新航道考研倒数8天：完型填空模拟练习
北京新航道学校 李传伟第二十三天：完型模拟练习
经过前面的总结与反思，从今天开始进入练习阶段。后面所有练习主要用于帮助考生复习考试知识点、熟悉考试程序与练习时间控制，并无押题的目的。
Many families feel it is only natural to boost the amount they hand on to the next generation by taking whatever legal steps they can to avoid inheritance tax. By not paying, these families might1 , they are2the life chances of their successors, increasing their ability to afford3
on homes,4 debt, meet the cost of university fees and higher education, or5in their own businesses.
Another point of view,6, is that by avoiding tax on wealth they are 7a system that 8
the life chances of an entire generation. John Whiting, of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, says: ‘The question of whether, if you have saved away for years, this9be returned to the pot is part of abroader philosophical10.’
Inheritance tax is charged at 40 per cent on estates11 more than £263,000 for the tax year 2004-2005. Most accountants consider the tax as, in effect,12because of the13 of ways of14it.Increases in house prices over recent years have swelled the estates of people who would not consider themselves15 . Since 1997, the average UK house price expressed as a percentage of the IHT threshold has 16 from 32 per cent to around 65 per cent.
The bank HBOS says 2 million UK householders are now17the tax on their estatesamazingly because of the value of their homes.18 Michael Moloco of solicitor Hunters PSM 19: ‘Basically, IHT is somethingthat20owners of most urban three-bed family homes.
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