CNN 2012-04-18

 The introduction from half way around the world,awesome! Thank you to those students , thanks for all af you who spend part of your thesday with CNN student news. First up today is the annual april deadline for america to fire their taxes.All right,here about taxex all the time. There are different kinds of them,but they are all basically¹ fees of the government collecting in order paying the goods and services that governments provides. Federal², state ,local government concent different taxes for different things. For example, most of you probably pay the sales tax, that's the extra money you pay when you buy something. If you have a job and noticed that your pay check is less than you expected, that might be because what was taken out for income taxes. The federal government and most states charge a fee on the money people earn.That was today's deadline was all about.

1 basically   

adv.基本上，从根本上说

参考例句：

• His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
• Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。

2 federal   

adj.联盟的；联邦的；(美国)联邦政府的

参考例句：

• Switzerland is a federal republic.瑞士是一个联邦共和国。
• The schools are screaming for federal aid.那些学校强烈要求联邦政府的援助。