8月GMAT作文新题-AA翻译版

linly

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题库: 14        频率：1

原始狗：
tracy沁
7.29
AA 某学校用了interactive computer instruction后辍学率低了，学生的表现也好了，所以建议以后的预算要对所有课程adopt interactive computer instruction
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.”
Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
两年前Nova高中开始在3个科学科目中使用互动计算机指导。学校的退学率立刻下降，而且去年的毕业生在大学取得了一些很不错的成绩。在未来的预算中，校董事会应该在能得到的资金中拨出更大的一块用来购买更多的计算机。而且这一区的所有学校都应该在课程中采用互动计算机指导。
提纲：
1，        没有排除他因。很可能是学校出台的policy要求老师上课认真，学生更加勤奋导致的。同时发生不能说明因果。stricter discipline applied last year.
还有其他的比如加入新课引起学生的兴趣等等。counseling and training programs
2，        错误类比，其他的学校情况跟这个不一定相同。比如很可能是艺术类等文科院校，而这个是科学类的，所以不同。
3，        过去推将来，不对。很可能短暂的interest之后学生会失去兴趣。或者别的什么情况发生了变化。

linly

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题库: 32        频率：1

原始狗：
kuangchu
7.29
AA:第二个是一个根据一个这个镇东边部分的数据说明了支援者救助车祸反应时间慢于商业的救护车？然后政府就决定用商业的救护车来增加政府收益（注意，题目最上方说这个政府是西部的）
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.”
Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
1、        错误类比
适合West Cambria 的不一定适合Ease Cambria
2、        非此即彼
不一定非要disband volunteer service 可以把volunteer service and commercial ambulance service 结合
3、.对事故的反映时间诚然是评价服务质量的一个因素但并不是唯一的因素.所以仅仅因为东区的商业救护班的反映时间短就认定商业救护办的服务更好是gratuitous的.

linly

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题库: 34        频率：1

原始狗：
yueqianchen
7.29
感谢 yueqianchen提供原文
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.”
Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
Easy信贷公司的一个经营主管向董事长提交的一份计划：
如果我们将信用卡所得的利润中的一部分捐给一个知名的环保组织换取在我们的信用卡上使用他们的标识的权利，Easy信贷公司将在信用卡服务的竞争中得到很大好处。由于最近的民调显示，很多人都关心环境问题，这一计划将吸引新顾客，提高现有顾客的使用量，并使我们得到比最低利润率要高的利润率。
提纲：
1.环保组织所提供的标识所关心的方面和民众所关心的方面可能不一致
2.关心环保问题不意味着他们就一定会采取一些具体的措施象是在这个例子里面购买这个公司的产品
The author assumes that the public's concern about environmental issues will result in its taking steps to do something about the problem-in this case, to use the Easy Credit Company credit card.
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.

1.首先，关心环境的人，不一定是使用信用卡的。第二，关心环境问题的人，关心的issues不一定与该组织的相同。
2.因果关系不明确：不一定人们关心环保就一定用使用信用卡的方式来表达。因为More often，人们可能采取更加直接的方式，比如直接donate money to the environmental organization.
3.另外，利润率关系到收入和支出，很可能两个比较收入小于支出。

linly

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题库:         频率：1

原始狗：
mercury95
7.29
Argument: It is unwise to quit a stable office job in order to be self-employed and work at home. 给出的理由是，在家办公容易受neighbor影响，没效率，经常avoid working等等。然后又说在家办公isolated with the work place, 对career advancement不好。所以不应该quit stable office job and become self-employed.
tkrayla
8.04
AA 说在办公室工作比在家工作好。有三个论点 1 在家工作的人会面对更多的abstraction，比如 邻居 电话 家务等等。2 在家工作的人更没有时间计划，更倾向与avoid work 3 与社会和人群隔离，会对人的career advance有限制。整个argument都没有举例和调查。
待补充

linly

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题库: 125        频率：1

原始狗：
美国大番茄
7.29
由于本人在上海，无电脑，现在用手机慢慢回忆，比较慢，请耐心等候…
有个地区有三家店连续两年营业额上升，因此他们决定再开三家店。并且要求他们遵循一个program:任何一个顾客在去了两家店以后，可以获得去第三家店的折扣，这样可以保证三家店都获利什么的………
mihayixiaolu
8.04
argument是说某个地方的三个business过去两年business大增，所以Capital Ideal 也应该开三个business，又提出了一个program，说光顾两个店的顾客也应在第三个店得到discount。
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.”
Capital Idea投资公司的商业计划：
在ParkHill区的Thespian剧院，Pizzazz比萨，Niblick高尔夫俱乐部在过去2年都有业务增长。因此Capital Idea应该投资Poxy剧场，Slic－o比萨和Divot高尔夫俱乐部这3家新的Irongate区的企业。为使他们达到条件，我们应该要求他们参加特殊的项目：任何顾客在其中两家消费将在第三家得到折扣。通过刺激顾客在所有3家店消费，我们将增进每一家的利润，从而使我们的回报最大化。

