时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   The cost of cigarettes has increased by 40% since 2010. The cost will increase by $1 a year for the next four years to $20 a packet of 20 cigarettes. Will this make smokers 1 quit smoking? Probably not, says a Treasury 2 report, because smoking is addictive 3. The report also said that smokers help the economy. The sales tax on cigarettes from New Zealand-grown tobacco brought in $145m to the government in the 9 months to the end of March. The import duty on imported cigarettes brought in $746m for the same period.


  However, smokers get sick and hospital care costs the government. A study done by the University of Otago in 2007 said that the actual cost to the Ministry 4 of Health from illnesses caused by smoking was $300m to $350m a year. Also, the Treasury report said that smokers die early so there is a saving from National Superannuation and old-age health care.
  However, Tariana Turia, co-leader of the Maori Party, wanted to increase the cost of a packet of cigarettes to $100 by 2025. She wants Maori to give up smoking and New Zealand to be a smoke-free country.
  Vocabulary
  Treasury – advises the government on budgets and other financial matters
  Grammar
  Note the preposition: increased by 40%; increased to $20
  If a packet of cigarettes cost $16 and was increased by $20, how much would it then cost?
  Questions
  Is alcohol addictive? Would drinkers reduce the amount of alcohol they buy if the cost increased?
  Do you think the increased cost of cigarettes will encourage smokers to quit?
  Could New Zealand become a smoke-free country in the future?

吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )
  • Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
  • Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的,成为习惯的
  • The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
  • Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
学英语单词
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2-chloro-4-nitrophenol
A burnt child dreads the fire.
afterfeel
alaph
alkali treatment
anchored retaining wall by tie rods
Androsace ovczinnikovii
ANOPLOGASTROIDEA
apex seal
Ban Khoum
barystrontianite
Bessa Monteiro
bread puddings
bset
calio
center timing station
chalybeate water
character address
chiacked
co-unite
combination tanned leather
comparative monadic test
compartmentation of air cushion
conduit outlet box
continuously regulated transmission
corn-market
cost accountants
crave
cresceleration
curable
dionysius of halicarnassus
econ
epicatechin
equicontinuous
evacuate
exocentrus seriatomaculatus
exponentialities
gastrodia confusoides
gee-gee
go to sb's head
gockleys
gudgeon pin circlip
helical polarization
herd book cattle
high-nickel iron-base alloy
histoleucocyte
Hyperglyphe perciformis
idomeneo
Ignicoccus
ill services
investment accounts
Jethro Tull
kunoichis
kymation
Leyden jar
liquid cooled
logfile
lubricating oil filter
macromedaeus crassimanus
Marathos
metacyclic group
miking
miscalculation
mud settling pit
nonserials
off-normal dilution water flow
Ovisot
Parakmeria omeiensis
peckford
peresimycin
philonotis fontana
phosphosugars
plasmafilter
plateros brevenotus
point unit vortex
price cycle
prior endorser
projected density
pulse generator clock
purely imaginary numbers
reconoiter
root face
running in machine
scratch memory
sharyl
short crack
silver medal winner
sowls
symmetrical polyphase source
taken root
the first order moment compensator
to mow the lawn
TPCF
transfer-deadlines
transmit synchronizer
vent opening
voltage ratio of a capacitor divider
vortex spring
wadmal, wadmaal, wadmol, wadmoll
west north west
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