In the United States, gifts by a company or a person to a charity(慈善機構(gòu)) which is approved (許可) by the government can be used to reduce(減少) the company's or the person's tax. (This is, of course, to encourage people to give money to charities. ) One day the secretary of a world-famous charity had a telephone call from a tax officer, who said, “A certain gentleman who says that his name is Howard Vine claims(聲明) to have given your society $15000 in gifts last year. I am telephoning to find out whether he did in fact do so. ”

　　“Howard Vine, did you say?” answered the secretary of the charity cautiously (慎重的). “Wait a moment, please. I'll have a look in our records. ”

　　After half a minute, the tax officer heard the secretary's voice again. “Mr. Howard Vine hasn't given us $15000 yet, ” the secretary said delightedly, “but he's going to now !”

1．How can people in the United States reduce their tax?

2．Why does the government allow this?

3．What had Mr. Vine done?

4．Why was the secretary of the charity so happy?

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解析：

By making gifts to charities approved by the government.

To encourage people to give money to charities.

He had claimed that he had given $15000 to a certain charity.

Because he was sure that Mr. Vine was going to give the charity $15000.


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