标题: 650-720 —AWA大礼包(高频题+模板) [打印本页]
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:04 标题: 650-720 —AWA大礼包(高频题+模板)
这是我一战复习时精心整理的,虽然费了不少时间,但是经过梳理,自己思路倍儿清了,也同时有了应对各种问题的策略。二战时,就根据JJ捋了一遍,非常快速高效。里面的模板大家参考,千万要自己开发自己的。
先上目录:
1. 复习策略
2. issue提纲
3. argument提纲
4. issue模板
5. argument模板
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:04
06年10月至08年4.20的AWA出题统计(打*表示黄金80也有)
Argument | Issue |
频率 | 题号 | 频率 | 题号 |
54 | 28* | | |
53 | | 47 | |
46 | | 46 | |
45 | | 45 | 87* |
44 | | 44 | |
43 | 52* | 43 | |
42 | 44* | 42 | 29* 39* 42* |
41 | 42* | 41 | 5* 132* |
40 | | 40 | 2* |
39 | 38* 105* | 39 | |
38 | | 38 | 27* 36* 115* |
37 | 106* | 37 | 33* 68* |
36 | 16* | 36 | |
35 | 10* 108* | 35 | 57* 81* |
34 | 9* 14* 110* 125* | 34 | B1 |
33 | 12* | 33 | 34* 62* 100* |
32 | 6* 39* 97* | 32 | 31* B5 |
31 | 1* A3* | 31 | 21* 40* 131* |
30 | 31* 34* B1* | 30 | 9* 13* 107* B2 B10 |
29 |
40* 62 *
| 29 | 60* A2 |
28 | | 28 | 37* |
27 | 11* 72* B6 | 27 | 12* 15* |
26 | A1* B3 | 26 | 24* 26* |
25 | | 25 | 32* |
24 | | 24 | |
23 | 43* 47* B9 | 23 | 45* 75* 111 * |
22 | 86* | 22 | |
21 | 32* B8 | 21 |
B4
|
20 |
55* 70* 124*
| 20 | 65* 112* |
19 | 112 | 19 | 22* |
18 | 4 | 18 | |
17 | | 17 | |
16 | 64 | 16 | |
15 | 92 114 | 15 | |
14 | | 14 | 23 |
13 | 95 | 13 | 11 |
12 | | 12 | |
11 | 13 | 11 |
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10 | | 10 | |
9 | | 9 | 130 |
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:05
1. 复习策略- 优先练习(3月)JJ和高频统计(出现次数>10)中都出现的题目
- 其次练习JJ未出现但是非常高频的题目(出现次数>20)
- 再其次联系JJ出现的低频题目(出现次数<=10)
- 90高频+80黄金+JJ
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:05
2. issue提纲87. 7月6次, 6月8次,5月5次,4月3次(22)
“As technologies and the demand for certain services change, many workers will lose their jobs. The responsibility for those people to adjust to such change should belong to the individual worker, not to government or to business.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with specific reasons and/or examples drawn from your reading, your observations, or your own experience.
Thesis sentence:While individuals have primary responsibility for learning new skills and finding work, both industry and government have some obligation to provide them the means of doing so
View1:
l agree that individuals must assume primary responsibility for adjusting to job obsolescence, especially since our educational system has been preparing us for it。现在的社会也提供了机会:很多学校提供短期的培训,人们可以参加保持自己keep up with the changes of the technologies and new direction of businesses。第二,只有个人采取主动,才能从根本上解决问题。否则merely rely on the help coming from government or business,人们会变得消极become passive and lose enterprise
View2:
However, industry should bear some of the responsibility as well. It is industry, after all, that determines the particular directions technological progress and subsequent social change will take. Moreover in the long run, doing so will also benefit the business.
View3:
Moreover, 政府也应该采取一些行动。政府作为一个社会的管理者supervisor,有责任保证全社会的well being. 应该帮助个人完成适应adjustment. 可以通过提供一些insurance for unemployment, advice for the occupational choice, necessary information of the new trend of business…或者建立一些相应的regulation,以帮助就业人员顺利渡过transformation。
29. “Too many people think only about getting results. The key to success, however, is to focus on the specific task at hand and not to worry about results.”
What do you think this piece of advice means, and do you think that it is, on the whole, worth following? Support your views with reasons and/or examples drawn from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis sentence:result固然重要,但是没有过程的积累,无以得到理想的结果,更何况result并非成功的唯一标志,过程中的积累和成长更重要
View1:result的设立(大到strategy小到tactic),并且在执行过程中不断的review progress和milestone都是成功达成result并不可少的。Result明确了方向,motivate人们选择手段。
View2:只想到结果的人而不注意手边的事情的人往往因为太迫切的期待结果而不屑于把手边看似琐碎的小事做好.事实上每一个目标的达成都是需要无数这样的事情集合在一起才可以达成的
View3:很多时候result并不是成功的唯一衡量标准。其实每个single task的完成本身既是一种result,又是下一个task的基础。在这个循而复始的过程中得到不断的积累和成长。
View4:当然,如果只注意手边的事情也是不可取的.因为一直这样就缺少了高屋建瓴的技能往往会过分注意细节而忽略了从整体上的把握.每一件事情就都变成是在孤立的完成而不是在为一个核心pivotal的目标而服务这样会忽略了重点降低效率。To ensure good results, one should instead take a balanced approach to the task at hand (adv. 在手边, 在附近, 即将到来). By a balanced approach I mean paying attention to both the desired result and the specific tasks that are required to achieve it.
39. 7月1次, 6月2次,5月5次,4月5次(13)
“It is difficult for people to achieve professional success without sacrificing important aspects of a fulfilling personal life.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading
Theme:两者not mutually exclusive, but increasingly difficult to achieve nowadays
View1:
Undeniably, today’s professionals must work long hours to keep their heads above water (keep one’s heads above water: v. 免遭灭顶之灾, 不负债), let alone to get ahead in life financially. This is especially true in Japan, where cost of living, coupled with corporate culture, compel professional males to all but (adv. 几乎, 差一点) abandon their families and literally to work themselves to death. While the situation here in the states (United States) may not be as critical, the two-income family is now the norm, not by choice but by necessity.
View2: However, our society’s professionals are taking steps to remedy the problem. First, they are inventing ways—such as job sharing and telecommuting (远程交换,远程办公)—to ensure that personal life does not take a backseat (n. 后座, 次要位置) to career. Second, they are setting priorities and living those hours outside the workplace to the fullest. In fact, professional success usually requires the same time-management skills that are useful to find time for family, hobbies, and recreation. One need only look at the recent American presidents—Obama,Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Carter—to see that it is possible to lead a balanced life which includes time for family, hobbies, and recreation, while immersed in a busy and successful career.
42. 6月4次,5月5次,4月3次(12)
“Scientists are continually redefining the standards for what is beneficial or harmful to the environment. Since these standards keep shifting, companies should resist changing their products and processes in response to each new recommendation until those recommendations become government regulations.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading
Theme:companies should take proactive attitudes rather than reactive, to the benefit of both itself and the society as a whole; legal regulations are minimum requirements and should not prevent companies from continually keeping up with the latest standards and improving products/process so as to reduce damage to environment
View1: 随着人们的环保意识日益加强,we are seeing increasing number of standards by scientists, they’re result of more advanced technology and higher living standards.企业无法也没有必要chang their products and processes in response to each new recommendation until those recommendations。否则企业会疲命于改造自己的产品和流程,而无法专心做研发和营销,同时日益增加的成本也会企业在市场上缺乏竞争力,最终成为失败者。比如除了国家法律对汽车尾气排放的标准(veihcle emission standard)外,不同地区的科学家又会根据当地的天气,人口和汽车量提出更适合当地的排放标准。如果汽车行业整天忙于改造自己的产品以符合新出的标准,并因此不断的修改流程,工艺和检验标准,那么势必会不利于其新产品的开发,也会因此耗费巨大,从而失去市场竞争优势。
View2 同时,企业作为社会公民,有企业的责任,可以时时关注新出的standards。,并且分析如何在设计产品和流程的时候,即使无法做大的改变,尽量减少或者避免对环境产生负担,比如企业可以带动上下游一起规范化,这样非但确保绿色的供应链,同时降低了一家的成本。再比如在产品中融入环保意识,引导绿色消费,从而为自己赢得负责人的美誉,得到消费者的信赖。
View3: 等待政府出台相关法律法规再做改变的企业很被动,而且法律政策往往只是最低要求,并且带有一定的惩罚性。如果企业为了短期利益,完全不顾环保要求,等到新法出台才行动,不但短期内可能为了应付新规定而不得不分散精力,同时也因为滞后的行动可能lose market share to competitors who leads action。
5. 7月7次, 6月2次,5月4次,4月3次(16)
“All groups and organizations should function as teams in which everyone makes decisions and shares responsibilities and duties. Giving one person central authority and responsibility for a project or task is not an effective way to get work done.”
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above? Support your views with reasons and/or specific examples drawn from your own work or school experiences, your observations, or your reading
Theme:Delegation and centralization- not necessarily one better than the other. They all have advantages and disadvantages. And it is a case-by-case discussion
View1: shared decision and responsibility有其优点,motivate, jury practice适合delegation,追求公平
View2: trauma unit in a hospital适合centralization,追求实效专业
View3: 即使在shared情况下,两者也需要合理的结合。天性是自私的。In many circumstances, the personal goal may be different from or even contrary to the goal of the group. 如果任由每个人作出决定,很可能作出相反的,产生很多矛盾。incompatible conflict. 比如企业中,每个员工都想争取最多的工资,但也许与企业cost-cutting policy想矛盾. 这时候,就需要one person with the authority and responsibility for a project来协调assort with the different interests。synthesize the various voices of all the group members and make the final decision.这样才能有效地领导一个团队,不会偏离最初的目标stray from the initial goal of the task。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:06
132. 7月1次,6月1次,5月4次(6)
“Governments should not be responsible for regulating businesses and other organizations. Instead, society would benefit if the organizations themselves assumed responsibility for establishing and enforcing their own standards and regulations.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1.
too much interference from the government would undoubtedly impede the development of businesses and organizations. 1, 政府干涉过多可能或扼杀企业的积极性positivity. 显然如果没有自主决定the power of independently making decisions, 那么eventually, lead to the less active economy. 2, 政府过度的exorbitant干涉可能会打乱市场发展的自然规律disturb the natural order of the market. 比如regulation on the type of product 可能市场上的excessive demand or supply. 无数例子证明政府干预只能是短期的,或者只能保护少数行业的利益。
2.
但是也不是说政府should assume no necessary supervision over the business. 首先, 毕竟,企业的一切行为都是为了利益最大化. 缺乏管理,很可能产生很多negative results.政府有义务确保keep the national market in healthy condition. 如果缺乏suitable regulation, 有可能会出现恶性的竞争inordinate competition. 又比如Enron cheat on the financial condition. 第二, 政府有时要帮助企业度过recession.依靠企业自身的力量, 可能不能overcome the huge destroy of the recession.
3.
要有适当的regulation, 同时adequate freedom. 才能健康地发展
2. 7月2次, 6月3次,5月7次,4月6次(18)
“It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1. individual country考虑的出发点都是本国的利益,不可能期待他们会主动牺牲以保全大环境。没有motive。即使有这方面的实施,但是可能因为本国经济发展的需要,而设定的目标很低。
2. 保护资源是全球的问题,指望单个国家作出牺牲是不够的。因为在全球化经济发展下,资源几乎是全球运转的。比如,美国会向中国进口木材等原料。所以需要合作。大的跨国公司在其中扮演重要的角色。比如,开发非洲的,有很多是欧洲的公司,跨国公司的举动会影响到很多国家的经济政策
(例:UN climate conference 2011 Copenhagen, Talks are deadlocked僵持 over emission cuts and slow down global warming,13天仍没有一个统一的法律约束文件,进程艰难,平衡各方利益,只是一个开始,long term)
3. individual country在环保事业中需要指导,资金和技术支持
27. “A company’s long-term success is primarily dependent on the job satisfaction and the job security felt by the company’s employees.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis:承认job satisfaction很重要,但是未必same for job security,而且还有别的重要因素
1. I agree that business success is more likely when employees feel satisfied with their jobs. Employees who dislike the workplace or their jobs are not likely to reach their potential performance levels; they may tend to arrive late for work, perform their tasks in an unimaginative and sluggish manner, or take excessive sick leaves. Nevertheless, a firm’s long-term success may equally result from other factors such as finding a market niche for products, securing a reputation for quality products and services, or forming a synergistic alliance with a competitor. This list hardly exhausts all the factors that can contribute to a firm’s ultimate success, and no one of them—including job satisfaction—is pivotal in every case.
2. While job satisfaction clearly boosts employee morale and contributes to the overall success of a company, the same cannot be said for job security. Admittedly an employee worried about how secure his or her job is might be less creative or productive as a result. By the same token, however, too much confidence in the security of one’s job can foster complacency, which, in turn, may diminish employees’ creativity and productivity. Moreover, many employees actually place job security relatively low on the list of what they want in a job. In fact, more and more workers today are positively uninterested in long-term job security; instead, they are joining firms for the sole purpose of accomplishing near-term professional goals, then leaving to face the next challenge.
3. 保证企业long term success还有很多重要因素,管理机制,用人之道,战略规划,执行能力等
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:06
36. 6月 3次,5月>1次
“Businesses and other organizations have overemphasized the importance of working as a team. Clearly, in any human group, it is the strong individual, the person with the most commitment and energy, who gets things done.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: 团队合作更重要
1. 每个个人都是组织的一个组成成员。每个人都各司其职。尤其是在科学技术如此进步的今天很少有人能象作者所说的那样独立完成一项任务。事实上每个人都是完成了工作的一个部分一个方面,而合在一起才有了团队的成功
2. 一个公司一个组织并不是所有成员的简单加总.如果是这样的话,那么也就没有必要形成一个团队了每个人独立完成就好了.事实上一个团队可以把个体有机的组织在一起,使整体的运做更有效率更有成效,这才识组织存在的原因.
3. 但是个人的主观能动性在team中也很重要。over-emphasizing teamwork can be counterproductive for an organization. A successful team requires both natural leaders and natural followers; otherwise, a team will accomplish little. Undue emphasis on teamwork may quell initiative among natural leaders, thereby thwarting team goals. Also, teamwork can be overemphasized with a commissioned sales force of highly competitive and autonomic individuals. Overemphasis on teamwork here might stifle healthy competition, thereby defeating a firm’s objectives. In other organizational areas, however, teamwork is critical. For example, a product-development team must progress in lock-step (锁步) fashion toward common goals, such as meeting a rollout (: the public introduction of a new aircraft; broadly: the widespread public introduction of a new product) deadline
115. 7月5次, 6月3次, 5月9次(17)
“Technology ultimately separates and alienates people more than it serves to bring them together.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
借鉴句型:the characteristics of a technology have a decisive influence on… technology can be a primary determinant of…
1.
尤其是现在快节奏的社会,面对面的交流变得困难,科技解决了问题,使交流变得更加快捷,方便
2.
