You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Today the high sales of popular consumer goods reflect the power of advertising and not the real needs of the society in which they are sold. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Some people hold that it is the eye-catching advertisements not the demand that drives the
products
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product
sale. I think advertisement-promoted, low-quality products would only stand out for a short time unless they were
consumer
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consumed
-friendly enough. On one hand, the rapidly-developing advertisement industry pushes customers to shop irrationally. Thanks to the technology and supports from government, advertisements are affordable enough to dot around nearly everywhere, from the screen of different kinds to the
backstreets
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. Potential consumers are being
brian
that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
brain
born
borne
-washed non-stop at any time.
Also
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, they are becoming so vivid and cheerful that encourages people purchase without
further
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thinking.
For example
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, the American-brand cookies, Oreo is promoted by a strong advertising company worldwide.
This
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cute and tasty
cookies
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cookie
show
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shows
up in a fancy way continuously, tempting people from all ages to eat it. On the other, we can’t deny it is the everyday goods that always accounts for the high sale. Karl Marx said that demand determines consumption. Consumers wouldn’t take out their purse, if the product cost the Earth or was useless. Despite the fact that the duplicates of Picasso’s masterpieces are well-advertised due to his fame, only a small portion of people into
arts
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the arts
will pay for the pricy works. Common consumers only pay for everyday
good
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
food
,
such
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as food, drinks and clothes. In short, outstanding advertisements indeed do a
favor
promote over another
favour
to the products on the market to some degree.
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, the fact that most consumers only pay for what they need cannot be denied.
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