QUESTION 1

In the reading passage we read about de unintended consequences that a law could bring as an unexpected consequences of the publication of that law. In the listening passage, we hear about an example of the unintended consequences of certain law about taxes.

As we notice, in the reading passage the unintended consequences may turn out into positive or negative. Some examples are provide, like the example mentioned in the article about ban cars from the main street, it could be positive if it improve the health of the citizen, but it could be negative if it brings problems to the business.

Then in the listening passage we hear about a case where the unintended consequences were negatives. In this case increasing revenue from taxes could be good for the government, but for the employees and the incomes that the company could earn could be bad, because they began to lose their jobs. Also the people began to buy less things because they do not want to pay more taxes.

As we can see the listening passage presents an other negative example about the concept that is presented in the reading passage, the unintended consequences.