思考过程绝对不超过20秒钟。。。 这个适合我这种怎么reason怎么reason错类型儿的，一定会被N人所不齿