The lecturer refutes the arguments of the reading passage about the high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products. The reading passage claims that there are three reasons to justify the high taxes on purchasing unhealthy products. However, the listening disagrees with each of those reasons.
First of all, the reading suggests that people can reduce the amount of consumption of the unhealthy food due to the policy. However, the listening casts doubt on this idea by stating that people cannot easily change their behavior. If taxes on cigarettes go up, people who love cigarettes are likely to purchase cheaper cigarettes, which is unhealthy for their health. Similarly, people who like unhealthy food will continue eating unhealthy diet even if they need to pay higher tax. This contradicts what the reading passage indicates.
Secondly, the reading passage says that it is unfair to impose higher taxes on those who don't consume unhealthy food. On the other hand, the lecturer refutes this point because what the reading proposes does not take the salary into consideration. People's preference on cigarettes and unhealthy foods does not correlate with their income. Therefore, the recommended tax system is unfair for low income people since taxes are high burden for them. This is another point that the reading passage is not considered to be reasonable.
Lastly, the reading states that the government can increase the revenue by this tax rule. But the lecturer disagrees with this reason because the government will not use the tax for appropriate purposes and they are likely to impose more taxes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 90, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...air to impose higher taxes on those who dont consume unhealthy food. On the other ha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, similarly, so, therefore, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1367.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 260.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25769230769 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01553427287 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53149101234 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.503846153846 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.7453838177 49.2860985944 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.1333333333 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3333333333 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.2 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.366178693633 0.272083759551 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132444885891 0.0996497079465 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106847692318 0.0662205650399 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238717765422 0.162205337803 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0723714056893 0.0443174109184 163% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.93 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 55.0 63.6247240618 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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