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[单项选择]California legislators have a chance to eliminate the state’s unjust and loop-hole-ridden newspaper sales tax, if a handful of Senate leaders will let them. The long-overdue repeal of this eight-year-old "temporary" tax breezed through the General Assembly the other day by a vote of 73-5. Senate leadership, however, appears determined to avoid any similar vote in its house. "We’ve kind of always felt that if we could get to the rank and file in the Senate, repeal would pass," says Thomas W. Newton, general counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA). Senate president pro tem John Burton and other leaders know that, so they are hoping to keep the bill bottled up in committee until the Legislature adjourns in August.
Certainly, neither Burton nor anyone else can make a compelling argument for keeping the tax. Sixteen states impose some kind of sales tax on newspapers, but California’s is uniquely, um, Californian in making odd distinctions about what kinds o
A. persuade a few more senate leaders to vote for the newspaper tax.
B. pass the bill for imposing tax on California newspapers.
C. prevent the Senate from voting for the bill of repeal.
D. wait until August to have the legislature vote on the bill.
[填空题]Local legislators have agreed on proposals to sidestep the court by amending the state constitution
[填空题]Health-mania people have a chance to attain great age and make themselves a nuisance m their whole neighborhood with their reminiscences.
[填空题]Some children still do not have the chance to receive good education.
(deprive) ____________________.
[单项选择]The law says that women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them.
The reality is very different. Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act, many of them still get paid less than men.
They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just won’t consider. And they lose because they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children.
All this is reported in an independent study ordered by the Government’s Women’s Unite.
The biggest problem isn’t equal pay in workplaces such as factories. It is a sort of work women do.
Make a list of the low-paid jobs, then consider who does them.
Try nurses, secretaries, cleaners, clerks, teachers in primary schools, dinner ladies, and child care helpers. Not a lot of men among that group, are there
Yet some of those jobs are really important. Surely no one would deny that about nurses and teachers, for a start.
So why do we reward the people who do them so poorly
A. that women interrupt a career to have children
B. what sort of work women do
C. because they are women
D. what an unfair pay women get in workplaces
[单项选择]
C
The law says that women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them.
The reality is very different. Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act, many of them still get paid less than men.
They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just won’t consider. And they lose because they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children.
All this is reported in an independent study ordered by the Government’s Women’s Unite.
The biggest problem isn’t equal pay in workplaces such as factories. It is a sort of work women do.
Make a list of the low-paid jobs, then consider who does them.
Try nurses, secretaries, cleaners, clerks, teachers in primary schools, dinner ladies, and child care helpers. Not a lot of men among that group, are there
Yet some of those jobs are really important. Surely no one would deny that about nurses and teachers, for a start.
So
A. after 25 years
B. according to the law
C. as a result of the Equal Pay Act
D. because women are as strong as men
[单项选择]When does a football team have the best chance to win the World Cup（）
A. When it has a large number of fans.
B. When it plays at home.
C. When it has many international stars playing for it.
D. When the fans cheer enthusiastically for it.
[简答题]You each have a chance to talk by yourselves, The examiner gives you a colour photograph to look at and asks you to talk about it. When you have finished talking, the examiner gives your partner a different photograph to look at and to talk about.
