17. With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000). Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above? (A) Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value. (B) If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes. (C) By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes. (D) If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.(B) (E) Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others. B肯定是对的,而且非常明显,考试的时候肯定会选它。但是因为是学习,我想还是把所有的问题都搞清。我觉得D和E也没什么错。 D:如果P13不废除的话,确实identical properties会被征不同的税率呀。文章里已经据了个例子了。 E13确实对某些homeowener会比对另一些homeowners好处大一些呀。文章里也说了呀,有人每年就交914,隔壁邻居一样的房子要交2000多。 但是如果是从去领会作者意图的角度出发(就像去领会领导意思,不能只看事实而已),B肯定是最好的。不知道是不是从这个角度考虑。:) 多谢指教! |