1、错误类比
2、错误的假设所有的顾客都会partronize two of the businesses
3、The business increases occured in the past two years. No one can guarantee the future profit.

linly

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题库:         频率：2

原始狗：
scottrade
7.29
AA：一个software company 公司准备cut budget 因为连续三年的利润不好，他们决定向auto industry学习，auto industry用part-time的labor代替full-time employees节约了不少的成本,他们的利润相当的丰厚，所以software company也会采取auto industry的方法来获取利润。。。
kirnamilk
8.03
Argument: 引用一下前人的机经：AA：一个software company 公司准备cut budget 因为连续三年的利润不好，他们决定向auto industry学习，auto industry用part-time的labor代替full-time employees节约了不少的成本,他们的利润相当的丰厚，所以software company也会采取auto industry的方法（补充：by cuting 25% of its full-time employee来获取利润(make profit in short term and stablility in the long term)
待补充

linly

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题库: 新题1        频率：1

原始狗：
andrewyen001
7.30
AA: 老题，就是说那个empolyees of not for profit orgnizations are more motivated than other employees, so our corporation should donate money to humanitarian causes to maximize the overall profits
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.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
（1）非营利组织的因果推理（causality）存疑：非营利组织员工的工作动因可能来自于其他原因，而不只是某种信念。例如，非营利组织中的固定员工也是实行薪酬制的，所以，他们积极工作的众多理由中，当然包括谋生，而且，相对于赚钱盈利而言，赈灾扶贫等花钱的工作还是相对容易的。
　　（2）非营利组织与营利组织的可比性（comparability）存疑：即使该汽车制造公司将一部分利润投入公益，仍然不能回避这两种组织存在的固有差异，导致经验不可借鉴。例如，营利组织的员工多为中青年人，生活压力大，需要更多的是利益驱动，来改善生活、养育后代；非营利组织的员工中的志愿者多为老年人或者学生，生活压力较小，需要的是发挥余热或者学习经验。
　　（3）营利组织的对未来草率预期（expectation）存疑：即使投资公益能够带来员工工作更加积极主动的结果，进一步认为这样就能提高整体利润水平（overall profit）是没有根据的。因为利润等于收入减成本，而这两个变量从原文中无从得知，所以，有可能因为政府税率的提高，而使得利润降低或持平。

linly

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题库:         频率：1

原始狗：
sunny7648
7.30
作文AA是说一个fitness公司的manager通过一个survey发现 现在人们越来越关注healthy life, 通过吃现在很受欢迎
organic food可以达到很健康的水品，所以要在他的3家fitness gym里面都要加一个organic grocery section。这样可以收到很多顾客的青睐。获得更多profit。
待补充

linly

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题库: 1    AWA224-1        频率：1

原始狗：
charlottechi  
感谢charlottechi同学，细心的找出的原题，标出重点
7.30
AA 原题也找到了！
1. 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.”
Discuss how well reasoned... etc

提纲：
1.        false analogy: The food industry is not analogous to the color film industry.
2.        causal oversimplification: Other factors that may contribute t to the cost decline of the printing cost should be considered and ruled out.
3.        gratuitous assumption: The conclusion of the argument is based on a gratuitous assumption that the company  can minimize cost and maximize profit because the company has been conducted for 25 years.

1.         错误类比：color film processing和processing of food不相同。problems of spoilage, contamination, and timely transportation都只影响food 不影响film.
2.        同时，忽略他因。是否是因为组织更有效率才使COST下降的？很可能是material necessary for the process下降了价钱。所以，两者更不同。
3.        gratuitous assumption：二十五年不代表学到了很多。很可能什么都没学到，或者技术已经out of date.

linly

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题库: 39  AWA224-39        频率：2

原始狗：
Scarlettma
7.30
AA 说一个叫avia’ airline ，在一千个乘客里面就收到9个人关于他们 luggage handling procedure的投诉，然后说这个比例还不到百分之一，所以说明绝大多数的乘客是很满意的，所以不用去review这些procedure了，即使这样以后的乘客还是可以保证的而且increase。
deeepsnow
8.02
AA：飞机乘客抱怨：1000个里面只有90个人抱怨，所以不打紧。
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.”
Discuss how well reasoned... etc.

Avia航空的部门备忘录：
平均地，去年乘坐Avia的1000个乘客中有9个针对我们的行李处理流程写了投诉信。这说明虽然有大约1%的乘客对这一流程表示不满，乘客的主体对它还是满意的。所以对流程的重新审查对我们要保持和提高Avia的乘客数这一目标不是很重要的。
提纲：
1去年是这样今年呢以后呢？
2很有可能是乘客对服务不满意却没时间正式申诉
3和别的航空公司比较如何seriousness trivailize

1.没有complaint不代表没有不满。
2.没有跟其他公司对比，同时并不知道总数。