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Arguement17 高频题
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The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Walnut Grove town newspaper.
“Walnut Grove’s town council has advocated switching form EZ Disposal (which has had the contract fro trash collection services in Walnut Grove fort eh past ten years) to ABC Waste, because EZ recently raised its monthly fee from $2,000 to $2,500 a month, whereas ABC’s fee is still $2,000. but the town council is mistaken; we should continue using EZ. EZ collects trash twice a week, while ABC collects only once. Moreover, EZ-which, like ABC, currently has a fleet of 20 trucks-has ordered additional trucks. Finally, EZ provides exceptional service: 80 percent of respondents to last year’s town survey agreed that they were “satisfied” with EZ’s performance.”
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Before continually adopting EZ Disposal as the trash collector for the town of Walnut Grove, the reasoning of the argument should be closely scrutinized at other perspectives. The arguer alleges that EZ will provide better service for the people in the town however failing to examine other alternatives while examining his position that may weakens the argument.

First of all, from the survey quoted in the argument we find no sign of such procedures for random sampling, and have good reason to doubt if the sample is representative enough to reflect the general attitudes of all citizens in the town as a whole. We know little about the survey except the ideas of 80 percent of respondents. Nevertheless, there is no accurate information about the backgrounds of the survey subjects: whether they are randomly selected, how many percentage the respondents occupy the total survey subjects, their genders, their ages and living conditions. In fact, many factors can alter the final conclusion of the survey, such as the respondents only occupy small portion of the survey subjects, most of the respondents are young people who rarely concern about the quality of trash collection and give a casual response to the survey which surely lead to an inaccurate conclusion that citizens of the town consider the service of EZ as exceptional.

Another condition neglected by the arguer is that he fails to provide any concrete evidence about whether the citizens care more about the frequency of the collection service than about the amount of money charged on the service. It is possible that citizen pay much more attention to the money they are charged on the service, thus the fact that the $2500 a month paid to EZ is more than $2000 a month for ABC Waste definitely has a negative effect on their preference in selecting the trash collector. They may shift to the cheaper collector of ABC while overlooking the frequency of two times a week provided by EZ.

Even granted that the citizens are satisfied with the service provided by EZ last year, it does not necessarily mean that citizens will be not satisfied with the service from ABC. For in the past ten years, EZ has served as the only company to collect the trash that will transfer the citizens with knowledge that service from EZ is the standard and excellent since there is no any other company available for them to conduct comparison. It is entirely possible that citizens will praise the service from ABC while criticizing EZ if they gave ABC an opportunity to serve them.

The arguer should take a third possibility into consideration the fact EZ has ordered additional trucks lends little support to the conclusion that EZ perform very well in its service. Perhaps, the additional trucks are not used to serve the citizens in the town of Walnut Grove but its other customers in other regions. In addition, according to the information from the arguer, the ABC also has a fleet of 20 trucks and introduces additional trucks for collecting tracks which may lead to the improvement of its service quality in ABC, consequently leading to the possible result that the service quality provided by ABC is superior to that of EZ.

In conclusion, under the circumstance that all this possibilities above-mentioned all remain omitted by the arguer when the arguer analyzes his position, it is hard for us to judge the utility of the arguer’s allege. To bolster the argument in accuracy and cogency, the arguer should evaluate all the facts and conditions that might undermine the argument and a more considerate work upon the performance of EZ is needed as well. (606 words)

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