[简答题]import tax / permits goods / with little or no / to enter this country / the open-door policy

[简答题] tax

[填空题]If the air in New York seems a little less grimy this spring, thank Rudolph Giuliani. On January 10th, after months of burning debate, the city’s non-smoke mayor 91.________ signed the Smoke-Free Air Act. From April 10th smoking will be stubbed out(碾灭) in restaurants catering for more than 35 people, a move that will hit about half the city’s 11,000 eating places. Nicotine addicts will also smoked out at work, except 92.________ in ventilated smoking rooms or offices occupied by no more than three consenting adults. More radically, outdoor seating areas will also become smoke zones. 93.________ Come the new baseball season, fans at Yankee Stadium will be breaking the law if they light up. New York joins well over 100 American cities—and four states—that have passed laws banned smoking 94.________ in public places. More than a third of American companies now forbid smoking in the workplace, up to 95.________ a mere 20% in 1986. And the tobacco industry, which in Am

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M: Gary, will you please pick up little Tom from the school
W: I’m sorry. I’m afraid not.
M: Why
W: A patient has just arrived. He was badly hurt in a traffic accident. I’m going to operate on him at once.

What’s the relationship between the two speakers（　）.
A. Doctor and patient.
B. Husband and wife.
C. Teacher and student.

[单项选择]According to ancient records, the first tax that the government of Selea imposed on a basic commodity was a tax of two centima coins on every jar of cooking oil sold in Selea. Tax records show that despite a stable population and strict enforcement of tax laws, revenues from the oil tax declined steeply over the first two years that the tax was in effect.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the decline in Selean oil-tax revenues
A. During the decade following the implementation of the tax, the average household income in Selea rose steadily.
B. Two years after implementing the tax on cooking oil, the Selean government began to implement taxes on numerous other basic commodities.
C. Jars of cooking oil were traditionally bought as wedding gifts in Selea at the time the tax Went into effect, and gifts of cooking oil increased after the implementation of the tax.
D. After the tax was imposed, Selean merchants began selling cooking oil in larger jars than before.
E. (E) Few Selean households began to produce their own cooking oil after the tax was imposed.

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