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  3. Queuse are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you? In Washington D. C. — a cit

Queuse are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you? In Washington D. C. — a cit

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问题     Queuse are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you? In Washington D. C. — a city that struggles with more than its share of bureaucratic practices — a small industry is emerging that will queue for you to get everything from a driver’s license to a seat in a congressional hearing.
    Michael Dbrsey, one of the pioneering"service expediters", began going to traffic courts for other people back in 1988. Today his fees start at $ 20 and can go into the thousands to plead individual cases at the Bureau of Traffic Adjudication (his former employer). Mr. Dorsey knows what a properly written parking ticket looks like, and often gets fines invalidated on its failures in formality. His clients include congressmen and diplomats, as well as firms for which tickets are an occupational hazard, such as taxi operators and television broadcasters.
    Service expediters are not universally loved. Non-tax income, like fines and fees, makes up a-bout 7% of local-government revenue in Washington. Mr. Dorsey alone relieves that fund of $ 150, 000 a year. Meanwhile, citizen advocacy groups keep complaining about expediters such as the Congressional Services Company and CVK Group that specialise in saving places for congressional hearings. Committees hearing hot topics such as energy regulation often do not have enough seats. Why should a well-heeled lobbyist who has paid $ 30 an hour to a professional place-holder grab the place? Critics say this perpetuates a two-layered system;the rich get good government service, but the poor still have to wait.
    This seems a little harsh. Service expeditors can hardly be blamed for creating the unfair system they profit from. Anyway, it’s not only rich corporate types who benefit from their services. Poor foreigners with little English hire expediters to navigate the ticket-fighting process; so do elderly anddisabled people who want to save time on errands that require long hours standing in line.
    And, who knows, the service expediters might even shame the bureaucrats into pulling their socks up. Back in 1999, Washington’s mayor, Tony Williams, promised to liberate citizens from the tyranny of the government queue. Things have gotten a bit better, but the 20-minute task of renewing a driver’s license can still take days. Hiring an expert to confront the bureaucratic beast on your behalf takes care of that.
This new business is not liked by all partly because
选项 A、it shifts the tax load from the poor to the rich.
B、it gets profit by undermining the two-layered system.
C、it harms the interests of local governments.
D、it violates the equal opportunities principle.
答案C
解析 该题为细节题。A项认为这种新型行业将穷人的缴税负担转移到了富人身上，文中未提到这一观点；根据第三段最后一句“Critics say this perpetuates a two-layered system…”可知，这种新型行业延续了而不是破坏了双层体制，故排除B；根据第三段第二句和第三句“Non-tax income，like fines and fees，makes up about 7％ of local—government revenue in Washington．Mr.Dorsey alone relieves that fund of $150，000 a year．”可知，免税收入，比如罚金和各种费用，占华盛顿政府年收入的7％，仅多斯先生一人就使华盛顿政府每年减少了15万美元的收入，因此这种新兴行业损害了政府的利益，故选C；根据第四段可知，服务加速者不应该被指责制造了不公平的体制，不管怎样，他们的委托人不仅仅是 富人，他们也帮助几乎不懂英语的可怜的外国人应对罚单申辩程序，并且使老年人和残疾人免去了排队之苦，因此他们并没有破坏平等机会原则，故排除D。
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