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Iowa, a small midwestern state, finds itself in the national economic spotlight. For conservative commentators, Iowa has emerged as America’s tax-cutting champion, a paragon of fiscal responsibility. To critics it looks more like an example of economic recklessness.
Either way, Iowa is playing an outsized role in a bigger debate about how American states ought to manage their revenues and spending. Until a few years ago it had one of the highest income-tax rates in America. By 2026 it will be down to a flat tax of 3.9%. Iowa is far from alone. Some 25 states have cut individual income taxes over the past years. A handful, including Georgia and Idaho, are shifting to a flat tax. And a few others want to eliminate their income taxes altogether.
Virtually all states, regardless of political make-up, have lowered their citizens’ tax bills since 2021. Overall, this has been a rough decline in states’ tax revenues during this time, the steepest such reduction in at least four decades. But the most aggressive moves have been cuts to income taxes, and Iowa has been at the forefront of these efforts.
The Economist. A tax-cutting wave is sweeping over America’s states.
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Based on the ideas of the preceding text and on its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
Even though both forms are used to indicate an action in the
past, replacing “have lowered” (first sentence of the third
paragraph) with lowered would make the sentence
grammatically wrong.
“We will finish the report by Friday. We did not complete the data analysis yet, and the team is going to work late on Thursday.”
Analyze the following dialogue:
A: I usually enjoy hiking, but my sister ____.
B: So you don’t go on hikes very often, ____ you?
A: No, we don’t. But we went last month to a beautiful trail.
B: So ____ I! It was a fantastic experience.
Mark the alternative that correctly fills out, respectively, the gaps in the sentences above.
Examine the following sentences and mark the alternative that respectively indicates their verb tenses:
"I am finishing my work soon."
"She is going to study for hours."
Complete the sentence below:
Choose the alternative that presents the verb tense of the sentence below:
“He watched a movie yesterday.”
“Roma’s friendly with Toulouse called off due to concerns of public order”
Available at: https://romapress.net/romas-friendly-with-toulouse-called-off-due-to-concerns-of-public-order/. Accessed: July 23, 2024.
Identifying phrasal verbs and their meanings when reading a text plays an important role in reading comprehension. A suitable synonym for the PHRASAL VERB presented in the headline above is:
Teens feel more complex feelings more deeply
Once puberty has started, the characters that make up Riley’s emotions find that pressing any buttons gets a bigger reaction. And psychologically, that makes sense.
“One of the main features of emotional development in adolescence is this easy arousability of both positive and negative emotions,” Steinberg said. Their feelings are stronger than those of either children or adults.
And in adolescence, the brain has developed more of a capacity for abstract thought, bringing with it more complex emotions, said Damour, author of “The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents.”
They have more anxiety because they can more easily imagine future problems. They become more embarrassed because they better understand what others may be thinking of them. They become envious because they can see comparisons better between themselves and others, she added.
And ennui isn’t just a funny side effect. Acting like they don’t care is often an important escape hatch for teens in a social conundrum, Damour said.
“These are sophisticated emotions that require neurological development to come on the scene,” she said.
Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/15/entertainment/teen-emotions-inside-out-wellness/index.html. Accessed: July 23, 2024.
It is possible to affirm that the term “has developed” extracted from the passage above is classified as
Village’s Amateur Archaeologists Find Lost Tudor Palace
- When a group of amateur archaeologists set out to find the buried remains of a Tudor palace
- in their Northamptonshire village five years ago, they knew the odds were against them. “Many
- of us were brought up in the village, and you hear about this lost palace, and wonder whether
- it’s a myth or real. So we just wanted to find it”, said Chris Close, the chair of the Collyweston
- Historical and Preservation Society (Chaps) which made the discovery of the Palace of
- Collyweston in a back garden this year. “But we’re a bunch of amateurs. We had no money, no
- expertise, no plans, no artist impressions to go off, and nothing remaining of the palace. It was
- naivety and just hard work that has led us to it”.
- The site was found using geophysical surveys and ground-penetrating radar. Various
- attempts had been made in the 1980s and 90s to find Collyweston Palace, the home of Henry
- VII’s mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, without the advantage of modern technology,
- none had succeeded. The palace was famous during the 15th century and several historic events
- took place there. The pre-wedding celebrations of Margaret Tudor to James IV of Scotland in
- 1503 took place in the palace, and Henry VIII is recorded as holding court there on 16 and 17
- October 1541. By the mid-17th century, it had fallen into disrepair, and until the Chaps dig
- uncovered the palace walls in March, there was very little remaining evidence of its existence.
