The reading holds the point of view that high taxes should be imposed on cigarettes and other unhealthy products and gives out three reasons. However, the listening thinks that high taxes are not appropriate, then argues against the three reasons one by one.
Firstly, reading thinks that taxes discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors. But the listening says that if taxes are high, people will tend to choose cheaper cigarettes, which may contain harmful substances and bring greater health risk. Unhealthy food is quite similar. On the other hand, people will spend less money on health care. So taxes will not discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors and brings bad effect.
Secondly, the reading reckons that taxes is quite fair because the financial burden should be shifted from all of society to just those who choose to participate in t unhealthy activities. But listening thinks that it is unfair because people have different states of income. Suppose a person who earns a high income and another person who earns low income both consume one cigarette every day. They will have the same taxes, but it is a great burden on the one who earns a smaller income. So imposing taxes on unhealthy products is not fair for all people.
Thirdly, the reading says that a high rate of taxation increases revenue for the government, which can be used to provide government-supported services. However, listening thinks that high taxes also have downsides. High taxes on unhealthy products will bring millions of dollars to the government, then the government will be dependent on that income. The government will not make radical laws to eliminate unhealthy products such as "No smoking in all indoor and outdoor areas". So high taxes will make the government less likely to make strict laws.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1541.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15384615385 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63379996807 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 145.348785872 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491638795987 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.631945773 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.6470588235 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5882352941 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76470588235 7.06452816374 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344810482918 0.272083759551 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126341910151 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0888070075772 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228564066676 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519711421037 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => 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: 12.29 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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