扩大交友圈子,网上平台开发可以帮助做生意,相亲,传递紧急信息,募捐
3.
world is flatter with the tech advance, people work in virtual community, company operates on virtual network
4.
科技拉开人的距离只是一种表象,可能是别因素造成
33. 7月1次, 6月2次,5月12次,4月5次(20)
“People are likely to accept as a leader only someone who has demonstrated an ability to perform the same tasks that he or she expects others to perform.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
5月1次
类似:做领导的要想让人信服,就必须要有相应的专业能力。
1.
诚然,如果在其领导的领域内几乎一窍不通,一个领导很难得到下属的信任和支持,会被看作layperson. 比如,人们无法想象一个不具备任何电脑知识的人,该如何领导一个庞大的IT企业,比如MICROSOFT在激烈的市场中竞争。领导者在某些素养方面一定要起模范作用,比如对公司的忠诚,对下属真诚等。同样,员工也无法信任一个不以身作则的领导,比如integrity,对员工的尊重等
2.
但是,这是否意味着作为领导,必须要有能力完成每一项他要求下属做的事呢?这个问题,与领导和员工的真正作用有很大关系!首先,领导的职责是制定长期的发展方针,并且保证这个方针的贯彻执行,adhere to their strategic plans不被偏离。组织员工共同合作完成任务。on the other hand, 员工的作用是各司其职,更加具体的specific task.
3.
从以上两种职责不难看出,领导与员工起到significantly different functions,让领导完成每一个subordinate要做的工作,unfair的。比如,不能blame a CEO for lacking the skills of typing。要对下属做的事有很好的了解,但不一定都要做。否则,领导就失去了意义,成为了一个全能的工人。omnipotent worker with all kinds of skills. 同样,领导之所以为领导,也必须去完成更多员工无法无力完成的,担负更重的责任。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:06
68. 7月2次, 6月2次,5月5次,4月6次(15)
“Since the physical work environment affects employee productivity and morale, the employees themselves should have the right to decide how their workplace is designed.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
View1:work character have great influence on the design of workplace. If employees are allowed to design their own office they would surely have higher morale and work more efficiently.
Evidence: consulting company must avoid too much decoration in order to appear professionally and dependably. To some creative work such as AD agency and fashion design, the decorating of workplace is important not only for simulating inspirations but also for showing creative abilities.
View2: also, the designment of workplace should be compromise to company culture.
Evidence: Consider the influence it has done to co-workers and the harmony in work place.
57. 7月1次, 6月1次,5月3次,4月3次(8)
“Everywhere, it seems, there are clear and positive signs that people are becoming more respectful of one another’s differences.”
In your opinion, how accurate is the view expressed above? Use reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading to develop your position.
1.
cultural difference: The increased globalization has provided more opportunities than ever before to contact and acknowledge cultures of other nations. 对于不同的宗教信仰和文化习俗,人们采取了更加宽容more tolerant attitude toward dissimilar culture, including religion and custom from other nations. 比方说:China had long closed itself to the outside of the world for many centuries before it opened the door in 1980’s. 在那段时间里,西方文明被简单地理解为怪异和粗鲁的considered to be strange or rude. 而现在,接触了更多后,中国也认识到了不同,并且充分地接受和借鉴even learn from他们。
2.
in one national community: thanks to the public communication and propaganda of how difference of each subgroup in the same society has contributed to the overall community, diversity is widely accepted, and this is also fused into education, people are more tolerant, and encouraged to display themselves as a diversified individual
3.
有成绩,但仍然需要努力。Today much of it is enforced by law, overt disrespect still exists in every level of the life, 对不同的高度容忍体现文明的发展程度。sign of… 之类。所以要一起努力。
81 7月1次,.6月2次,5月6次,4月1次(10)
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by conforming to conventional practices or ways of thinking.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis sentence: Whether a conformist can achieve lasting success or "get rich" in business depends primarily on the type of business involved. Iconoclasts rise to the top in newer industries and in those where consumer demand is in constant flux. Conformists ultimately prevail, however, in traditional service industries ensconced in systems and regulations.
View1: In consumer-driven industries, innovation, product differentiation, and creativity are crucial to lasting success
Evidence: retail and media sectors. And in technology, companies that fail to break away from last year's paradigm are soon left behind by the competition.
View2:
然后在以文化产业,尤其是地方传统文化产业为代表的产业中,保持传统,并且能传承发扬这种传统,是中心人物。如果戏院的老板一心只想创新,而冒险肆意改变曲艺的传统,加紧了很多貌似流行的元素,非但是曲目变得不伦不类,反而激怒观众,影响经济效益。古建筑的保护,如果标新立异,就会失去协调
B1. The primary responsibility of citizens is to obey their nation’s civil and criminal laws.
1.
I concede that the speaker is on the correct philosophical side of this issue, for the claim that it is every citizen’s responsibility to obey laws and nations.
2.
On the other hand, however, I must point out that obeying laws is the basic responsibility, but not as the author suggest, the primary one.
3.
Besides obeying laws, people also have other responsibilities.
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:07
34. 7月4次, 6月1次,5月4次,4月4次(13)
“All citizens should be required to perform a specified amount of public service. Such service would benefit not only the country as a whole but also the individual participants.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1.
对于国家和社会的好处:首先,强制性mandatory social work可以增加人力资源——因为social work的wage比较低,所以在非强制的情况下,只有少数人愿意参加,这样导致了人员的不足;广泛的参与extensive participation可以引起大家的重视——激发人们更加爱护公共设施,从而降低整个expense on the maintaining. 因为公共设施becomes a aggregation of the hard work of all the citizens. 人们不付出努力,就不会珍惜。再比如在重大event中用学生志愿者。国家在很短时间内很难抽调如此庞大的unemployed力量来支援。
2.
对参与者的好处: The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
Flaubert(the great novelist)公共服务可以使人们更加意识到自己的社会责任感duty, 也同时有益于平时的工作; 可以增加人与人的交流, 在完全没有压力的环境下, 心灵得到放松.比如参加世博会的学生志愿者们都表示通过这次活动,使他们更加了解自己的国家和城市,同时也锻炼了很多能力。
3.
当然, 完全强制有可能引起stimulate抵触emotion of repellence, 也要注意方法,同时不要影响正常的工作,以培养为主要手段,引导国民加入公共服务,使国家和个人都有所收获。
62. “What education fails to teach us is to see the human community as one. Rather than focus on the unique differences that separate one nation from another, education should focus on the similarities among all people and places on Earth.”
What do you think of the view of education expressed above? Explain, using reasons and/or specific examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
View1: It is very important for education to teach us unity. Since all nations interact with each other more and more thoroughly, no one is an island in the world.
Evidence: unify citizens from diverse backgrounds, reduced ethnic, religious or political factions and wars. Improve cooperation, mutual altruism and finally harmonious humanity
View2: While it is also important for education to teach us diversity in order to improve understanding and respect between nations.
Evidence: democratic ideal of tolerance, educating people about diversity might even produce a unifying effect—by promoting understanding and appreciation among people from all backgrounds.
View3: need balance, either extremes are not good
100. 7月2次,6月5次,5月10次(17)
“If a nation is to ensure its own economic success, it must maintain a highly competitive educational system in which students compete among themselves and against students from other countries.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: I don’t think it is a good idea to design an educational system that focuses mainly on competition. For although a little competition might produce desired results, in the long run too much competition will be destructive. Instead, I believe that our national economic success will be better promoted by an educational system that encourages cooperative learning among students, and with students from other countries.
View 1: Granted, competitiveness is an important aspect of human nature. And, properly directed, it can motivate us to reach higher and produce more, not to mention meet deadlines. But being competitive fixes our focus externally, on marking and beating the progress of others with whom we compete. Such external motivation can direct our attention away from creative solutions to our problems, and away from important human values like cooperation and fair play (公平比赛, 公平条件). Indeed, a highly competitive environment can foster cheating and ruthless back-stabbing within an organization, and ill-will and mistrust among nations. In the extreme case, competition between nations becomes war.
View2: On the other hand, an environment of cooperation encourages us to discover our common goals and the best ways to achieve them. At the national and international levels, our main interests are in economic wellbeing and peace. In fact, economic success means little without the security of peace. Thus, global peace becomes a powerful incentive for developing educational models of cooperative learning, and implementing exchange programs and shared research projects among universities from different countries.
View3: Moreover, research suggests that cooperative settings foster greater creativity and productivity than competitive ones. This has been shown to be the case both in institutions of higher learning and in business organizations. If true, it seems reasonable to argue that national economic success would be similarly tied to cooperative rather than competitive effort.
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:08
31. 7月3次, 6月7次,5月5次,4月3次(18)
“Financial gain should be the most important factor in choosing a career.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: economic gain should not be the overriding factor in selecting a career
View1: The main problem with selecting a career primarily on the basis of money is that for many people to do so would be to ignore one’s personal values, needs, and larger life goals. Indeed, many people appreciate this notion when they choose their career. For example, some people join one of the helping professions, such as nursing, teaching or social work, well aware that their career will not be financially lucrative. Their choice properly stems from an overriding altruistic desire, not from an interest in financial gain. Others choose to pursue intellectual or creative fulfillment—as writers, artists, or musicians—knowing that they are trading off dollars for non-tangible rewards. Still others forego economic gain to work as full-time parents; for these people, family and children are of paramount importance in life. Finally, many people subordinate economic prospects to their desire to live in a particular location; these people may place a high value on recreation, their physical health, or being near a circle of friends.金钱不是衡量职业的最重要因素,如果只是专注金钱的数字,可能会让人放弃了更大的追求和理想。很多机会都是蕴藏在low gain的工作机会里的。
View2:Another problem with focusing primarily on money when selecting a career is that it ignores the notion that making money is not an end in the end of itself, but rather a means of obtaining material goods and services and of attaining important goals—such as providing security for oneself and one’s family, lifelong learning, or freedom to travel or to pursue hobbies. Acknowledging the distinction, one may nevertheless select a career on the basis of money—since more money can buy more goods and services as well as the security, freedom, and time to enjoy them. Even so, one must strike a balance, for if these things that money is supposed to provide are sacrificed in the pursuit of money itself, the point of having money—and of one’s career selection—has been lost.金钱不是职业的目的,只是一种手段。
View3: Financial gain is certainly one factor to consider when selecting a career. But many people do not, and should not, focus on this factor as the main one. The role that money plays in career choice should depend on the priorities, goals and values of the particular person making the choice.当然,在一些特殊的情况下,可能金钱会起到主导作用,但那也只是短期的权宜之计。expedient
B5. Public figures should avoid expressing opinions about things that they have not personally experienced or been directly affected by.
21. “Job security and salary should be based on employee performance, not on years of service. Rewarding employees primarily for years of service discourages people from maintaining consistently high levels of productivity.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: rewarding should be based on a matrix of both
View1: 表现杰出的人理应从各方面给予奖励Companies should adjust their pay schedules so that the largest salaries go to the most productive employees. As incentive
Evidence: sales commission
View2: 年限也理应考虑进去。对于表现稳定的中坚力量:employees who perform their jobs satisfactorily should be given regular, though small, service-based pay increases—also for two reasons, cost of living is steadily rising; 对于perfomance好年限长的员工:更应该特别对待,这样才有一套以人为本的激励制度
Evidence: corporate well being – paid vacation, saving fund
40. 7月3次, 6月2次,5月7次,4月4次(16)
“With the increasing emphasis on a global economy and international cooperation, people need to understand that their role as citizens of the world is more important than their role as citizens of a particular country.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: Good citizenship at one level is often compatible with good citizenship at another. In fact, being a good citizen in one social domain can help one be a better citizen in another.
View1: 但这不意味着人们就要discard or weaken their role as citizens of one nation. 其实两者并不是incompatible, 更多时候, 可以作为complementary one—and can even be synergistic.比如the preservation of traditional culture, 人们作为一国公民,保护自己独特文化的同时, 实际上也为全球的diversity of culture作出了positive effort. 比如, 为一个国家的public service付出努力的同时, 很可能激发起公民的社会责任感和compassion and responsibility, 参与到国际public service 中, 比如很多charitarian就开始从对本国的慈善事业subsidize the school in one nation也激发起对attention to the education in the international scope.
View2: 某些问题,无关哪个level的citizenship,都是共同的focus eg energy,大家都面临能源问题,如果不好好利用现有的能源,大家都将面临短缺;同时大家都面临环境污染问题,这是个没有国界的问题,需要大家联合起来一起努力一起面对一起解决
View3:
两者并没有孰重孰轻之分,需要权衡利弊,不仅仅因为world大于nation而妄下判定。比如维和部队的成员,虽然是中国人,但是当他们执行维和任务的时候,他们就是世界维和力量的一员,认真完成任务。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:08
131. “We can learn more about a society by observing how its people spend their leisure time than by observing them at work.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1. Undeniable, the speaker is on the philosophical side of issue, for his/her claim that what people do to spend their leisure time indicates the level of the society's civilization. From the literacy of that society we can interpret the citizens' spirit world; from the sports they do we can tell the conditions of their bodies, even from the pure entertainment activities of a society, we can also get some information such as what are the in-things of the society.
2. What people do at work reflect the society's civilization from another perspective including the how developed the productivity is, how efficient a society it is, and so on so forth.
3. Moreover, except for the above two standards, there are still some more crucial factors that may reflect a society, such as architects, history and even language.
9. 7月5次, 6月3次,5月7次,4月6次(21)
“Employees should keep their private lives and personal activities as separate as possible from the workplace.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1过分公私不分会影响工作,要有discipline, 要focus
2巧妙结合,其实有帮助
integrating personal life with work can foster a workplace ambiance that helps everyone do a better job, thereby promoting success for the organization. Engaging coworkers in occasional conversation about personal interests and activities can help build collegiality among coworkers that adds to their sense of common purpose on the job. Managers would be well advised to participate in and perhaps even plan the sharing of personal information—as a leadership tool as well as a morale booster. An employee feels valued when the boss takes time to ask about the employee’s family or recent vacation. The employee, in turn, is likely to be more loyal to and cooperative with the boss. Company-sponsored social events—picnics, parties, excursions, and so forth—also help to produce greater cohesiveness in an organization, by providing opportunities for employees to bond with one another in ways that translate into better working relationships.
3每个人都既有工作又有生活,不可能isolate,更好的结合,其实能起到促进作用。只要注意balance/integrity
13. 6月1次,5月10次,4月2次(13)
“Responsibility for preserving the natural environment ultimately belongs to each individual person, not to government.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: While nearly everyone would agree in principle that certain efforts to preserve the natural environment are in humankind’s best interest, environmental issues always involve a tug of war among conflicting political and economic interests. For this reason, and because serious environmental problems are generally large in scale, government participation is needed to ensure environmental preservation
1, The proponents of this assertion may argue that the natural environment ultimately belongs to each individual person, therefore, it is reasonable to attribute to each person the responsibility for preserving it. a, 必须要承认的是,我们共同使用环境资源,the condition of the environment may have directly effect on each person。所以,人人都has the obligation to protect the environment from being polluted. b, 只有人人都积极地保护环境,
2. However, to leave all the responsibility to individuals is hardly a wise decision.
(1) 没有政府的监督,很少有人自愿作出牺牲以保护环境(voluntarily make sacrifice to protect the environment.)比如如果政府不forbidden smoking in public,smokers may enjoy their cigarettes whenever they want
(2)即使愿意,individuals (and private corporations owned by individuals) tend to act on behalf of their own short-term economic and political interest, not on behalf of the environment or the public at large.
