■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading
▶ Topic : Hackers practice 05 (p118) tax on tobacco
▶ Your Answer :
In the reading passage, there is ample support for the author’s claim that there are several advantages at increasing the tax on tobacco. There are three explanations about it; reducing the smoking of the young, repairment of the ruined environment, and resolving the poverty. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reason as a rebuttal to the author’s point.
First, the professor contends that the soaring tax of cigarette cannot deter the young people smoking. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim that tax increasement that the increase in tax can diminish the amount of smoking of young generations. Since there are black markets which provide cigarettes at cheaper prices and even do not check their ID and make the purchase easier, the people who are not old enough are able to have access to cigarettes.
Second, the professor insists that the soaring tax can not resolve the environmental problem. This refutes the reading passage’s assertion that the amplifies tax revenue of the government can handle the current environment problem caused from the tobacco industry. government can handle the environmental problems by enhancing the tax on cigarette However, when the tax rises, the price of cigarette will inevitably goes up either. This is the problem will inevitably increase which can be another problem Increasing the tax will drop the sales of tobacco and eventually lessen the tax income of the government, therefore the environment will not be counted.
Finally, the professor argues that going up the tax will worsen the poverty. This counters the reading passage’s suggestion that due to the high tax revenue, the government will finance more money to welfare and the job seekers will be helped. This does not consider that how the tobacco industry is advantageous to creat new jobs. to create new jobs To grow, sell, and produce the cigarettes, a number of people will be needed at agriculture, retail, and manufacture department. This means that the downsizing of tobacco industry due to the high tax would significantly worsen the situation.\\
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