现年29岁的罗先生在某外资企业担任部门主管,每月税前收入为11000元。罗先生的妻子刘女士今年27岁,在一所著名私立中学担任英语教师,每月税前收入为7500元。罗先生夫妇于2004年12月31日购买了一套总价75万元的住房,贷款总额为50万元,贷款利率5.5%,15年还清,他们采取的是等额本金还款方式,目前该房产现值为80万元。罗先生目前在银行的存款还有5万元,其中包括银行利息约600元(税后)。罗先生对投资股票不感兴趣,目前名下有国债3万元(含去年实际收到的700元收益),债券基金5万元(含去年实际收到1500元的收益)。罗先生3年前就接受了保险理财规划师的建议而大量投保,目前保单现金价值为9万元(即个人账户余额),去年收到保险分红2500元。为应付日常开支,罗先生家里常备有2000元的现金。除每月需要偿还的房贷以外,罗先生一家每年保险支出为23000元,每月生活开支保持在3000元左右。去年,罗先生一家除为母亲治病花销8000元外,并无其他大额支出。罗先生夫妇预备两年后(2008年)生育后代,考虑到子女教育是一项庞大支出,罗先生决定从现在开始就采取定期定额的方式为孩子储备教育金。注:各项财务信息截至2005年12月31日,数据采集时间为2006年1月10日。
罗先生家庭的资产负债表中“现金与现金等价物”一栏的数值应为()。
A. 2000
B. 18500
C. 24000
D. 52000
It's never easy for a mighty military to tread lightly on foreign soil. In the case of American forces in South Korea, protectors of the nation's sovereignty since the Korean War, the job is made doubly difficult by local sensitivities arising from a history of foreign domination. So when a few GIs commit particularly brutal crimes against the local populace, it's easy for some South Koreans to ask: Who will guard us from our guardians?
That kind of questioning grew more insistent on January 20, when police found the body of a 30year-old Korean woman, Kang Un-gyong, in the apartment she shared with her American. boyfriend. An autopsy showed Kang, who had bruises over most of her face and chest, died after being hit on the back of her head with a blunt object. Her boyfriend, Henry Kevin McKinley, 36, an electrician at the United States military base in Seoul, admitted heating her. McKinley said he pushed Kang, who then struck her head on a radiator, but denied that he tried to murder her.
On January 21 McKinley was arrested on charges similar to involuntary manslaughter under Korean law. As a civilian employee of the U.S. military in Korea, he comes under the purview of the Status-of-Forces agreement between Washington and Seoul. This grants the South Korean government criminal jurisdiction——but not pre-trial custody——over members of American forces in Korea. Because of the gravity of the charges against McKinley, however, the Americans waived their rights to keep him in their custody before trial.
The Kang case was only the latest in a series of crimes involving members of U.S. forces and Koreans. Just a few days earlier, a U.S. army sergeant was sentenced to six months in jail for assaulting a local in a subway brawl last May——even though some reports said it was a Korean who instigated tile fray. The murder also followed two separate incidents in which American soldiers were indicted on charges of attempted rape.
With the spotlight already on the behaviour of American servicemen abroad because of the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Okinawa, allegedly by a group of U.S. soldiers, the Kang murder burst the lid on many Koreans' resentment of the presence of 37,000 American troops in their midst. Official relations between Seoul and Washington remain on an even keel, and most Koreans don't blame the entire U.S. military for the crimes of individual servicemen. But the incidents have played into the hands of those who are questioning the very basis of the American presence in South Korea.
Some observers believe the weds of Koreans' estrangement from the U.S. military were first sown in 1980, when troops under the control of former President Chun Doo Hwan massacred some 200 pro-democracy protesters in the southern city of Kwangju. Many left-wing students——usually at the forefront of anti-government protests——still insist that the U.S. military command acquiesced in the crackdown.
But public alienation against U.S. troops really took off after the brutal 1992 murder of a Korean prostitute by an American soldier. Pictures taken at the time-not released publicly but seen by the REVIEW-showed the dead woman's mouth stuffed with matches and a bottle stuck in her vagina. The man convicted of the murder, Pvt. Kenneth Markle of the U. S. army's 2nd Division, received a life sentence, later reduced to 15 years.
Cultural misunderstandings haven't helped matters any. Many Koreans believe all Gls are mist young men with little education from rural areas of the U.S. "I've been hit and called names by Koreans, but I didn't respond," says a soldier at Camp Humphreys in Pyongtaek. He says the U.S. forces' command "drills it into your head every day: don't fight with a Korean. You can't win."
Other factors are also at play, not least the swelling self-confidence of the younger generation of South Koreans, bolstered by their nation's growing economic and political clout.
A. the massacre of 200 pro-democracy protesters
B. many tragic outcomes of U.S. Korean cross-country marriage
C. sexual assaults on Korean prostitutes
D. American servicemen's behaviour in South Korea