3. 社会有责任,有义务也有能力,调动多方资源,联合各国,全面布局,立法,引导人们环保
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:09
107. “The most effective way for managers to assign work is to divide complex tasks into their simpler component parts. This way, each worker completes a small portion of the task but contributes to the whole.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: case by case discussion
1, 有些庞大的工程big and complex project,需要人们把工作细分,a, 单独的人没有力量完成,会take much more time,团队之间合作更有利于完成整个任务。b, 每个人可以做自己最擅长的工作。each member can choose the part that she or he are good at. 这样就整体上eliminate the total amount of time to complete the whole task.
Evidence: assembly line, each focus on specific task, excellence and efficiency; 一个项目组中,各自分工协同完成
2. 即使是这样的工作, merely dividing work among workers can assure the final accomplishment of the task. 还是需要沟通,协调,team work并不仅仅是拆分再组合。不能让员工失去对全局的认知,只是机械的完成自己的部分,要充分调动主观能动。
3. 反面论证,如果仅仅是简单拆分的坏处:employee alienation,lose sight of larger organizational goals and their own importance in achieving them,become less committed to their work, and less productive,stifle creativity, as well as undermine self-motivation and pride,长此以往,企业和个人都不能持续健康发展
B2. 7月2次, 6月6次(8)
Although most people wish to live long lives, attempting to significantly extend the average human life span would be a mistake. If achieved, this would place an enormous burden on resources, lowering the quality of life for everyone.
Thesis: agree
1. no matter how we extend the life span, people who retire from work becomes burden to society and individual family
Evidence: aging society (Japan, China), medical resources, family support, safety
2. life quality would not necessarily increase as life extends longer
3. follow the natural rule, live a better life
B10. 6月6次,5月8次(14)
Portrayals of violence have proven commercially successful in television programs, movies, songs, and other forms of popular entertainment. Therefore, those who create popular entertainment should continue to incorporate violence into their products.
54. “Popular entertainment is overly influenced by commercial interests. Superficiality, obscenity, and violence characterize films and television today because those qualities are commercially successful.”
1诚然,目前市场上的确流行着不少以暴力为卖点的娱乐产品,也的确在一段时间内成为人们,尤其是年轻人追捧的对象。但如果作品里只是充斥着肤浅的暴力,作品只能在短期给人们带来某种感官sense organ上的刺激excitement并不具备人们所追求的娱乐的实质substance,除了短暂的经济效益和吸引眼球外,对人们的文化生活并未带来多大的value。因此这类作品就是流行也不可能是大面积长时间的流行,等到下一个类似作品出现时就不再为人们所记得。 (obscenity-adj. obscene)
2. 眼下充满了violence的popular entertainment尤其对未成年人影响很大,在他们还未真正了解社会之前,他们会以movie或TV里的世界来比拟现实世界,并在他们真正步入社会后,还不断影响他们,以虚拟暴力世界的法则和方法来结局遇到的问题,于是我们经常看到新闻报道,未成年人仅仅为了区区一点小事而用暴力来解决。年轻人是社会未来的希望和支柱,如果在他们的成长过程中不断受到如此负面的教育,那么国家将来的经济发展无人可依,从长远来看,也就不存在娱乐事业的兴兴向荣和长远发展。
3暴力的存在是一种事实,也是历史和文化发展不可缺少的一部分,但是用艺术表现的时候,侧重的是要教育人们,认清暴力的真实,摈弃暴力,而不是宣扬暴力。许多描写二战纳粹nazi的影片,虽然也有很多血腥暴力的镜头,告诉人们纳粹当年令人发指的行径abhorrent,但是艺术家通过艺术手段创造之后,留给观众的只是更加珍惜得来不易的和平hard-won。所以这些creator没有必要刻意利用violence做噱头,同样可以赢得票房和美誉。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:09
60. 7月2次, 6月5次,5月4次,4月次8(19)
“Employers should have no right to obtain information about their employees’ health or other aspects of their personal lives without the employees’ permission.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1, 员工的私人状况,如果和工作有关,所以雇主有理由关心。比如,健康问题,良好的健康状况显然是保障正常稳定生产的基础,雇主付出相同的钱,expect to get certain productivity. 而员工隐瞒健康状况,造成的低效率高成本,会使公司suffer。在雇佣时拥有对称的信息,很重要。工作安排。比如food processing或者restaurant的老板有权事先要求员工提供有效的体检报告以证明其没有传染病infectious disease that would contaminate the processed food。这时对顾客负责人,同时也是从业者的基本ethic。
2, 同时,员工的私人状况,如果会危害到其他员工,那么应该有权得这知。比如,健康状况,犯罪的历史等等重大事件。健康,会infect other employee/ 暴力 history of crimes violence/addict to drug or drink 很可能会对其他的员工造成伤害。这些都是必须要知道的。
3, 但有一些其他的私人生活,与工作效率无关,而且不是threat to others。employer 没有权力获取。比如,婚姻状况marital status, religion, race…这些都应该是员工自愿提供的with permission,而不能强制获得force。
A2. 7月3次, 6月2次,5月9次(14)
“Constant innovation and change within an organization are as likely to damage the organization as they are to improve it.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: consideration- need and frequency
1.面对着复杂多变的社会环境尤其是技术进步日新月异.只有不断地改革创新才能适应时代.以制造企业为例,它的目标客户群在不断地变化怎么能期望没有改进 和创新的产品继续受到顾客的欢迎又怎么能在这个社会上继续发展下去.
2持续的变革和变化可以让员工或者是成员时刻保持较好的创新性和适应力.在有突发时间来临的时候才不会慌手慌脚应对不了危机
3.但是我们不是为了变化而变化而是为跟上技术,需求的进步.盲目地乱搞创新一定会损害一个组织而不是对它有促进作用.
37. 7月1次, 5月3次,4月4次(8)
“Since science and technology are becoming more and more essential to modern society, schools should devote more time to teaching science and technology and less to teaching the arts and humanities.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: equally important
1. 科技十分重要,没有科学技能的人,很难快速容入工作。难以想象一个缺乏基本电脑知识的人,如何在一个corporation in which most of the daily affairs are dealt with the aid of computer里很好地完成工作!所以,学校有责任培养学生的IT技能。
2. 但是,不代表学校应该忽视艺术人文的教育。众所周知,艺术人文起到启迪思想provide people with gracious spirit. 引导人们意识到人性中的固有美德:。。。举例:科学技术是人们生存发展的工具,但同时,如果没有美德,则可能变成危险的武器。比如nuclear weapons; heroin is made by people with standard chemistry knowledge…(with the guide of virtue, science can be the best servant of human; however, on the other hand, without such guide, it can become the most dangerous weapon.右脑开发
Evidence: studying the arts and humanities can help students become better mathematicians and scientists. For example, recent studies of cognitive development show that studying music at an early age can strengthen a child’s later grasp of mathematics. And understanding philosophical concepts has helped scientists recognize their own presuppositions, and frame their central questions more accurately/helps inspire our own creativity and intellectual questioning. This is particularly important in an era dominated by technology, where we run a serious risk of becoming automatons who fit neatly into the efficient functioning of some system/human behavior based business management and leadership, business prospect
3. false dilemma. The speaker falsely put the school in a dilemma by suggesting the teaching of science and that of arts are mutually exclusive. 完全可以把两者结合起来。
12. “Education has become the main provider of individual opportunity in our society. Just as property and money once were the keys to success, education has now become the element that most ensures success in life.”
In your opinion, how accurate is the view expressed above? Explain, using reasons and examples based on your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: education has replaced money and property as the main provider of such opportunities today
1. higher level of education ,wide access, get ready before enter society, once educated, equally qualified for further job oppty
2. not only knowledge, but also soft skill – interpersonal communication, etc. , survive in the society, social skill, ready for life challenge
3. prosperity of the society, next gen
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:10
15. 7月1次, 6月2次,5月7次,4月10次(20)
“Nations should cooperate to develop regulations that limit children’s access to adult material on the Internet.”*
*The Internet is a worldwide computer network.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1, full of Superficiality, obscenity, and violence characterize films and television today because those qualities are commercially successful, children doesn’t have discretion, may imitate or naturally take this as norm儿童的好奇心以及缺乏正确的认识,are vulnerable to the bad influence of such adults materials,从而distract their concentration from study to those distorted notions. 人们有责任和义务帮助孩子,protect them from being hurt and influenced by such materials.
2. international effort on regulations necessary, 国家范围内的regulations lose their previous effectiveness because of the development of internet. Just as the companies which contaminate the natural environment move to other countries after being punished, so the company offering pornographic materials on line can move to other parts of the world to avoid punishment. 所以,国家联合起来,非常有必要。
可以通过象环保那样的联合的和约
3. internet普及问题严重的国家可以给其他国家经验
24. 7月1次, 6月5次,5月7次,4月7次(20)
“A powerful business leader has far more opportunity to influence the course of a community or a nation than does any government official.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: Historical examples of both influential public officials and influential business leaders abound. However, the power of the modern-era business leader is quite different from that of the government official. On balance, the CEO seems to be better positioned to influence the course of community and of nations.
View1领导人的作用有时不象企业家一样apparent. 因为国家的发展,人们的生活,与企业closely related. 比如GATES,领导了信息产业革命;Rockefeller,控制国家的石油命脉took control of American oil supply。企业家通过影响企业的行为,从而直观上影响人course of a community,Steve Paul Jobs带领apple创造了一种新的生活方式
View2: on the contrary, Unlike business leader, government power is likely to subject to many more restraints. 比如任何法案的通过和执行,都不是一个部门的决定,需要通过层层研究讨论,听证,投票才能被审批。所以人们很容易觉得商业人物反而更加有影响力。
View3 While take more thorough consideration, the government official is likely to have more direct and broad influence on a community and a nation. 再有影响力的business leader也必须遵守政府所指定的法律法规,必须以社会利益为大前提。而这一切都是在政府官员的影响下产生的。同时,当一个国家处于紧急状态的时候,只有政府才有能力来应付。比如遇到金融危机,只有政府能够制定应对策略,才能使国家安全度过。比如在楼市不理性的时候,只有政府的调控,才能防止泡沫的产生。
26. 7月6次, 6月1次,5月9次,4月4次(20)
“Location has traditionally been one of the most important determinants of a business’s success. The importance of location is not likely to change, no matter how advanced the development of computer communications and others kinds of technology becomes.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1. 事实上现在的趋势是:由于网络电话电子通讯交通越来越便利,地点对与一个企业来说正在变得越来越不重要。无形的商品可以通过网络、电话进行购买,和使用的地点不是很重要了。例如:保险、电子期刊等。有形商品由于售货方式的改变,地址的重要性也在淡化。很多厂家通过在互联网上展示自己产品的照片和电话直销的形式销售商品。其中比较突出的例子就是AMWAY、DELL
2. 当然有很多的需要体验和身体力行的产品供应商的地址还是很重要的,象是餐饮业健身房等. 对于很多retail business, 需要面对面地persuade the consumers to buy,比如化妆品cosmetics. 再比如,try on the clothes and compare the different types and textures…地点仍然是十分重要的;餐饮要开在热闹的商区,有能力消费
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:10
32. “You can tell the ideas of a nation by its advertisements.”
Explain what you think this quotation means and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with it. Develop your position with reasons and/or specific examples drawn from history, current events, or your own experience, observations, or reading.
Idea: an image in your mind of what something is like or should be like
Thesis: In order to determine whether advertisements reflect a nation’s ideas, it is necessary to determine whether advertisements present real ideas at all, and, if so, whose ideas they actually reflect. On both counts, it appears that advertisements fail to accurately mirror a nation’s ideas.
View1 的确有反应advertisements inform us as to a nation’s values, attitudes, and priorities—what activities are worthwhile, what the future holds, and what is fashionable and attractive. For instance, a proliferation of ads for sport-utility vehicles reflects a societal concern more for safety and machismo than for energy conservation and frugality, while a plethora of ads for inexpensive on-line brokerage services reflects an optimistic and perhaps irrationally exuberant economic outlook. However, a mere picture of a social more, outlook, or fashion is not an “idea”—it does not answer questions such as “why” and “how”? 广告确实可以反映一个国家的偏好preference,比如,在东亚eastern Asia的很多国家,电视上proliferation of cosmetic which can impede suntan and make skin appear white,表现了这些国家对白色皮肤的偏好。而同时,另一些western国家中,很多运动用品的广告,体现了对户外运动的喜好。但是这些,并不是一个国家的思想,只是一些时尚流行。。。
View2 可以塑造,不一定全面准确。广告只能反映superficial的现象,而不是一个国家真正的思想,文化等深层次的东西。因为广告,毕竟只是商家为了推销产品而使用的手段,它的主要只能是persuade the consumers to buy。而不能承担展示精神的作用。广告有其商业用途。
View3有一些公益广告是可以反映社会某个部分的成员的idea的。例如:环保组织.然而这些广告只在所有的广告中占据了可以忽略的一个部分,而且它也不能代表一个国家的idea.。甚至是中国国家打造的在CNN播放的广告,旨在让美国和全世界人民了解中国并不仅仅是抢夺工作机会的制造工厂,更是全球经济共同发展中和美国的战略合作伙伴,也是出于political;或者由旅游局打造的广告,也仅仅是出于商业目的吸引更多的游客
45. 7月4次, 6月3次,5月14次,4月17次(38)
“The most effective way for a businessperson to maximize profits over a long period of time is to follow the highest standards of ethics.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
111. “The most effective business leaders are those who maintain the highest ethical standards.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: more of a normative statement than an empirical observation, the two objectives at times coincide but at other times conflict.
