六级选词填空——沪江题库整理.docx

六级选词填空练习一The Fair Tax (交易税) is a proposal to abolish the Internal Revenue Service (国税局). It throws out all existing federal taxes and replace them with a 30% nationwide retail sales tax, which would 1 about as much as income taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes and the lot do now. The Fair Tax got 2 like this, Linbeck said: Three old rich men in Houston talked over lunch in 1995 about what they could do to leave the country better off before they died. They hit on reforming the tax system, and in 3 simplifying it, as a worthy goal. Ive been a 4 of the complexity of the tax code, is how Linbeck puts it. The main idea behind shifting taxation in this direction is to remove the burden on investment and production and place it all on consumption, 5 probably stimulating long-run growth and exports. Lindbeck also argues that with the payroll tax gone; low-income workers will stand a much better chance of saving up money and rising out of 6 . This was a reference to the work of W. Michael Cox, chief economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Consumption is wealth, the argument goes, which makes a consumption tax the fairest kind of tax. One big catch is that the Fair Tax would 7 lower tax rates on those with the highest incomes. Linbeck had an interesting if not entirely convincing to me, at least response when I brought that up. I don’t know many poor people that buy a G5. The best indicator of people’s well-being is what they 8 and how they spend it. All in all, its an extremely 9 plan — Steve Forbes flat tax was a similar attempt to shift taxes onto consumption, but would have left most of the 10 tax structure intact. Its fair to object to it as simply too important for our political system to handle.练习二World leaders need to take action on the energy crisis that is taking shape before our eyes. Oil prices are 1 and it looks less and less likely that this is a bubble. The price of coal has doubled. Countries as far apart as South Africa a