GRE阅读练习：墨西哥征收软饮料消费税.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：墨西哥征收软饮料消费税 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：墨西哥征收软饮料消费税 GRE考试精品课程指导  LA MANSION steakhouse inside Mexicos lower house of Congress has become the headquarters of a lobbying effort the likes of which congressmen say they have never seen before.  墨西哥国会下议院LA大厦内的牛排餐厅已成为游说广场，国会议员们说他们以前从未见过。  There is so much wining and dining that one lawmaker, proposing a bill on October 15th to regulate the lobbyists, claimed he was talking to a half-empty floor because his colleagues were too busy being schmoozed at La Mansion.  这里有这么多的美酒和美食，一个国会议员于10月15日提出了一项法案以规范游说，因为他的同事们忙于在La大厦闲聊，他抱怨说自己在对地板说话。  The lobbyists work mainly for soft-drinks companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and their respective Mexican bottlers Femsa and Cultiba.  这些游说者主要为软饮料公司，如可口可乐、百事公司和他们在墨西哥的饮料瓶公司Femsa和Cultiba工作。  Their focus is a proposal currently under debate in Congress to slap an excise tax of one peso on to the price of a litre of fizzy drinks.  他们关注的焦点是一个建议，目前国会正在辩论的一升碳酸饮料征收一比索的消费税。  Though the industry has faced down consumer activists in the past in Coca-Colas biggest market by volume outside the United States, this initiative comes directly from President Enrique Pea Nieto.  虽然行业之前说服了消费者活动家，这里是可口可乐在美国以外最 大的销售市场，这一举措直接来自总统恩里克·佩尼亚·涅托。  The lobbyists may have blundered in their attempt to kill it.  游说者在试图扼杀此税的努力中做错了。  The governments argument is simple.  政府的理由很简单。  Mexicans consume too many fizzy drinks.  墨西哥人消耗太多的碳酸饮料。  The habit has helped make the country one of the most obese in the world, and obesity is a killer:  这个习惯使墨西哥成为世界上最肥胖的国家之一，而肥胖是一个杀手：  Mexicos mortality rates from diabetes are staggeringly high. The government proposed the sin tax to discourage soft-drinks consumption.  墨西哥的糖尿病死亡率高得惊人。政府提出了罪恶税以阻止软饮料消费。  The industrys reaction has been apoplectic.  业界的反应是愤怒。  In fullads in national newspapers it has argued that the tax is regressive and satanises sof