View1 支持者会认为, 高道德会赢得reputation and trust; 第一, 高道德生产高质量的产品以及service,顾客稳定stable share of the market; 第二, 高道德会让员工满意度提高(公平,平等). 从而attract those applicants with high ability and keep the employees loyal to the company---最终导致高的productivity. Internal: integrity to company/External: responsible to client… in some cases a commitment to high ethical standards might benefit a company financially
View2 the definition of highest standards of ethics varies from person to person, time to time and even culture to culture. Therefore, it is impractical to find and then stick to the highest standards of ethics. Eg. In japan, laying off life contract employees who are veterans and who have served the company for over decades are considered unethical in terms of corporate social responsibilities. 所以造就了日益庞大臃肿的企业机构,最终导致企业无力竞争。Eg。JPN airline国企作风,机构日益庞大,效率日益降低,最终重组。作为企业公民来看,企业担负起了社会责任,也是中social ethics。当然,凡是都有两面性,公司合并,势必有人下岗,工厂扩建,势必对环境带来负担,但并不能因此因噎废食,毕竟企业出于rational economic intrestes。
View3 但有时一味追求highest standards of ethics并非是企业实现最大利润的最有效方式,相反。。。反面的例子可以是说如果从最高的道德规范来看有些污染环境的行业根本就不应该存在,但是从企业的长期发展来看以及从社会的福利最大化来看,只要污染控制在一定范围就好。如化工厂只要把排污控制在国家规定的范围就好。但是这些的存在,对社会是利大于弊。
Conclusion: the regulations and laws of authorities are more feasible and suitable standards to follow.对于上述的发生,只要控制在一定法律范围内就好。如化工厂只要把排污控制在国家规定的范围就好,合并导致的下岗做适当的再就业指导和培训
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:17
75. “There are essentially two forces that motivate people: self-interest and fear.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1. 不能否认的是,人们做很多行为都出自这两种天性。a, 人们努力工作,为了赚足够的钱养活自己,support the family,人们接受education and training to make sure that he or she can grasp the up to date knowledge and skills for the purpose to avoid being supplanted by others. 因为恐惧。b, 人们遵守社会规范,有时也是为了赢得reputation。
2. 但是,如果说人的一切行为都root in these only two factors, 这就过于one-sided的说法。忽略了other aspects of the natural humanity。比如人性中的很多美德,都表现了人们克服了selfishness and fear取得的成就。a, 科学家为了address the problem of starvation, 花一生的精力去研究the better rice breed. b, anonymous charitarian donate huge amount of money to the school and hospital…people can hardly be persuaded to believe that the anonymous charitarian doing so are only motivated by the intention of gaining reputation.
Evidence: study one person to offer and one to accept, if self-interested, min offer will be accepted, but only less than 40% of offer is less than 10% share and only 20% accept offer less than 10%.
B4. Each generation's culture achievements--such as those in music, art ,or literature--represent improvements on the cultural achievements of previous generations.
View1 有的是improvements on the cultural achievements of previous generations
View 2 有的是同源
View3 还有的是创新
65. 7月1次, 5月6次,4月4次(11)
“The rise of multinational corporations is leading to global homogeneity*. Because people everywhere are beginning to want the same products and services, regional differences are rapidly disappearing.”
* homogeneity: sameness, similarity
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1, 首先,前提是错误的。因为各地差异不同,所以全球化的大公司,想在所有地方都提供一样的产品服务是不现实的。empirical evidence: 很多成功的大企业,往往是那些充分认识到不同,从而采用不同的策略的。不能保持完全一致的策略,let alone 更不用说完全一样的产品和服务。比如:KFC等fast food,在中国都针对口味偏好开发了很多新产品。
2, Moreover, 地区差异不会消失,有更深层次的原因on much deeper level。第一,文化的差异,信仰的不同,很难靠产品和服务改变。比如,即使使用最先进的日本Panasonic产的电视,美国人用来传播transmit democratic principles, while中国人可能用来publicize the thoughts of Mao, or Confucius… 第二,习俗的差异,custom。比如,尽管很多年轻人在中国开始celebrate the Valentine’s Day, 但是在所有中国人心中,最重要的节日仍然是Spring Festival。这是什么样的产品都不能改变的。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:43
112. 7月1次, 6月4次,5月6次,4月4次(15)
“Because of recent advancements in business and technology, the overall quality of life in most societies has never been better than at the present time.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
1. progress in technology and business确实给人们的生活带来了considerable improvement. a, in the material life,提供了unprecedented diversity of service and products。supermarket:hundreds and thousands of products for people to choose;——三月份就可以吃到新鲜的草莓fresh strawberry b, 方便。高效率in the convenience of our own homes :得到信息在网上,订餐order a dinner via internet; c, 人们的健康状况更好了,很多曾经可以威胁人生命的病现在只要简单的医疗手段就可以解决。
2. 但是,也不是说全都是好处,同时也有消极的影响。比如a, 人们spend more time on television and internet, 忽略了overlook the necessary communication in the family。造成了alienation between the family members. b, 再比如,fast communication on-line 剥夺了人们深入思考的可能。deprive people of deep and comprehensive thinking.
3. 同时,使人们更加忙碌,疲劳。a, 人们的效率提高了,却被要求做更多的事了,实际上,人们更加忙碌了。比如the invention of laptops provide the possibility for people to continue their work after they leave the company. even on holiday. b, 新技术发展很快,demand changes every day. 这样accelerate the job obsolescence。造成人们suffer more pressure and anxiety.
Conclusion: mixed blessing
22. “Clearly, government has a responsibility to support the arts. However, if that support is going to produce anything of value, government must place no restrictions on the art that is produced.”
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above? Develop your position by giving specific reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Thesis: 鉴于art的特性,社会应该support,而不应该设置restriction
View1政府的确有责任support art,这种support除了给art合适的发展空间和平台以外,也包括适当的监管,以确保社会大多数的利益。
View2 政府的更多的应该侧重于保护art。比如考古物件保护,遏制黑市交易,artist的生活,名誉,专利
23. “Schools should be responsible only for teaching academic skills and not for teaching ethical and social values.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
11. “When someone achieves greatness in any field — such as the arts, science, politics, or business — that person’s achievements are more important than any of his or her personal faults.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
must be weighed on a case-by-case basis, depending on two factors: (1) the extent to which the failing is part of the achievement process itself, and (2) the societal impact of the achiever’s failing apart from his or her own success.
view1 如果是原则性的错误,比如文凭造假,家庭出轨,酒驾,因为是成功人士的社会影响,所以就会带来负面效果
view2 如果非原则性错误,比如
7月4次, 6月4次,5月9次,4月3次(20)
V1,the effectiveness depends more on the quality of other students than the quality of the teacher.
V2.how effectiveness one learns in the classroom depends on the quality of the other students than the quality of the teacher.
Thesis: both are important factors contributing to study effectiveness, quality of other students doesn’t outweigh that of the teacher
View1: teacher is the facilitator, impart knowledge, decide teaching strategy, quality means teacher has the capability to teach according to the students aptitude, customized teaching method, it also means extend beyond textbook and apply theory to real life, teacher also influence students’ value proposition, how they evaluate social/historic events, how they fuse into society once graduated from school
View2: other students make up the learning environment in which student fellows interlock with each other, if study with effective group of other students, cultivate good learning habits, more creative, learn team work
View3: these are two equally important, many universities are ranked on these two – teacher’s professionalism and fellows qualification
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:43
7月2次,6月2次,5月9次,4月6次(19)
surveillance cameras should be used on the city streets to assist officials identifying and arresting people who break the law.内容大抵如此,可能少了部
1. very effective and convenient, narrow scope, speed up process
2. save resource, free from many inhibitors, cost effective than manual resources
3. the presence of it increase safety
7月1次,6月1次,5月8次,4月7次(18)
虽然有电视收音机网络各种媒介看新闻,但是报纸依然是最重要的新闻形式
1、在很多通讯发达,技术前进较快的国家和地区,报纸现在恐怕不是最重要的source of news了。Internet、mobile phone作为新闻的来源很可能已经超过了newspaper,它们方便、更新及时,而报纸顶多日刊,can’t provide latest news, low cost, easy to circulate, interlock with readers, many internet news web provides search function and reader can read cross a dozen of news of her preference
2. 但是纸质报纸仍旧是很多人获取新闻的最重要形式,尤其是生活在通讯电子科技不发达的国家,或者是不善于操作新技术的老年人中。对于他们来说,either经济不发达,还没有条件可以看电视或者上网,更别说通过手机等浏览新闻;or 由于不精通新技术,不会使用电脑或上网,他们对于报纸的依赖程度相当高。可举survey例子
3、我相信,将来的趋势是,报纸会逐步被其他方式所取代。一方面报纸浪费资源,不环保,有违于环保,另外我们已经越来越被各种通讯技术所包围,报纸作为一种传统的,单方面,主观的新闻报道形式,会渐渐被更加便捷,快速,更富有互动的新媒体形式取代。
7月1次, 6月3次,5月7次,4月5次(16)
it is duty for an employee to put needs of a company first
1. 两方面,工作的时候应该把公司需要放在第一位,
2. 工作之外的时间就不一定了
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:43
5月7次,4月1次
"Physical activity 和 academic 对学生同样地重要"
Physical activity and sports are as important as education of academics
1很长一段时间以来,physical activity的重要性都被忽视,认为那时不重要的课程,是academic的补充,可有可无。但事实上physical activity对学生来说同样的重要。最显而易见的一点就是其强身健体的功效。身体是革命的本钱,学术再专再优秀的学生,如果没有健康的体魄,也无法持续良好的状态,并未社会做贡献,这将是家庭和社会的损失,也是个人的遗憾。
2. physical activity可以让我们更加了解自己的身体,发展出更适合自己的锻炼方式,学会避免运动伤害,并且在将来漫长的人生中受益。
3. physical activity还可以培养很多精神,比如说teamwork spirit,坚持,不放弃。我们往往说运动员是意志最坚强的。他们并非天生就这样,也是通过后期的努力训练,不断得在失败中成长和磨练,不断的打败对手,战胜自我。
7月2次, 6月4次,5月7次,4月2次(15)
大概就是people should be paid according to the beneficial the profession to society
Profession:掌握一定学术技能而从事的职业,eg。老师,工程师,医生
1. 理论上,在决定工资在的时候,对社会更有用的profession,理应获得更高的收入,但是没有一个严格的区分标准来判别哪种profession对社会更重要更有意义,我们不能仅凭该行业是否和我们的日常生活息息相关,就判定该行业是否对社会贡献更大。比如核电研究,虽然远离人们的日常生活,但是其意义远远超过国界,更是长久的。
2. 比专业更重要的是工作能力,比如处理问题的能力、创新能力、和上下级沟通的能力等等。举例:lou gerstner 关键在于该专业的人如果结合自己的专业为社会创造价值。
3. 还有从业者的ethic也很重要
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国家为了保护国家安全应该有权利检查公民图书馆和网页浏览记录
1. 是否有必要?如果国家以安全的理由获得查看公民图书馆和网页浏览记录的权利,那么不久国家也会以同样的理由进一步要求获得查看公民其他隐私的权利,比如邮件,电话,甚至是日记。而国家又如何来保证这些私人的信息不被二度利用。
2. 是否真的有用?即使国家查到了所有的记录,那么又以何种方式来评判这些信息的有效性,并且对国家安全提供有用价值。也许需要动用无数的人力和技术资源,分析。事实上自从911以来,美国的安全机构已经从几百个上升到几千个,搜集的公民信息也拓展到行车记录,出差记录等等,但是数以亿万计的信息,并没有真正在第一时间帮助安全机构找出隐患所在,而往往是事发之后才意识到其实宝贵的信息已经被流失。
3. 即使这些信息真的有用,但是又以何种标准来判定哪些记录表明有潜在安全隐患。我们不会因为好奇的未成年人经常浏览异教信息的网页或者阅读美国战争对象的国家的书籍,而判定其有罪,也不可能把所有这些潜在的危险分子监控起来。
在健全的法律出台以前,仅仅以国家安全的理由要求检查公民图书馆和网页浏览记录是不合适的。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:44
7月3次,6月3次,5月5次,4月6次(17)
the employers should prohibit the employees from the unhealthy behaviors , both in workplace and in theie leisure time.
1. 首先对于unhealthy behavior没有一个确切的标准。有些是社会公认的,比如addiction to drug/smoking。但是有些vary from person to person,比如有些人认为吃instant food不healthy。而人们之所以addict to这些所谓的unhealthy behavior也出于种种原因,有的可能是缺乏知识,有的可能是为了某种短期的目睹,比如减肥或者是缓解压力。既然没有一个统一的标准,企业也没有能力更没有必要控制员工摈除一切不良习惯。
2. 如果unhealthy behavior和生产工作息息相关,那么employer可以借由指定相关的规定来规范员工,而且必须在雇佣的时候就告知员工。比如餐饮企业,要求厨师在上班期间不许抽烟喝酒,这不仅仅是出于对员工个人健康的考虑,更是出于对其安全以及对顾客的负责。
3. 如果和工作无关,只是涉及到员工个人利益的时候,employer出于关心,可以给予适当的引导,但无需强制性。比如企业可以鼓励员工多多参加运动,加强身体素质,甚至可以提供一些优惠的健身项目,但是不能强制员工参加。
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V1.since fossile fuel vital and limited, international agreement 要 reduce fuel ...... 问你同意还是不同意
v2.Fossil fuel resources: For the Fossil fuel resources is XXX and limited, 有必要制定一个针对所有国家的 international agreement,来限制各个国家对fossil fuel的依赖。(最后小半句不太确定,请其它CDer补充)
V3 fossil fuel resources are vital and limited, international agreements should be adopted that would require all the nations reduce the use of fossil fuel
Thesis: agree
1、首先,individual country自私几乎是天性。self consideration优先。在没有广泛的行动时,每一个国家都不愿意在自己作出牺牲的同时,其他国家没有行动。这样不公平,也不可能达到。这时,international agreement的作用很重要。安排各国家工作,协调各国家活动。有一个行动的指导作用。类似Kyoto protocol, Under the Protocol, 37 countries commit themselves to a reduction of four greenhouse gases and two groups of gases produced by them, and all member countries give general commitments.现在这个protocol已经成为各国减排的一个指导。
2、而且,能源就像环境问题一样,没有国界,是全人类共同的问题。因为在全球化经济发展下,资源几乎是全球运转的。比如,美国会向中国进口木材等原料。所以很多能源的消耗往往都在境外,所以需要通过一个international agreement合作。在其中根据能源的储备,消耗情况计划长远全局的开发和利用计划。
by the same token, the problem of energy conservation transcends the national borders in that either all nations must cooperate, or all will suffer.
3、当然,在合理利用能源的同时也可以依靠international agreement,协调目前各国的技术来开发能源,并且提高能源的利用率。比如在很多非洲小国家有丰富的储备,但是需要外国的技术和资金来帮助开发。又比如先进的太阳能solar energy技术可以被逐步推广到全世界,以减少对于fossil fuel的消耗(oil, gas, coal)
7月2次, 6月3次,5月4次,4月3次(12)
Celebrities are uniquely qualified to efficiently address social problems, because of their high-profile status and access to resources.
