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ARGUMENT165
The following appeared in a business magazine.

"As a result of numerous consumer complaints of dizziness and nausea, Promofoods requested that eight million cans of tuna be returned for testing last year. Promofoods concluded that the cans did not, after all, contain chemicals that posed a health risk. This conclusion is based on the fact that the chemists from Promofoods tested samples of the recalled cans and found that, of the eight chemicals most commonly blamed for causing symptoms of dizziness and nausea, five were not found in any of the tested cans. The chemists did find that the three remaining suspected chemicals are naturally found in all other kinds of canned foods."

提纲：
A: The information of the samples chosen by the chemists to conduct test remains vague.
B: The argument fails to account for the possibility that the high/excessive level of the three remaining chemicals will pose health risk to people.
C: Promofoods’s assertion that the cans did not contain chemicals posing a health risk based on an assumption that chemicals besides the eight chemicals that are most commonly blamed for causing symptoms of dizziness and nausea have no threat to people’s health, which is not necessarily the case.



ISSUE 233
The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a company that builds shopping malls throughout the country.

"The surface of a section of Route 101, paved two years ago by McAdam Road Builders, is now badly cracked and marred by dangerous potholes. In another part of the state, a section of Route 66, paved by Appian Roadways more than four years ago, is still in good condition. Appian Roadways has recently purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery, and it has hired a new quality-control manager. Because of its superior work and commitment to quality, we should contract with Appian Roadways rather than McAdam Road Builders to construct the access roads for all our new shopping malls."

提纲：
A: The vice president fails to take account of the possibility that the section of Route 66 paved by Appian Roadways has been restored during the four years.
B: The arguer doesn’t consider that there may be other factors that influence the conditions of the road, and these factors are different between the two routes.
C: The argument doesn’t provide sufficient evidence that state-of-the-art paving machinery and the new quality-control manager will certainly serve to the quality to the work done by Appinan Roadways.
D: 1.Commitment to quality doesn’t guarantee good quality of the work, so that the author’s recommendation seems unconvinced. 2. Even if all of the above mentioned is tenable, the vice president’s recommendation seems hasty that we contact Appian Roadways to construct the access roads for “all” the shopping malls. The vice president has to consider the expense on it.


ARGUMENT239
The following appeared as an editorial in the local newspaper of Dalton.

"When the neighboring town of Williamsville adopted a curfew four months ago that made it illegal for persons under the age of 18 to loiter or idle in public places after 10 p.m., youth crime in Williamsville dropped by 27 percent during curfew hours. In Williamsville's town square, the area where its citizens were once most outraged at the high crime rate, not a single crime has been reported since the curfew was introduced. Therefore, to help reduce its own rising crime rate, the town of Dalton should adopt the same kind of curfew. A curfew that keeps young people at home late at night will surely control juvenile delinquency and protect minors from becoming victims of crime."

提纲：
A: The editorial doesn’t provide clear evidence that the result of crime reduction in Williamsville is due to, at least partly due to the curfew adopted. (Other main reasons +in town square, the crime committed may not be the youth crime+the curfew not implemented)
B: The editorial unfairly assumes that the rising crimes are committed by youth.
C: The argument overlooks the possibility that the adopting of the curfew doesn’t surly entail the good results. (Implementation+the time that crime committed)

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