- “A number of things have only really come to light as we’ve done this project”, said Close.
- “As you do more and more research, and various different records start to become unearthed,
- we realized Collyweston had privy councils being run from here, which is of massive national
- importance”. Historians from the University of York helped verify the group’s findings and identify
- the palace through some uncovered stone moldings, and will work with Chaps on more
- excavations to further reveal the structure and conserve it for the future.
- The Chaps team, which comprises more than 80 members ranging from teenagers to people
- in their 70s and 80s, first set out their plan to find the palace in March 2018, using “local folktales
- and hearsay” to help refine their search area. They carried out geophysical surveys and used
- ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to help reveal the location of the palace walls, before securing
- permission from homeowners to excavate in gardens. “We’ve done it all on an absolute
- shoestring”, said Close. “We’ve basically done an £80,000-£90,000 project for roughly £13,000.
- For us, being a little society, to have achieved this with no money, or expertise, or plans, I think
- it’s something that the whole society should be proud of”.
(Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/06/tudor-collyweston-palace-northamptonshire-found-in-garden-by-amateur-archeologists - text especially adapted for this test).
The sentence “Many of us were brought up in the village” (l. 02-03) is in the simple past and passive voice. Which sentence below is also an example of a simple past passive structure?
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Netflix is trying to prove to the world that it's all grown up
Netflix is trying to persuade Wall Street that it is now all grown up. After squeezing out millions of additional subscribers via its password sharing crackdown and through the introduction of cheaper advertiser-supported plans, the streamer knows that its growth spurts are coming to an end — and now it wants investors to stop obsessing over those pesky membership numbers and instead focus on other metrics.
"In our early days, when we had little revenue or profit, membership growth was a strong indicator of our future potential. But now we're generating very substantial profit and free cash flow. We are also developing new revenue streams like advertising and our extra member feature, so memberships are just one component of our growth", Netflix told shareholders as it reported quarterly earnings.
To that end, Netflix said that it will no longer report quarterly subscriber numbers, starting in 2025. Alas, the metric that Wall Street has forever judged Netflix on — the metric that prompted legacy media companies to burn endless piles of cash in their bids to compete with the streamer — will be retired. The decision to shut off transparency on the metric represents a significant turning point in the streaming revolution. For years, Netflix has prided itself on being extraordinarily transparent. Now it is aiming to hold its cards closer to its chest. And given that streaming giant is the trendsetter in the space, one could expect that other media companies will be inspired by the company's move and also opt to cease reporting such data.
To be fair, what Netflix is saying isn't necessarily off base either. As the company shifts its business model away from subscriptions and toward advertising and other revenue streams, it makes sense to consider how much time users are spending on the service. The more content a user consumes on Netflix, the more likely they are to continue paying for the service, and the more money Netflix then makes from that single subscriber. "We're focused on revenue and operating margin as our primary financial metrics — and engagement (i.e. time spent) as our best proxy for customer satisfaction,” Netflix underscored in its letter to shareholders.
Regardless, less transparency in an already opaque industry is not ideal. The walled garden of streaming already lacks the same detailed viewership data that Nielsen collects on linear television broadcasters. Now, visibility into the streaming world will get even dimmer.
The announcement from Netflix managed to overshadow its otherwise stellar quarter. The company handily beat expectations and added a staggering 9.3 million subscribers, meaning it now boasts nearly 270 million in total. Netflix also beat analyst expectations on both earnings and revenue. However, it wasn't all good news. Netflix forecasted its subscriber growth to be lower in quarter two, chalking it up to “typical seasonality.” That led the stock to slide nearly 5% in after-hours trading.
Whether "typical seasonality” is solely to blame, or whether the streamer is simply starting to hit a ceiling, is hard to tell. Perhaps it is a mix of both. Whatever the cause, the stock sliding on the less-than-ideal outlook is a prime example of why Netflix wants Wall Street to stop focusing on its subscriber numbers. And, in one year's time, investors won't have a choice.
Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/media/netflix-subscription-numbers/index.html
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"The decision to shut off transparency on the metric (...)"
The past simple form and the past participle form of the verb in italics are respectively:
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