Thesis: agree
1. 名人通常有很高的感召力和社会效应,比如当名人作为环保的大使号召大家绿色出行,名人可以利用其出席不同社会活动的机会向大家宣传,并且和政府合作,推出免费出租自行车的五福,同时鼓励大家都来follow,尽量减少汽车的使用。这种方式要比政府纯粹用宣教的方式要有效多了。
2. 同时,名人的言行举止受到大众的关注,其所宣扬的品德也成为大众的model。比如名人带头领养生病的孤儿,并且带头向孤儿院捐款,就会起到带头作用,从一定程度上感召大家,帮助社会解决孤儿的问题。
3. 但是名人很大程度上其实只是起到了一个形象作用,真正可以解决很多社会问题的还是在政府机关和专业机关的带领下民众一起解决,我们不应该过多寄希望于仅仅名人效应。
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:44
6月3次,5月3次,4月2次(8)
the most experienced candidate is usually the best candidate for a leadership position
1. experience 固然很重要
2. 但是光有experience不能说明就是best candidate,更重要的是是否有leadership的素质
3. experience is a plus
12. . 7月6次,
我们可以不遵守我们认为unjust的法律
我勒个去~~这题。。。没找到。。。请帮忙考古~~
People have duties to disobey the laws they consider unjust.
3. arguement提纲
28. The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
“Commuter use of the new subway train is exceeding the transit company’s projections. However, commuter use of the shuttle buses that transport people to the subway stations is below the projected volume. If the transit company expects commuters to ride the shuttle buses to the subway rather than drive there, it must either reduce the shuttle bus fares or increase the price of parking at the subway stations.”
1. reduce shuttle bus fares or increase price of parking will not necessarily stimulate shuttle bus ridership, 但事实原因可能还有很多.例如:巴士的环境不好速度比较慢中间间隔时间太长车站位置不好等等.
2. even can, these two actions are not mutually exclusive, combination would bring better results
52. 7月2次,6月6次,5月7次,4月7次(22)
The following editorial appeared in the Elm City paper.
“The construction last year of a shopping mall in downtown Oak City was a mistake. Since the mall has opened, a number of local businesses have closed, and the downtown area suffers from an acute parking shortage, and arrests for crime and vagrancy have increased in the nearby Oak City Park. Elm City should pay attention to the example of the Oak City mall and deny the application to build a shopping mall in Elm City.”
1. 时序因果:shopping mall导致local business closure等一系列后果
2. 作者只给出了不好的结果而没有给出好的影响很可能权衡利弊之后被选择的是要开这个商场,未必是mistake
3. 即使是,elm city可能情况不同,不能类推
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:45
44. 7月3次,6月4次,5月3次,4月7次(17)
The following is part of a business plan created by the management of the Megamart grocery store.
“Our total sales have increased this year by 20 percent since we added a pharmacy section to our grocery store. Clearly, the customer’s main concern is the convenience afforded by one-stop shopping. The surest way to increase our profits over the next couple of years, therefore, is to add a clothing department along with an automotive supplies and repair shop. We should also plan to continue adding new departments and services, such as a restaurant and a garden shop, in subsequent years. Being the only store in the area that offers such a range of services will give us a competitive advantage over other local stores.”
1. 增长20%未必是因为added a pharmacy section
2. 过去因为added a pharmacy section to our grocery store而导致增加20%的sales,在将来未必能实现相同效益
3. 即使有这个trend,未必clothing department,restaurant and a garden shop一样可以增长效益,可能药房附近独此一家
4. 即使可以增长效益,但是未必profit就一定增长
42. The following appeared in the opinion section of a national newsmagazine.
“To reverse the deterioration of the postal service, the government should raise the price of postage stamps. This solution will no doubt prove effective, since the price increase will generate larger revenues and will also reduce the volume of mail, thereby eliminating the strain on the existing system and contributing to improved morale.”
1. deterioration of the postal service未必仅仅是因为price,所以可能有别的原因导致,比如竞争,行业本身的流程管理问题
2. 如果raise the price,不一定能generate larger revenue。如果volume因此大幅下降,可能减少revenue,那么即使eliminate the strain,却无法improve morale;如果volume持平,虽然增加revenue,但是没有eliminate the strain
3. morale和raise the price也未必有关系,可能是fixed
38. 7月1次, 6月1次,5月2次,4月6次(10)
The following appeared in the editorial section of a campus newspaper.
“Because occupancy rates for campus housing fell during the last academic year, so did housing revenues. To solve the problem, campus housing officials should reduce the number of available housing units, thereby increasing the occupancy rates. Also, to keep students from choosing to live off-campus, housing officials should lower the rents, thereby increasing demand.”
1. 不能因为去年低,就减少available room,将来趋势可能不同
2. rent未必是原因,可能有别的原因,比如设施,服务
3. 减少提供的房子,降低房租,很可能导致收入下降
105. 7月7次,6月2次,5月2次,4月8次(19)
The following appeared in an editorial from a newspaper serving the town of Saluda.
“The Saluda Consolidated High School offers over 200 different courses from which its students can choose. A much smaller private school down the street offers a basic curriculum of only 80 different courses, but it consistently sends a higher proportion of its graduating seniors on to college than Consolidated does. By eliminating at least half of the courses offered there and focusing on a basic curriculum, we could improve student performance at Consolidated and also save many tax dollars.”
1. 课程多少和升学率高低并无直接关系,可能有别的原因导致,比如学生本身素质
2. higher proportion to college is not an overall measurement of student performance, However, given a broader conception of student excellence that takes into account student’s ability to learn and apply their knowledge to new situations, its is not obvious that college admission is reliable indicator of performance
3. 减少课程未必能save tax,改前和改后都一样
4. 即使课程有关联,在private school可行的未必在saluda可以,可能学生接受程度,家长态度,师资力量
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:45
106. 7月2次,6月5次,5月8次(15)
The following appeared as part of a business plan by the Capital Idea Investment firm.
“Currently more and more books are becoming available in electronic form — either free of charge on the Internet or for a very low price per book on CD-ROM.* People who would not pay bookstore prices will now have access to whatever book they want from their home or work computers. Consequently, literary classics are likely to be read more widely than ever before: 72 percent of those responding to a recent online survey said they would read books in electronic form, and 81 percent said they believed that reading classic works was important. Given this newly developing market, we should invest in E-Classics, a new company that sells electronic versions of literary classics.”
*A CD-ROM is a small portable disc capable of storing relatively large amounts of data that can be read by a computer.
1. 电子书普及未必导致literary classics更广泛的被阅读,可能只是阅读business书籍or entertaining book
2. 调查未给出对象的数量,无法从72%和81%知道样本是否随即,是否够大能代表整体,是否权威;即使调查可靠,72%和81%有多大的交集未知
3. 未必投资开电子书店赚钱,一方面是竞争,一方面是读literary classics的市场
16. The following appeared as part of an article in the education section of a Waymarsh City newspaper.
“Throughout the last two decades, those who earned graduate degrees found it very difficult to get jobs teaching their academic specialties at the college level. Those with graduate degrees from Waymarsh University had an especially hard time finding such jobs. But better times are coming in the next decade for all academic job seekers, including those from Waymarsh. Demographic trends indicate that an increasing number of people will be reaching college age over the next ten years; consequently, we can expect that the job market will improve dramatically for people seeking college-level teaching positions in their fields.”
1. an increasing number of people will be reaching college age over the next ten years并不代表enroll college的人一定增加
2. 即使上大学的人有所增加,也未必会导致大学教师的需求增加
3. 即使有所增加,所有fields的都一样容易找到大学教师的工作,可能有的field比较热门,而有的不变
4. 即使所有fields的大学教师需求都有所增加,未必Waymarsh University毕业的就有好就业前景
10. 7月4次,6月6次,5月11次,4月4次(25)
The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
“This past winter, 200 students from Waymarsh State College traveled to the state capitol building to protest against proposed cuts in funding for various state college programs. The other 12,000 Waymarsh students evidently weren’t so concerned about their education: they either stayed on campus or left for winter break. Since the group who did not protest is far more numerous, it is more representative of the state’s college students than are the protesters. Therefore the state legislature need not heed the appeals of the protesting students.”
1. 样本200未必不具代表性,如果是随机抽取,完全可以代表
2. 样本12000未必具代表性
3. 即使的确12000占大多数,不去protest不代表不关心,: they either stayed on campus or left for winter break
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:45
108. 7月4次,6月2次,5月10次,4月4次(20)
The following appeared as part of a business plan created by the management of the Take Heart Fitness Center.
“After opening the new swimming pool early last summer, Take Heart saw a 12 percent increase in the use of the center by members. Therefore, in order to increase the number of our members and thus our revenues, which depend on membership fees, we should continue to add new recreational facilities in subsequent years: for example, a multipurpose game room, a tennis court, and a miniature golf course. Being the only center in the area offering this range of activities would give us a competitive advantage in the health and recreation market.”
1. increase use of the center by members不代表member人数增加,可能是相同的会员,来的次数增加,所以并没有增加membership fee
2. 时序性因果:12%增长未必是因为opening the new swimming pool early last summer,可能小区入住人数增加
3. 即使是因为new swimming pool,也不能说增加别的娱乐设施一定能成功,可能增加cost,反而降低,或者这些设施并非为大家所接受
9. 7月2次,6月2次,5月6次,4月7次(17)
The following appeared in the opinion column of a financial magazine.
“On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Since the number of middle-aged people will increase dramatically within the next decade, department stores can expect retail sales to increase significantly during that period. Furthermore, to take advantage of the trend, these stores should begin to replace some of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intended to attract the middle-aged consumer.”
1. 调查并未给出绝对值,39%不一定代表多,25%不一定代表少
2. middle-aged people will increase和retail sales to increase没有必然因果关系,可能将来的趋势恰恰相反
3. replace products intended to attract the younger consumer也未必能提升sales,可能因为替换而减少的sales比增长的更多
14. 6月1次,5月8次(9)
The following appeared as part of a newspaper editorial.
“Two years ago Nova High School began to use interactive computer instruction in three academic subjects. The school dropout rate declined immediately, and last year’s graduates have reported some impressive achievements in college. In future budgets the school board should use a greater portion of the available funds to buy more computers, and all schools in the district should adopt interactive computer instruction throughout the curriculum.”
1. two years ago不能说明未来趋势
2. Nova High School不能类推到all schools
3. three academic subjects不能类推到throughout the curriculum.
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:46
110. 7月4次,6月1次,5月3次,4月3次(11)
The following appeared as part of a memorandum from the loan department of the Frostbite National Bank.
“We should not approve the business loan application of the local group that wants to open a franchise outlet for the Kool Kone chain of ice cream parlors. Frostbite is known for its cold winters, and cold weather can mean slow ice cream sales. For example, even though Frostbite is a town of 10,000 people, it has only one ice cream spot — the Frigid Cow. Despite the lack of competition, the Frigid Cow’s net revenues fell by 10 percent last winter.”
1. cold winter未必一定slow ice cream sales,虽然冷,但是可能时间短
2. revenue fell by 10%未必是因为cold winter,可能有别的因素导致,比如口味不符合当地人喜好,管理不善
3. 即使以上皆对,未必open a franchise outlet for the Kool Kone chain of ice cream parlors的sales会差,可能他们有独特的配方和科学的管理
125. 6月4次,5月5次,4月4次(13)
The following appeared as part of the business plan of the Capital Idea investment firm.
“Across town in the Park Hill district, the Thespian Theater, Pizzazz Pizza, and the Niblick Golf Club have all had business increases within the past two years. Capital Idea should therefore invest in the Roxy Playhouse, the Slice-o’-Pizza, and the Divot Golf Club, three new businesses in the Irongate district. As a condition, we should require them to participate in a special program: Any customer who patronizes two of the businesses will receive a substantial discount at the third. By motivating customers to patronize all three, we will thus contribute to the profitability of each and maximize our return.”
1. past two years不代表未来趋势
2. 即使有趋势,未必在Irongate能像在Park Hill district一样成功
3. 即使成功,discount未必代表有profit
12. The following appeared as part of a promotional campaign to sell advertising space in the Daily Gazette to grocery stores in the Marston area.
“Advertising the reduced price of selected grocery items in the Daily Gazette will help you increase your sales. Consider the results of a study conducted last month. Thirty sale items from a store in downtown Marston were advertised in the Gazette for four days. Each time one or more of the 30 items was purchased, clerks asked whether the shopper had read the ad. Two-thirds of the 200 shoppers asked answered in the affirmative. Furthermore, more than half the customers who answered in the affirmative spent over $100 at the store.”
1. 200shoppers可能不是随机的,或者数量不足以代表整体调查对象,无法证明广告一定有效
2. 同时发生“回答看过广告未必是销售增长的原因,可能原来就要买,或者正好是节假日才导致销售增长
3. last month的调查未必代表将来的趋势,可能last month正好是节假日
4. spent over $100 at the store.未必表示销售增长,没有提供广告前的数据加以比较
6. 7月3次,6月4次,5月13次,4月7次 (27)
The following appeared as part of an article in a magazine devoted to regional life.
“Corporations should look to the city of Helios when seeking new business opportunities or a new location. Even in the recent recession, Helios’s unemployment rate was lower than the regional average. It is the industrial center of the region, and historically it has provided more than its share of the region’s manufacturing jobs. In addition, Helios is attempting to expand its economic base by attracting companies that focus on research and development of innovative technologies.”
1. low unemployment rate means labor resource has better placement, demand for resource for star-up within short period time might be more difficult,增加成本
2. being the industrial center of the region, and historically it has provided more than its share of the region’s manufacturing jobs不代表将来趋势,比方说已经饱和的资源、过分的竞争、以及可能出现的错误政策,都可能导致H地区的经济不再发达
3. attracting companies that focus on research and development of innovative technologies和seeking new business opportunities or a new location没有必然的因果关系,甚至代表改地区没有充足的科研人力资源
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:46
39. 7月1次, 6月2次,5月5次,4月2次(10)
The following appeared in an Avia Airlines departmental memorandum.
“On average, 9 out of every 1,000 passengers who traveled on Avia Airlines last year filed a complaint about our baggage-handling procedures. This means that although some 1 percent of our passengers were unhappy with those procedures, the overwhelming majority were quite satisfied with them; thus it would appear that a review of the procedures is not important to our goal of maintaining or increasing the number of Avia’s passengers.”
1. 1%不代表quite satified,如果乘客的基数很大,那么不满意的乘客人数也很多,和同行业竞争者比呐?和同行业竞争者比,可能1%算高的
2. 不满意的乘客可能没有file complaint,但是不代表他们就满意了
3. survey是last year的,不代表将来乘客依然满意,可能行业竞争者的服务不断提高
97. 7月2次,6月1次,5月1次(4)
The following appeared as part of an article in a computer magazine.
“A year ago Apex Manufacturing bought its managers computers for their homes and paid for telephone connections so that the managers could access Apex computers and data files from home after normal business hours. Since last year, productivity at Apex has increased by 15 percent. Other companies can learn from the success at Apex: given home computers and access to company resources, employees will work additional hours at home and thereby increase company profits.”
1. 时序因果:programme和productivity未必是因果关系,可能是别的因素导致,比如流程优化
2. Apex成功的,在别的公司未必成功,可能行业不同;manager错误类推all employees
3. 执行该programme,work additional hours未必能increase profit,可能增加投入,降低profit
97. The following was excerpted from an article in a farming trade publication.
“Farmers who switched from synthetic to organic farming last year have seen their crop yields decline. Many of these farmers feel that it would be too expensive to resume synthetic farming at this point, given the money that they invested in organic farming supplies and equipment. But their investments will be relatively minor compared to the losses from continued lower crop yields. Organic farmers should switch to synthetic farming rather than persist in an unwise course. And the choice to farm organically is financially unwise, given that it was motivated by environmental rather than economic concerns.”
