The author in the reading mainly discusses three benefits of the cigarette and other such taxes. However, the professor in the listening rebuts them because they can be challenged.
First, the reading claims that these taxes keep people away from unhealthy habits, which is refuted in the listening because they do not lead to healthier behavior. For instance, high cigarette taxes have led smokers to buy cheaper, lower quality cigarettes containing more harmful substances and present greater health risks. Similarly, consumers might continue buying unhealthy foods even if they are more expensive, thereby having less money left to spend on healthy foods.
Second, according to the reading material, it is fair for people indulging in unhealthy behavior to pay for the consequences of their behavior through high taxes, but the lecturer tells us that these taxes are unfair because they do not consider people's incomes. As a matter of fact, they create a greater burden for those with smaller incomes than for those with higher incomes.
Lastly, based on the third theory in reading, governments can use this tax revenue for various projects, but the listening argues that this income represents countless dollars and governments may depend on it and not want to lose it. In consequence, the governments might not be forceful enough pursuing policies and implementing laws that might eliminate unhealthy habits.
- Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific concerns presented in the reading passage.The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientist 88
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
- Advantages and disadvantages of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods. 86
- TPO52IntegratedTask-Asteroids are large space objects made of rock and ice. There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system. Though we often hear ideas about establishing colonies of humans to live and work on our Moon or our neighboring 3
- Now listen to a part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.Asteroid colonization is not a very practical idea. Each of the points in the reading has a serious downside.First, while low gravity on an asteroid would make landing and taking off relat 83
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, similarly, so, third, for instance, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1200.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 224.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35714285714 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58719127114 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.647321428571 0.540411800872 120% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8976136331 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.333333333 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8888888889 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.2222222222 7.06452816374 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174194063634 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0662787609362 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0525200284722 0.0662205650399 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0943715397345 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677139719368 0.0443174109184 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.3589403974 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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