Listening audioscript

USING POINTS AND EXAMPLES FROM THE LECTURE, EXPLAIN THE 
ECONOMIC POLICY OF MERCANTILISM.
 
WRITING 
 
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Question 1.
Listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main 
points of the listening passage. Then respond to the question. 
(Woman) 
Laws should protect citizens from making uninformed decisions. Since 
there are no studies of the long-term effects of performance enhancing 
drugs, then the government is obligated to protect athletes from the 
potentially harmful effects of these substances. States have been 
steadily enacting laws to protect people from other dangerous 
substances and activities, such as smoking and driving a motorcycle 
without a helmet. Allowing the use of PEDs in sports is simply another 
potentially dangerous action. And personal choice should not be 
considered a valid reason for allowing PEDs, because free choice is not 
the issue in organized sports. Sports are organized and, um… governed 
to protect players. Rules are put into place in sports to make them fair 
and to make them safer, and so there is little free choice when 
participating in them. Now, if they are not banned, then only players and 
teams with greater wealth will have access to the latest and most 
advanced of these substances. This creates an unfair playing field, in 
which only select teams can equally compete. Unfair advantages could 
lead to a destruction of competitiveness and subsequent loss of 
audience interest in the given sport. 
HOW DOES THE INFORMATION IN THE LISTENING PASSAGE CAST 
DOUBT ON THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THE READING PASSAGE? 

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