1. yields decline未必是switched from synthetic to organic farming造成的,可能是刚转了技术不熟练,天气原因,或者使用杀虫剂不当等因素造成
2. switch并非不financially wise,可能优良的土壤,可以加快收成,较少杀虫剂使用量,使用更长时间,从而获得长期经济效益
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:46
1. 7月3次,6月1次,5月4次,4月6次(14)
The following appeared as part of an annual report sent to stockholders by Olympic Foods, a processor of frozen foods.
“Over time, the costs of processing go down because as organizations learn how to do things better, they become more efficient. In color film processing, for example, the cost of a 3-by-5-inch print fell from 50 cents for five-day service in 1970 to 20 cents for one-day service in 1984. The same principle applies to the processing of food. And since Olympic Foods will soon celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday, we can expect that our long experience will enable us to minimize costs and thus maximize profits.”
1. cost down未必代表become more efficient,可能是supply更多,采购成本降低因素导致
2. film industry和food industry不同,后者要面临food保质,运输等问题
3. 仅仅因为Olympic Foods有25年历史,未必就能minimize costs,可能流程或技术没有改进
A3. The following appeared in a memorandum from the development director of the Largo Piano Company.
“The Largo Piano Company has long been known for producing carefully handcrafted, expensive pianos used by leading concert pianists. During the past few years, however, our revenues have declined; meanwhile, the Allegro Musical Instrument Company introduced a line of inexpensive digital pianos and then saw its revenues increase. In order to increase Largo’s sales and in fact outsell Allegro, we should introduce a line of digital pianos in a variety of price ranges. Our digital pianos would be likely to find instant acceptance with customers, since they would be associated with the prestigious Largo name.”
1. Allegro Musical Instrument Company的revenues increase未必是因为introduced a line of inexpensive digital pianos,可能是因为宣传
2. 即使是,也不代表The Largo Piano Company同样会成功,可能消费者觉得Allegro Musical Instrument的低价品质量够好了,不想转品牌
31. The following appeared as part of the business plan of an investment and financial consulting firm.
“Studies suggest that an average coffee drinker’s consumption of coffee increases with age, from age 10 through age 60. Even after age 60, coffee consumption remains high. The average cola drinker’s consumption of cola, however, declines with increasing age. Both of these trends have remained stable for the past 40 years. Given that the number of older adults will significantly increase as the population ages over the next 20 years, it follows that the demand for coffee will increase and the demand for cola will decrease during this period. We should, therefore, consider transferring our investments from Cola Loca to Early Bird Coffee.”
1. past 40 years的trend未必代表将来趋势,可能会发生改变
2. 老人增加的同时,可能年亲人也在增加
3. 增加的老人未必是coffee drinker
4. consumption increase不代表revenue increase,可能年轻人消费的都是价格贵的可乐,而aged消费的都是便宜的coffee
34. 7月3次,6月1次,本月6次,上月5次(14)
The following appeared as part of a plan proposed by an executive of the Easy Credit Company to the president.
“The Easy Credit Company would gain an advantage over competing credit card services if we were to donate a portion of the proceeds from the use of our cards to a well-known environmental organization in exchange for the use of its symbol or logo on our card. Since a recent poll shows that a large percentage of the public is concerned about environmental issues, this policy would attract new customers, increase use among existing customers, and enable us to charge interest rates that are higher than the lowest ones available.”
1. poll仅仅是show a large percentage of the public is concerned about environmental issues,这和attract new customers, increase use among existing customers没有必然的因果关系,可能他们大部分都不使用credit card,或者已经有别的credit card
2. 可能公众关心的environment和这个well-known environmental organization并不同,也就无法recognize他们的logo
3. 权衡了额外付出的成本和收益之后并不一定值得这么做
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:47
B1. 7月3次,6月5次(8)
The following appeared in a memorandum from the head of a human resources department at a major automobile manufacturing company to the company's managers:
“Studies have found that employees of not-for-profit organizations and charities are often more highly motivated than employees of for-profit corporations to perform well at work when their performance is not being monitored or evaluated. Interviews with employees of not-for-profit organizations suggest that the reason for their greater motivation is the belief that their work helps to improve society. Because they believe in the importance of their work, they have personal reasons to perform well, even when no financial reward is present. Thus, if our corporation began donating a significant portion of its profits to humanitarian causes, our employees’ motivation and productivity would increase substantially and our overall profits would increase as well.”
1. not-for-profit organizations的员工和企业的员工错误类比,即使企业donate,也未必能提高employees’ motivation,员工择业动机就不同
2. 即使可以提高employees’ motivation,未必能提高profit,可能增加了慈善的支出
40. 6月5次,5月10次,4月6次(21)
The following appeared as part of an article in a weekly newsmagazine.
“The country of Sacchar can best solve its current trade deficit problem by lowering the price of sugar, its primary export. Such an action would make Sacchar better able to compete for markets with other sugar-exporting countries. The sale of Sacchar’s sugar abroad would increase, and this increase would substantially reduce Sacchar’s trade deficit.”
1. 降低价格固然能提高竞争力,但是未必export就能增加,可能市场需求已饱和
2. 价格的降低和销量的增加,最后对trade deficit是pos还是neg impact不确定
3. 即使糖打开出口,但未必是解决trade deficit最好的方法,也许减少进口依赖更有效
62. 7月1次, 6月1次,5月7次,4月7次(16)
The following appeared in the letters-to-the-editor section of a local newspaper.
“Muscle Monthly, a fitness magazine that regularly features pictures of bodybuilders using state-of-the-art exercise machines, frequently sells out, according to the owner of Skyview Newsstand. To help maximize fitness levels in our town's residents, we should, therefore, equip our new community fitness center with such machines.”
1. bodybuilders未必是因为使用这些state-of-the-art exercise machines
2. Muscle Monthly frequently sells out未必 machines好,可能是有优惠券
3. 即使机器好,但是未必就适合town residents,并且能maximize fitness levels,可能报上的是专门练肌肉的,而town residents大多是aged,需要另外的器械(有氧运动aerobic exercise)
4. 即使需要的器械一样,效果未必一样好,可能还缺专业训练
11. 6月4次,5月2次,4月5次(11)
The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
“In the first four years that Montoya has served as mayor of the city of San Perdito, the population has decreased and the unemployment rate has increased. Two businesses have closed for each new business that has opened. Under Varro, who served as mayor for four years before Montoya, the unemployment rate decreased and the population increased. Clearly, the residents of San Perdito would be best served if they voted Montoya out of office and reelected Varro.”
1. 缺乏standard ratio of the closed business to new business in the whole country, 不能说两个倒闭一个开就是坏事,很可能淘汰eliminate through selection or contest了out of date的企业,建立了更多具有competitive advantages 的企业。也是好事
2. Montoya市长期间的population, unemployment rate, business不好,并不代表他能力不强,可能正是经济不景气,比起其他城市已经很好了
3. Varro市长期间的population, unemployment rate, business好,并不代表他能力强,可能正好经济环境好,或国家政策倾向
4. 市长的好坏,也不仅仅凭借population, unemployment rate, business这些指标
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:47
72. 7月3次,6月4次,5月10次,4月10次(27)
The following appeared as part of a recommendation from the business manager of a department store.
“Local clothing stores reported that their profits decreased, on average, for the three-month period between August 1 and October 31. Stores that sell products for the home reported that, on average, their profits increased during this same period. Clearly, consumers are choosing to buy products for their homes instead of clothing. To take advantage of this trend, we should reduce the size of our clothing departments and enlarge our home furnishings and household products departments.”
1. A period of three month is too short to draw a general conclusion of the overall trend,可能正好是淡季
2. 即使能表示trend,也不能表示将来的趋势
3. clothing stores的profits decreased以及home product stores的profits increase未必表示consumer change purchase practice,可能别的因素导致采购成本上升,竞争激烈
4. 错误类比,别的店的情况和our store不同,未必switch就能成功,可能即经常光顾我们店的consumer更愿意买clothing
B6. 7月1次 (1)
The following appeared in a letter from a part-owner of a small retail clothing chain to her business partner:
“Commercial real estate prices have been rising steadily in the Sandida Heights neighborhood for several years, while the prices in the adjacent neighborhood of Palm Grove have remained the same. It seems obvious, then, that a retail space in Sandida Heights must now be much more expensive than a similar space in Palm Grove, which was not the case several years ago. So, it appears that retail spaces in Sandida Heights are now overpriced relative to those in Palm Grove. Therefore, it would be in our financial interest to purchase a retail space in Palm Grove rather than in Sandida Heights.”
1. price rise steadily未必绝对值就高,可能原来比较低,即使现在涨了,还是没有Palm Grove高
2. 即使绝对值是S高,未必overpriced,可能发展了
3. past several years不能说明未来的趋势,可能因为别的原因导致相反的趋势,或者将来有更好的发展空间
A1. The following editorial appeared in the South Fork Gazette.
“Last year, the city contracted with Flower Power to plant a variety of flowers in big decorative pots on Main Street and to water them each week. By midsummer many of the plants were wilted. This year the city should either contract for two waterings a week or save money by planting artificial flowers in the pots. According to Flower Power, the initial cost for artificial flowers would be twice as much as for real plants, but after two years, we would save money. Public reaction certainly supports this position: in a recent survey, over 1,200 Gazette readers said that the city wastes money and should find ways to reduce spending.”
1. wilt并不一定是因为真花,或者浇水少,可能别的因素导致,比如空气污染
2. 1200是否随机抽出,是否能够代表大众的意见
3. 大众只是说政府应该find ways to reduce spending,并不代表他们support artificial flowers,可能他们根本不赞成形象工程
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:47
B3. 7月1次
The following appeared in a memorandum from the information technology department of a major advertising firm:
“The more efficient a firm’s employees are, the more profitable that firm will be. Improvements in a firm’s information technology hardware and software are a proven way to increase the efficiency of employees who do the majority of their work on computers. Therefore, if our firm invests in the most powerful and advanced information technology available, employee productivity will be maximized. This strategy ensures that every dollar spent on enhanced information technology will help to increase our firm’s profit margins.”
1. more efficient a firm’s employees are和more profitable that firm will be没有必然的因果关系,可能labor cost降低,但是还有其他cost
2. IT hardware and software未必能increase the efficiency of employees,还涉及流程,管理
3. 即使能,但是可能购置IT hardware and software投入很高,未必能increase profit
43. 7月3次,5月7次,4月8次(18)
The following appeared in an article in the health section of a newspaper.
“There is a common misconception that university hospitals are better than community or private hospitals. This notion is unfounded, however: the university hospitals in our region employ 15 percent fewer doctors, have a 20 percent lower success rate in treating patients, make far less overall profit, and pay their medical staff considerably less than do private hospitals. Furthermore, many doctors at university hospitals typically divide their time among teaching, conducting research, and treating patients. From this it seems clear that the quality of care at university hospitals is lower than that at other kinds of hospitals.”
1. university hospitals employ 15 percent fewer doctors, have a 20 percent lower success rate in treating patients等未必表示quality lower,可能area小,送来的病人情况都是最严重的
2. many doctors at university hospitals typically divide their time among teaching, conducting research, and treating patients不能说明low quality,可能恰恰证明他们的技术更加高超
3. our region推所有
47. The following appeared as part of an article in the business section of a local newspaper.
“The owners of the Cumquat Café evidently made a good business decision in moving to a new location, as can be seen from the fact that the Café will soon celebrate its second anniversary there. Moreover, it appears that businesses are not likely to succeed at the old location: since the Café’s move, three different businesses — a tanning salon, an antique emporium, and a pet-grooming shop — have occupied its former spot.”
1. 在新地址庆祝第二个周年纪念日只能说明,搬到新地址之后咖啡店继续存活了下来但是不是比原来好了作者并没有给出足够的证据证明。
2. 导致另外三家店无法在那个地点经营下去的原因可能并表示不是地址而是其他因素
3. 那个地址就算不适合开那三种店打算内并没有证据证明也不适合开咖啡店
B9.The following appeared in a memorandum to a team developing accounting software for SmartPro Software, Inc.:
“Currently, more professional accountants use SmartPro accounting software than any other brand. However, in the market for personal accounting software for non-professionals to use in preparing their income tax returns, many of our competitors are outselling us. In surveys, our professional customers repeatedly say that they have chosen SmartPro Software because our most sophisticated software products include more advanced special features than competing brands. Therefore, the most effective way for us to increase sales of our personal accounting software for home users would clearly be to add the advanced special features that our professional software products currently offer.”
1. survey是针对professional customers,不能代表home users的需求,可能他们希望操作更加简单,或价格低廉
2. 即使是,但add the advanced special features可能会导致成本上升,带动价格上升,而失去这部分客户
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:47
86. The following appeared as part of an article in the business section of a daily newspaper.
“Company A has a large share of the international market in video-game hardware and software. Company B, the pioneer in these products, was once a $12 billion-a-year giant but collapsed when children became bored with its line of products. Thus Company A can also be expected to fail, especially given the fact that its games are now in so many American homes that the demand for them is nearly exhausted.”
1. B错误类推A
2. America demand exhausted错误推断所有需求减少,可能别的国家需求增加可以offset,B可能推新品
32. 7月1次,6月2次,5月7次,4月6次(16)
The following appeared in the editorial section of a West Cambria newspaper.
“A recent review of the West Cambria volunteer ambulance service revealed a longer average response time to accidents than was reported by a commercial ambulance squad located in East Cambria. In order to provide better patient care for accident victims and to raise revenue for our town by collecting service fees for ambulance use, we should disband our volunteer service and hire a commercial ambulance service.”
1. longer average response time to accidents未必说明volunteer ambulance service不好,可能当地是山区,道路情况不好
2. 即使是,不能类比our town,可能我们town的volunteer ambulance service有更充足的资金,更完善的管理
3. 就算是商业的更快,也不一定更好。反映时间不是唯一的因素,有其他——比如服务的质量,态度,器材等等
4. 除非商业可以charge considerable fees 或者 accident rate非常高,否则未必带来可观的revenue
B8. The following appeared in a presentation by the chief production manager of a machine parts manufacturing company at a management meeting:
“Our factory in Cookville is our most advanced and efficient. It is capable of producing ten drill bits for each dollar of production costs, whereas none of our other factories can produce more than seven drill bits per dollar of production costs. Therefore, we can reduce our overall drill bit production costs by devoting the Cookville factory entirely to drill bit production. Since reducing the production costs of individual machine parts is the only way to achieve our larger goal of reducing our overall production costs, dedicating the Cookville factory entirely to drill bit production and shifting all other machine part production to our other factories will help us to attain that larger goal.”
