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发表于 2010-8-28 12:13:29
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10# nieyong
楼主好人啊, 我还有两天就考了,希望楼主帮忙看一下,谢谢哈
TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
WORDS: 466
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010/8/26 22:24:08
The speaker asserts that government should pay less attention on restricting the scientific research and development. I concede that, under some circumstance, the government should provide a free atmosphere for the scientists to conduct the research. Nevertheless, in attempt to strike a balance on the comprehensive development of the human society, some measures should be taken to restrict the undue evolution on science.
Admittedly, sometimes the scientific research looks ahead of the public and so creative that the government less understands and fails to judge its stand or fall. If with the over restriction on the research, some scientists would lose their passion to continue studying further. History could illustrate this point. During the prosperous religious period, the government with the limitation of feudal thought has impeded the process of scientific development or even the society. Additionally, the free atmosphere of academic could inspire more scientists to immerge themselves in studying. Consider, for instance, Einstein, in order to pursue the free environment of research, he left Germany for America. Consequently, the free environment could maximize human curiosity and imagination, also, impels them to search the new discovery.
However, some reasonable restrictions should be conducted to the scientific research, that certify the benefits of the majority. As we know, the science is a double-edged sword. Such as the nuclear energy, on the one hand, its research facilitates the establishment of nuclear power station which save the cost of generating energy, on the other hand, it produces the nuclear weapon with the potential danger, which is once used to war, would bring catastrophe to the human being. Similar to the technology of clone and gene engineering, to some extent, they have cured many people and prolonged their life. However, when it comes to its application to the production of people with high quality, it would induce the conflict racial problem and mess up the sequence of the society. Viewed of this fashion, it is advisable for the government to take some rational steps or proclaim some laws to condition the side effect of the scientific research.
Furthermore, the government should pay more emphasis on a certain realms of scientific research and restrict them to balance the development of each scientific filed. For example, the software engineering can bring the immediate benefits to some groups, while the astronomy and biology might cost too long time to acquire any little progress and we cannot get effect instantly. If without the government's coordination, some domains just like the astronomy and biology would gradually fall into a decline.
From the analysis above, the government should provide the scientists sufficient freedom to conduct the scientific research which benefits the majority. Nevertheless, some rational measures should be taken to restrict the side effects of the scientific research and balance the evolution of human being.
TOPIC: ARGUMENT10 - The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a Batavia newspaper.
"The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure both lower prices and an adequate supply of milk for consumers."
WORDS: 466
TIME: 00:30:00
DATE: 2010/8/26 22:24:08
To support the recommendation that we'd better reduce the retail price of the milk to ensure an adequate supply of milk for the consumers, the arguer cites a series of evidences that
the number of dairy farms increases, while bring the result that higher prize of the milk. And the arguer asserts that the farmers get excessive profits from the supply of milk. Close scrutiny of each of evidence, however, reveals that it suffers from a host of critical fallacies.
To begin with, the premise of this claim that the farmers have received excessive benefits from the supply of milk, is lack of convince. The arguer provides no statistics to illustrate the cost the farmers spend on the produce of milk, as well as the profits from the retails of milk. What's more, he fails to inform us whether the profits have exceeded the standard of the equal producers in the market. Without such information, how could we know the profits that the farmers received are excessive? Thus, the hasty conclusion to the farmers is unfair.
Furthermore, there are many critical points in the evidence cited by the arguer, that the prize of milk increases a time than before on the base of the increasing of the number of the dairy farms. First, the increase of the dairy farms' number is unnecessary to attribute the increase of the production of milk. Common sense informs us that the increase of the production could lead to the decrease of the prize. While, there is no any more evidence about the production of the milk. It is absolutely possible that the production per farm has decreased that led the supply of the milk in the market is consistent with its demand or even lower than its demand. In addition, the relation between the price and the production is unnecessary. The increase of the price has something to do with other factors, such as inflation, because the argument has no signs about the details of the whole market or the condition of other producers.
Finally, the arguer recommends to regulate the price of milk to ensure the lower price and the supply of milk in the market, while, he overlooks an important problem that the increase of the price just demonstrates that the rise supply of milk. If taking any measures to decline the price, the market would lose the present resource of dairy farms, that straight leads to the insufficient supply of milk.
Anyway, the letter seems rational since it aims to ensure the lower price of milk and the sufficient supply to the consumers. However, the arguer fails to provide more information to validate its reasons. To solidified the argument, the arguer should rule out any possibilities just as the above mentioned that would determine the arguer’s claim
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