A.It builds new oil facilities.B.It pays back to its citizens.C.It gives benefits to l
A. It builds new oil facilities.
B. It pays back to its citizens.
C. It gives benefits to large corporations.
D. It pays back to the federal government.
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听力原文:M: Did you finish that paper for your political science class? It was on state taxes, wasn't it?
W: I finished it, but I ended up changing the topic.
M: Hmm, what did you finally come up with?
W: Well, I decided that state taxation was too large of an issue, so I focused on a single state. It turned out that one state stood out from the others in terms of taxes.
M: Which one was that?
W: Alaska. Alaska is the only state that pays its citizens instead of taking taxes from them.
M: What? The people in Alaska are paid by the government?
W: That's right. Since the discovery of oil there in the 1970's, there has been enormous amounts of money spent by corporations in order to take out the oil and the state charges the companies such large taxes that the state government typically has budget surpluses.
M: But other states have industries too. They don't pay the people tax money.
W: Yes, but in proportion to the amount of people living in the state, Alaska receives an extremely high amount of taxes from its industries. In order to correct the budget surplus,it was decided that the people who lived there would get the money back.
M: Wow, maybe I should move to Alaska.
W: Not so fast, the money only goes to people who have lived there for at least ten years. By the time you live there that long, there might not be any money left.
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A. The history of taxes.
B. The state of Texas.
C. The importance of oil.
D. The taxes of Alaska.
A.He suggests that she visit Belgium.B.He suggests that she work harder.C.He suggests
A. He suggests that she visit Belgium.
B. He suggests that she work harder.
C. He suggests that she listen more.
D. He suggests that she get a tutor.
Mr Brown was happy that I was invited to joined the picnic.
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
听力原文:M: How are your new neighbors?
W: They seem nice enough, but they have a son who's driving me crazy.
M: What do you mean?
W: He comes home every night around 10 with his car windows rolled down andradio making noise. It stops as soon as he turns the car off. But by then our children are wide awake.
M: Oh, no.
W: Yes. Sometimes it takes us till mid-night to get the kids to settle down again.
M: Have you tried talking to them?
W: Well, I feel stupid complaining. It's not as though he is turning his radio on all night.
M: You said yourself it is driving you crazy.
W: Well, you know how early I have to get up to be here at the office. I'm just not getting enough sleep and neither are the kids. They are so easily annoyed when I get home in the afternoon.
M: Maybe you could go over sometime with a little gift: a plant for the yard or something. Then you could ask about their son, whether they have any other children, and they'll be sure to ask about yours.
W: Yeah, and then what?
M: Then you could mention that the hardest thing now is getting your kids to get to sleep at night.
W: And keeping them asleep.
M: That is the idea, and you should do it soon. The longer you wait, the harder it'll be to do politely.
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A. He drives too fast.
B. He plays his guitar too loudly.
C. His radio wakes her children up.
D. His friends are too noisy.