1. drill bits不能类推到all other individual machine parts, 所以dedicating the Cookville factory entirely to drill bit production and shifting all other machine part production to our other factories未必能reducing the production costs of individual machine parts
2. overall production costs包括很多别的cost,比如maintenance, labor,所以reducing the production costs of individual machine parts并不一定是only way to achieve our goal
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:48
55. The following appeared in an Excelsior Company memorandum.
“The Excelsior Company plans to introduce its own brand of coffee. Since coffee is an expensive food item, and since there are already many established brands of coffee, the best way to gain customers for the Excelsior brand is to do what Superior, the leading coffee company, did when it introduced the newest brand in its line of coffees: conduct a temporary sales promotion that offers free samples, price reductions, and discount coupons for the new brand.”
1. 没有说明Superior公司的操作成功了
2. Superior公司的操作不能类推到Excelsior Company
3. 即使可以成功,可能相同的操作,但是时间不同,效果不同
4. Sales promo可能未必是最好的方法,因为会增加cost,减少revenue,可能更好的是加强广告力度
70. The following appeared in a memorandum from the president of a company that makes shampoo.
“A widely publicized study claims that HR2, a chemical compound in our shampoo, can contribute to hair loss after prolonged use. This study, however, involved only 500 subjects. Furthermore, we have received no complaints from our customers during the past year, and some of our competitors actually use more HR2 per bottle of shampoo than we do. Therefore, we do not need to consider replacing the HR2 in our shampoo with a more expensive alternative.”
1. 500可能是随机抽取的消费者,完全具代表性
2. 去年没有complaint,未必表示没有不满,可能尚未显现,因为要after prolonged use
3. 别人用更多的HR2不代表我们不需要改进,没有因果关系
124. 7月2次,6月2次,5月6次,4月7次(17)
The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Carlo’s Clothing to the staff.
“Since Disc Depot, the music store on the next block, began a new radio advertising campaign last year, its business has grown dramatically, as evidenced by the large increase in foot traffic into the store. While the Disc Depot’s owners have apparently become wealthy enough to retire, profits at Carlo’s Clothing have remained stagnant for the past three years. In order to boost our sales and profits, we should therefore switch from newspaper advertising to frequent radio advertisements like those for Disc Depot.”
1. foot traffic不代表business grow
2. business grow未必是因为radio advertising
3. business grow未必就profit高从而weathy,可能广告成本很高
4. 过去3年不景气,未必将来不好,所以不一定需要switch
5. 不能类推,clothing的target audience可能更关注纸媒
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:48
2. 6月5次,5月11次,4月6次(22)
The following appeared in a memorandum from the business department of the Apogee Company.
“When the Apogee Company had all its operations in one location, it was more profitable than it is today. Therefore, the Apogee Company should close down its field offices and conduct all its operations from a single location. Such centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and helping the company maintain better supervision of all employees.”
1. 过去的more profitable未必就是operations in one location导致的,可能是因为别的因素,比如当时的经济环境更好
2. 时序因果:过去发生的,不是原因,可能过去规模还小,成本小,人员好管理,流程简单,无法确保将来的趋势
3. 虽然centralization可以在一定程度上cut cost,但未必profitable,可能出差交通费用,电信费用的增加更高,更不一定就能
新题:5月10次,4月2次
The argument was about a paragraph from a restaurant business newsletter about small franchise restaurants.
A small restaurant owner, George, opened a pita restaurant in a college town Sallon. His restaurant has been quite successful for the last 2 years. So he decided to open another 3 restaurants in nearby cities and towns. He also plans to promote his 3 employees who have been trained under him to be the managers of the new restaurants. He expects his profits will trip after all restaurants are opened.
1. last 2 years未必表示将来一定能成功,可能有别的因素
2. 不同地点错误类比
3. 雇员当分店经理了可能管理水平不行啦之类的
新题:7月2次,6月2次,5月9次,4月3次(16)
The country of Bonaria held a major soccer event five years ago. Therefore, if the country continues to hold major sport events, tourism will increase rapidly in the country and thus bring benefits to the country's economy.
考古:
[v1]一个B城市:5年前hold an succor competition. 发现相比在这个competition 3年前,在这个competition举办后的3年的number of tourists increased 25%。所有呢,这个B城市打算再举办一次类似的sport event 来吸引游客。这个城市B相信,这个sport event会增加游客人数,同时benefit the country economy.
[v2] AA:5年前办了一个足球比赛,后来旅游发展很好,所以我们应该引进更多的国际体育赛事到B市,就可以吸引游客,带动经济发展
[v3] B国家五年前hosted a international soccer competition 游客增加 所以市长未来想要再办类似的比赛以增加观光收入和国家收益
1、错误的由时间先后推出因果关系
2、过去的成功不能保证将来,存在他因
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:49
新题. 7月5次,6月4次,5月8次,4月6次(23)
说有个调查发现人们越来越喜欢吃健康的食物,于是某fitness gyms决定要在三个section售卖有机食品以期提高利润。
V2.是说一个manager写给Health Fitness还是啥的一个好像是健身连锁公司的建议的根据 a recent survey,发现这个公司的customers大多是organic grocery的潜在顾客吧【这完全是我自己的表达,我记不得原材料了,我理解就是它是说这个survey显示organic grocery在这个company的顾客群中是很有市场的】,然后这个organic grocery要求所在城市有机、未使用农药杀虫剂的蔬菜供应,好像还有一个条件不记得了然后就直接说所以这个company所在的城市显然很适合开organic grocery。建议公司在national organic grocery chains进驻这个city前赶紧建,而且是expand all three fitness gyms to include a organic grocery.说通过此可以增加公司的利润。
上月机经6次
[V1]对一个fitness gym顾客的调查发现他们对吃的健康很感兴趣,所以政府会支持建卖有机食品的店。所以这个gym为了扭转利润长久的不增长因该在所有门店增设利润很高的有机食品店。
[V2] 一个survey表明人们越来越注重饮食健康,喜欢吃organic food, 所以得出结论当地的fitness gyms应该有grocery store,而且要赶在别的商家进来之前
[V3] People are interested in eating healthier, one way is to eat organic food which is grown without chemical and pesticide. Government is supportive for organic food. One grocery manager is recommending expanding their 3 out of 4 existing store to sell organic food.
考古:
.[v1]AA 大概是讲一个调查说这个城市的人开始想健康饮食了,然后一种有机食品商店是健康饮食的一个因素,然后么一个GYM说要在里面也建那个商店,给出理由是什么大的连锁还没进来,要快点建,然后要在其三家GYM都扩展这个业务什么的,这样一来会增加利润之类的。 有心的人去考古一下吧,不过我没找到...
[v2] 就是最近的一个survey得出结论,现在的人更喜欢吃的营养,而吃的营养的一种方法就是吃有机食品。所以作者就建议说在那个市里开有机食品店,在这种有机食品还没有普遍的情况下打开市场。而且这个店要开在体育馆里,还是三个体育馆每个都设立这样一个grocery food store(类似)这样可以增加体育馆的收入。
主要有的问题是 survey本身的问题,recently太模糊,还有无因果,无端假设,我觉得还有错误类比,过去推将来这样的trend
AA是一个健身房想要卖有机食品的那题。
[v3] from a customer survey, people like to buy organic food.and the government is ready to support organic stores. therefore, business manager recommended to establish organic food section in the company's three gyms.
新题:本月7次
Argument关键字,Software company, Temporary workforce
上月机经7次
argument 是说有个 software company 为了提高profit, 打算switching their full time worker to temperate workforce. 理由是因为汽车行业有公司通过用part-time worker 来降低成本,并且取得了很好的成效,所以这个software 公司也打算这么做,说是把25%full-time 换成part-time 就可以增加短期收入和保证长期利益稳定
[V2]estman Software company那篇,说要学习auto industry将人换成temporary basis to cut cost。说可以get high profit。
以下为上个月寂静中的观点:
[v2]一家电脑软件公司三年没利润了,因此公司must cut the budgets。因为computer software industry普遍employ part-time workers,这家公司也将要这么做。part-time worker的工资少,而且可以不用给职工福利。这家公司即将shift 25%的full-time worker换为part-time的,这样公司会增加利润。
提供观点:
1、 错误的类比:软件业和汽车业
2、 不一定能带来收入、利益的稳定:可能导致员工积极性下降
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:49
6月5次,5月7次,4月5次(17)
The following appeared in a memorandum from the CEO of a consumer electronics manufacturing firm to the head of the company's human resources department, who is responsible for hiring new employees:
“Eight years ago, our firm’s profits were increasing with each new employee we added. We discovered that each employee had the skills and motivation to generate more revenue for the firm than his or her salary cost us. However, for the past two years, our profit margin has been falling, even though we have continued to add employees. Thus, our newer employees are not generating enough revenue to justify their salaries. We must not be hiring new employees with the same level of skills and motivation as those we used to attract. Clearly, then, failures in the human resources department account for our falling profits.”
1. profits increase未必只和employee有关, 所以decrease也未必完全是employee的问题
2. 过去不能代表未来
3. 不一定是HR的问题
7月2次,6月1次,5月7次,4月4次(14)
原题:"Research indicates that those who exercise regularly are hospitalized less than half as often as those who don’t exercise. By providing a well-equipped gym for Saluda’s municipal employees, we should be able to reduce the cost of our group health insurance coverage by approximately 50 percent and thereby achieve a balanced town budget."(106 or 108)
1. 提供well-equipped gym和improve fitness没有必然联系,可能大家不愿意去锻炼或没时间去
2. 提供well-equipped gym和reduce the cost of our group health insurance coverage没有必然因果关系,可能因为运动伤害增加了医疗开支
3. 也未必能achieve a balanced town budget,要考虑cost
7月7次,6月1次,5月7次,4月2次(17)
V1.Afun toys company successfully use the module which that senior employees take on an aprrence,让新员工观察老员工然后从中学习. 这样的话可以减少很多cost for training program。有人建议他们的公司应该学习这个fun toys company.
V2.摘自a human resouce director in a tire manufacturing company.
”The cost of training the new employee plays an important role in the overall expense of a company. 象the Fun Toys Company 发起一个Apprentice Training Progam. 他们给senior empoloyee发 salary bounus 如果他们自愿参加这个项目。在这个项目中new employee can learn business patterns from the senior employee这样来降低新员工的培训成本。 so no more expensive and cost programs are needed. 所以我们公司也应该象FUN Toys Company 一样用这中项目降低新员工培训的成本。”
粉红栀TX提供的思路:
1 False Analogy. 错误类比了我们公司(tire manufacturing company 和 Fun Toys Company)
2 One-sidedness. 没有考虑cost-effect analysis. 在这个项目实施过程中,给老员工发的salary bonus 可能大于省下的training cost. 并且在学习过程中,新员工可能会学到老员工的一些坏习惯,比如错误操作等
3 “no more expensive ...... are needed.” 过于绝对。在Apprentice Training Program中新员工只能学到专业技能,操作,但是对团队协作力,团队建设等没有很好的培训到。
上月机经2次
A fun toys company sussefully use the module which that senior employees take on an aprrence,让新员工观察老员工然后从中学习. 这样的话可以减少很多expense time for training program。有人建议他们的公司应该学习这个fun toys company.
考古:
[v1]一个公司要省新员工培训费,决定让老员工参加一个program,记录他们的habits and activities,让新员工follow,以省去高昂的cost
[v2] AA是培训员工很费钱,一个玩具商店取消了员工培训,让员工自己向老员工学习,但是有技能的员工有奖励,所以作者的公司也想这么干。
观点:
1.老员工的不一定适合新员工啊,时代在变化嘛
2.可能老员工参加的program也会花费很多
7月2次,6月5次,5月6次,4月5次(18)
原题:The following is taken from an editorial in a local newspaper.
“Over the past decade, the price per pound of citrus fruit has increased substantially. Eleven years ago, Megamart charged 5 cents apiece for lemons, but today it commonly charges over 30 cents apiece. In only one of these last eleven years was the weather unfavorable for growing citrus crops. Evidently, then, citrus growers have been responsible for the excessive increase in the price of citrus fruit, and strict pricing regulations are needed to prevent them from continuing to inflate prices.”(89)
1. 柠檬推citrus fruit, Megamart推所有果农,类推错误
2. 即使天气因素可以排除,价格的上涨并非是由果农导致,可能和通货膨胀,生产成本有关,或者是dealer推高价格
3. 即使apply了strict pricing regulations可能还是无法不涨,自由市场的政府干预,可能make things even worse
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:50
7月1次,6月4次,5月6次,4月5次(16)
v1讲工作在家不如在办公室好,
V2.it's unwise for people to quit office job to become self-employed and work from home.
V3.it is financially unwise for people working at home。Author给了三点理由,第一,家里各种noisy neighbor, telephone call什么的会打扰到你;第二,在家里工作的人没有schedule;第三,在家会socially &professionally isolated,所以不能career advancement。Therefore,作者总结,对long-tern 在家工作earning less money than在办公室工作。
感谢athue提供的思路:
我从三个方面来说的:
第一, 无理假设,no evidence is stated in the argument so support that在家工作的人没schedule和会有很多distraction打扰到你。
第二, 忽略他因,作者没有考虑到career advancement的其他原因,只说员工如果不professional的话,那就没有career advancement。
第三, 没有全面考虑有关earning的多个方面,即使在office工作可能收入会高一些,但是员工的成本也高啦,比如transportation fee。
上月机经 5次
提供观点:因为——
(1)在家里工作的人比较懒散,没有set schedule,所以会干…,会avoid working
(2)在家工作的人因为socially & professionally isolated,没法借出最新的information,所以career advancement少
(3)在家里工作会有很多distraction:noisy neighbor, household chores, telephone calls。
总结就是在家里的话,赚钱会比在办公室里面工作少
考古
这道题貌似在OG中无对应题目,JJ如下:
1、 讲工作在家不如在办公室好,因为在家的人比较懒散,不会有计划工作,所以也就不会有更多机会晋升,再所以说,在办公室工作赚钱比在家的更多。(大概就这个意思)
[v2] 在办公室工作比在家里工作要赚的钱多。【差不多啦,就是什么financial什么的】
给了三个理由
(1)在家里工作的人没有set schedule,所以就会干嘛(那个词不认识,反正就是类似不好好工作吧),会avoid working
(2)在家工作的人因为socially &professionally isolated,所以career advancement少
(3)在家里工作会有很多distraction:什么邻居啊,还有household chores 还有一个什么的。
总结就是在家里的话,赚钱会比在办公室里面工作少。
[v3] 就是在办公室工作和在家工作比较:从经济角度考虑放弃在办公室工作而在家工作室不明智的,因为在家工作有很多东西让你分心,eg telephone call, noisy neighbour...而且在家工作会使人isolated么办法接触最新的information. 最后会导致收入么在办公室收入高。
提供观点:
1.这个有些人比较适合一个人在家里工作,有些人不习惯communication, 比如说很多的电脑天才都喜欢自己一个人研究, 睡到自然醒,反而必须的schedue 不符合他们的工作。
2.在家里工作的话会省掉很多办公室的utility expense, 这样公司可以给更多的钱给职工。
3.升职的话更多的是需要的能力,况且可以通过网络视频或者周末出去吃饭。 同样可以交流
所以选好邻居很重要,说不定你的邻居可以成为你职业上的帮忙。。
6月4次,5月5次,4月4次(13)
说一个咖啡馆在网站上建了一个feedback的专页,并将网址打印在给每位顾客的Receipt上面。发现一段时间后只有一百多条抱怨和几十条建议,而在此期间咖啡馆却售出了30000杯饮料,于是作者认为咖啡馆的服务和产品非常好。
上月机经4次
A Cafe build a website to allow the feed back of its customer in the past six months. The address of the site is clearly sited on the **(忘了,单词大家能认识),The site only receive 178 complaint and 33 advise,but the number of total receipts is 33,000.Conclusion:the Cafe does not need to evaluate and improve the service.
