[单项选择]Anyone not paying the registration fee by the end of this month will be （） to have withdrawn from the program.
A. contemplated
B. deemed
C. acknowledged
D. anticipated

[填空题]

Anyone paying attention to the debate over Social Security has heard a litany of dates. There’s 2018, when the program is expected to start taking in less in taxes than it pays out in benefits. And there’s 2042 (or 2052 by some estimates), when its trust fund is supposed to run out of money.
(41)___________________
For years, the government has collected more in Social Security taxes than it needed to pay current benefits, Those excess collections are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund, ostensibly to pay future retirees. But there is no actual money in the fund. Instead, the government spends the money for other purposes and issues the fund IOUs.
In 2009, the shell game begins to end. The amount by which Social Security taxes exceed benefits starts to shrink. (42)___________________
The problem could have been avoided, and it still could be reduced.
If the rest of the budget was in good shape--and particularly if the gov

[填空题]Who were paying the bill for them
They were paying the bill ______.

[填空题]Paying is worth it

[单项选择]The duty-paying value shall be
A. the value of imports or exports declared by the consignors or consignors or consignees
B. the true transaction value of imports & exports
C. the value higher than the transaction value of identical or similar goods
D. the value lower than the transaction value of identical or similar goods

[填空题] Are Improvements Worth Paying for As goods and services improved, people were persuaded to spend their money in changing from old to new, and found the change worth the expense. When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs and therefore airfares would (0) , but the new planes meant such an improvement that the higher cost was justified. A new car or wireless washing machine, electric kettle made life so much more comfortable than the old one that the high cost of replacement was amply (21). Manufacturers still cry their wares as persuasively as (22) but are the improvements really worth paying for In many fields things have now reached such a high standard of performance that (23) progress is very limited and very, very expensive. Airlines, for example, go to enormous expense (24) buying the latest prestige jets, in which vast research costs have been (25) on relatively small improvements. If we scrape these vast costs we might lose the ch
A. A．though
B．anyhow
C．anyway
D．instead