[V2] 一个customer service department manager的report:
从六个月前开始,有一个Cafe在每一个receipt上面都印了一个website address,是一个customer feedback page。所以每一个顾客都不难找到。到现在为止,该公司只收到一百多条complaints和不到一百条suggestions,而从有feedback page到现在该公司一共卖了三万杯coffee drink(总之是很大的一个数)。因此可以assume that顾客对这个公司的产品和服务fully satisfied,不需要改进提升之类。
1. complaint少,未必代表顾客满意,可能很多人没有注意到这个网页的存在
2. 售出咖啡多,也未必代表质量和服务好,可能该店是附近唯一一家咖啡店
7月3次,6月2次,5月5次,4月2次(12)
V1一个新的服装企业 发展五年要开自己的retail store ,作者建议clients 购进这个企业的衣服,因为有很强的竞争力,而且CEO是原来很有名气的rock star (我总觉得是艾薇儿的那个clothes line)
V2.某集团的某产品在一些连里面销售不错。所以他们计划打算自己卖(在超市里面)。有一个投资经理忽悠客户叫他们赶紧买这家公司的股票。因为上面的原因。还有一个更搞笑的,该公司CEO是“前”摇滚明星。具有recognition知名度,能号召Young什么的购买力。
V3.讲的是一个young rising company 扩张了自己的业务,并且为了company的成功给出了两种预测——第一个是由于员工的极力推荐,可以使这个这个公司的发展获得成功。第二个是由于该company 的CEO是一个rock star,通过该CEO的star power也可以促使这个young rising company 获得成功
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:58
上月机经2次
说有间clothing is the new trend for youth apparel,然后financial analyst 建议investment firm to purchase this company based on the following。
因为:1.the company has been profitable in past 5 years 2.management has been very aggressive in expansion. They plan to open 125 stores this year 3. CEO is a former rock star and the album has been the top sales. The star power will be Influential
没有找到原题,上月寂静里曾经出现过,如下:
下面文字出现在某财务分析员写给咨询公司老板的memo上
某后起的服装公司专门生产迎合年轻人潮流的牛仔裤等休闲衣物, 之前五年都是通过零售商销售的, 销售连续增长。 最近这家公司准备建立自己的销售渠道,在商场里设自己直营的专卖店。 我们建议客户马上去买他们的股票。 因为1,这家公司很有实力,管理很激进。 2,他家CEO是一个有若干金曲的前摇滚明星,在年轻人里有知名度,可以保证销量和品牌效应。
提供观点:
1、过去5年盈利不保证将来也会盈利,新的销售渠道的建立(改变销售渠道)可能会对销量产生负面影响
2、不充分:有实力管理激进不能推断出股东能获利
3、前摇滚明星有知名度有粉丝,但管理好公司还需要专业的CEO
4、前摇滚明星不能保证在未来的一代青年人中一直保持高知名度
7月5次,6月1次,5月5次,4月3次(14)
卖车店把豪华车放在广告中以及店中央可以比便宜的车得到更多的收入
上月机经3次
有一个卖汽车的公司在June的时候大力为他们的Luxury automobile做广告,luxury和inexpensive的mobiles的combined的sales很好;在February做的是 inexpensive的广告,就卖得不好。所以以后要大力做luxury的广告,可以吸引顾客,顾客一定会被吸引让后买很多,赚死了。
考古:
[v1]是一个Business Manager Memo的建议, 说6月份因为把luxury auto和inexpensive cars同时推广,得到了历史最高的销售记录。而二月份之推广了inexpensive car.所以以后应该吧 luxury car作为主打产品。
[v2] it said about in july, company advertised in local newspaper, combing selling luxury car and inexpensive car revenue. larter, the revenue decreased when company just sales inexpensive along. it is genearlly what it said...
[v3]某公司经理说7月份该公司做广告大力宣传豪华汽车,同时把豪华汽车摆放在展厅重要位置,该公司的豪华汽车以及inexpensive的汽车销量很高;2月份主要广告宣传inexpensive汽车,同时把inexpensive汽车摆放在展厅重要位置。但是总体销量不高。所以经理总结说,要把宣传和展示豪华车作为重点,blablabla
提供观点:
1. 错误的认为trend会一直延续下去
2. 错误的由时间关系推因果联系
3. 方案不充分,没理由推断顾客一定会买昂贵的车
4. revenue销售收入只是考察销售情况的其中一个指标,还应该考虑profit margin利润和ratio of profit利润率。某种程度上讲,利润和利润率比销售收入更重要,它反映的是一个公司的真正的盈利能力。(感谢lecit同学提供本条观点)
7月4次,6月1次,5月4次,4月4次(13)
AA:手机生产需要大量的贵金属,而贵金属的价格在过去十年中大幅变动。工厂过去的产量一直在增加,并预计将来也会增加。因此,立即购买大量贵金属会锁定变动并且达到利益最大化。
上月机经 4次
V1.手机厂的重要零件是贵金属,价格波动大,公司应该提前大量购买以确保利润不受损
[V2] 大概就是说有一个叫Cellophone公司作了一个plan,因为过去手机金属原料价格时高时低,现在有一个forecast说以后这个公司的cellphone division要expand而且会有high-volume purchasing,所以说要现在大量买入金属原材料,来lock cost。
考古:
V1说一个cell phone manufacturer, 要买一大批很贵的material 因为怕以后买价格会涨
[v2] AA关于手机和贵金属的关系,贵金属现在越来越贵,然后手机制造者要lock cost of metal,然后增加收益
提供观点:
1、过去十年趋势未必代表未来趋势
2. 即使提前采购了,该贵金属是否在决定手机成本中起重要作用?可能影响甚微
3. 即使在成本中起重要作用,但也未必能利润最大化,可能因此造成额外仓储费用或增加报损率
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 11:59
6月3次,5月4次,4月7次(14)
v1一political leader说national parks前五年revenue下跌,那地方有mineral deposit, 要是改成mining company可以提供jobs和tax revenue,所以要把national parks改成mining company。
V2.将一个一tourism为经济主要来源的国家因为环境污染而使经济受到影响,然后在national park 发现mine deposit, 就说mining 可以给政府更多的taxes,并促进就业。 conclusion: permitting mining 对这个国家经济复苏有利。
V3.由于近五年的工业污染导致国家公园对游客的吸引力下降,从而国家公园收入降低。但是最近在国家公园地底下发现矿物质,如果对其进行开采则不仅可以解决了政府税收问题,解决国家公园收入问题,还可以提供大量的就业。因此认为开采矿物质是最好的复兴经济的办法。
1、采矿会加剧污染。缺少analysis of cost and benefit其导致的旅游业减少所带来的损失可能超过采矿业带来的收益。
2、失业的旅游业工人不一定具备成为矿工的技能
3、除去开矿外还可能有别的促进经济的政策
4、通过治理环境很可能重新振兴旅游业
7月6次,6月4次,5月4次,4月5次(19)
说航空公司利润去年降了了20%,列了3个理由,油价涨了,新开航线还是公司来,还有一个想不起来了....然后说其它公司都面临油价上涨,但有公司利润增加,所以不是油价的原因,结论想提高利润关新开的operation.
V2. Provincia Airline最近利润狂降,调查可能有两个原因:一是油价涨,二是他们开通新航线。.但是另一项调查表明其他航空公司也经历了油价上涨,但是利润也上涨,因此表明油价涨并不是我们公司利润狂降的唯一原因.为了提高利润,我们应该停止开通新航线。(好像狗说的是买新飞机?难道LZ读错了== )
V3. Provincia Airline的利润降低了。可能有两个原因。1.rising oil prices 导致 fuel cost 上涨。2.它最近增加了5个城市的航班。而其他的航空公司也经历了rising oil prices但却没有增加那5个城市的航班,所以呢,原因2才是真正的原因。(我觉得些这个相对别的argument有点小难度...)
1. 其他航空公司也经历了油价上涨未必表示油价不是PA利润下降的原因,可能别的航空公司采用了省油型的飞机,并且合理安排了航线,以提高效率,而PA公司还是老型号的费油型飞机
2. 未必是5个新航线导致利润低,可能老航线竞争不过别家,上座率太低
3. 所以,关闭5条新航线也未必能挽救利润
7月4次,6月4次,5月1次(9)
The following appeared in a memorandum from the director of human resources to the executive officers of
Company X:
“Last year, we surveyed our employees on improvements needed at Company X by having them rank, in order of importance, the issues presented in a list of possible improvements. Improved communications between employees and management was consistently ranked as the issue of highest importance by the employees who responded to the survey. As you know, we have since instituted regular communications sessions conducted by high-level management, which the employees can attend on a voluntary basis. Therefore, it is likely that most employees at Company X now feel that the improvement most needed at the company has been made.”
1. instituted regular communications sessions conducted by high-level management未必能解决问题,可能员工更希望的是1-1 face to face的职业规划指导,而不是virtual的大会
2. survey代表性,因为communication的问题是回答了survey的人认为需要改善的,但是可能还有没有回答的人,所以即使instituted regular communications sessions有效,未必most employees at Company X now feel that the improvement most needed at the company has been made.
3. 调查的有效性:即使员工都回答了,但是未必他们真正关心的问题列在了survey里面
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 12:00
4. issue模板 (410)
把题目改写一下 ? There has been an intense dispute over this controversial issue. Some people assert that.., while other people believe that… Given its complexity in nature there is no universal answer to this question. As a matter of fact whether one choice takes precedence over the other may quite depend on the specific situation. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the author’s general assertion that if *** (即在作者的观点上,加上一些条件,有保留地赞同). (140-150)
论证1+举例 (70)
论证2+举例(70)
论证3+举例(70)
In conclusion, the issue that ...is complicated, requiring comprehensive analysis and subjective judgement. Consequently there are no easy or certain answers. People from different background and with distinct profile will claim themselves proponents for their own perspectives. From the above mentioned reasons, I contend that...because....(50)
作者: s 时间: 2012-2-1 12:00
5. arguement模板
In this argument, the author claims/concludes that… (作者的conclusion)To support his conclusion, the author points out that…. In addition, the author reasons that… Further more, he also assumes that … . (列出三个会攻击的地方)At first glance the arguement might seem somewhat appealing. However, close examination reveals that the reasoning lacks crucial supporting factors and therefore is not entirely logic and convincing. It is flawed in the following three aspects.(90)
高频理由(按频率由高到低排列)
每分段的结构:1)引用原文,引出logic flaw 2)展开解释 3)举反例 4)归纳总结
时序性因果攻击
Firstly, the author is engaged in ‘after this, therefore, because of this’ reasoning. the author’s solution rests on the assumption that A is the cause of B just because A happened before B. However, a mere sequence correlation does not necessarily prove a causal relationship. This reasoning is fallacious unless other possible/prospective causal factors have been considered and ruled out. For example, perhaps C. As a result, without detailed analysis of the real source of B, it would be rash and groundless to attribute B to A.
同时性因果攻击
Secondly, the author is engaged in ‘together with this, therefore, because of this’ reasoning.
the author’s solution rests on the assumption that A is the cause of B just because A coincided with B. However, a mere sequence correlation does not necessarily prove a causal relationship. This reasoning is fallacious unless other possible/prospective causal factors have been considered and ruled out. For example, perhaps C. As a result, without detailed analysis of the real source of B, it would be rash and groundless to attribute B to A.
无因果关系
The author’s solution rests on the assumption that A is the cause of B . However, a mere correlation does not necessarily prove a causal relationship. In fact/On the contrary, A will bring negative impact on B.
不随时变攻击Moreover, the author unfairly assumes that A will remains unchanged just because of its historical reputation. Statistics or evidence from the past is not a good indicator to substantiate that the trend will continue in the future. The author overlooks that factors used to be favorable to A might change as time goes by and therefore that the same factors can no longer guarantee any future status. In fact, it is possible that this trend will greatly fluctuate or even reverse given the external impact from…. For example, ….Consequently the position that … is weakened.
成本问题The author assumes that…. This assumption is never supported with any data or projections. Nor is there thorough cost-benefit analysis in the argument. If the increase of cost overweighs that of benefits…will fall in trouble of losing rather than gaining money. Additionally, the author fails to take into account contingencies caused by the …. such as labor and material costs, legislative moves, competition, market changes, and the national or international cycle , all of which can lead to the dropping profit. In short, this assumption must be supported with a thorough cost-benefit analysis of … versus other possible cost-cutting and/or profit-enhancing strategies.
调查类错误
样本随机/数量攻击the author asserts that… and therefore… The problem that seriously weakens the logic of this argument is that the samples for the survey are of little statistical reliability. The mere sample size alone doesn't indicate any information of its representativeness./the survey cited is based on too small a sample to be reliable. If…then…(假设样本数量(不)准确的方式) So unless information on…is provided/ it can be shown that the sample is typical of all general group, it is groundless to claim that…
忽略他因攻击Secondly, the author assumes that … was responsible for …. However, the only evidence for this claim is insufficient to establish the causal claim in question. While a___ is seemingly important factor in determining b____, it is hardly the only or even necessarily required element. This assumption overlooks other crucial criteria in determining … For example, …. Consequently, it is possible that … was unrelated to … in the manner required by the author’s argument.
错误类比攻击
Even if the reasoning may be sound in general sense成立, it is highly doubtful that strategies drawn from A are applicable to B. However, differences between these two clearly outweigh the similarities, therefore making the analogy much less valid. For example, 。。。. Accordingly, we can see that A and B are so dissimilar that B is unlikely to experience the same consequence if it adopts A’s strategies.
范围内推攻击 What’s more, the most egregious reasoning error in this argument is that the author uses evidence pertaining to a general group on the basis of a particular B. Even if the reasoning may be sound in general sense, the particular situation in which B is involved may not be representative of the entire general group. It is possible that... If this is the case, the claim that… is ill founded.
To sum up, the argument is not well reasoned as it stands. The evidences provided in the analysis do not lend strong support and therefore they fail to defend the conclusion the argument seeks to establish. To make the argument more convincing, the author is recommended to provide more information that...Additionally he will also have to demonstrate that...If the given factors discussed above had been included the reasoning would have been more meticulous and thus more logically acceptable. (90)
若实在不够字数,可在结尾段加入具体的说明作者如何没有successfully provide compelling evidences to 证明conclusion.
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