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严重超时啊,狂汗!!
137.The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper. "At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of recreational activity, even though surveys of the region's residents consistently rank water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be avoiding the river because they think that it is not clean enough. But that situation is about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to clean up Mason River. Therefore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly owned lands along the Mason River." 提纲
1. 没有证明居民不来M河娱乐的原因是河水质量的问题。有可能其他方面的原因。另外投诉不代表大众的意见
2. 计划澄清河水的结果是不可预见的。
3. 公用土地是否需要改善没有证明。
In this argument, the author enthusiastically advocated that the agency should to clean up Mason River, in that matter, the mason city residents would like to do water sports on this river. And the M city need to increase its budget for improvement to the publicly owned lands along the m river. The argument is well presented, but is not well-reasoned. I will discuss each of these questionable facets in turn.
First of all, the author fails to consider other possible alternatives may lead the m residents to seldom use the nearby M river for any kind of recreational activity. Such alternatives may include that this river is not appropriate to do water sports at all, or people must pay money to play on this river or there is another river nearby this city, which is cleaner and convenience for residents to play. It is possible that M river is too deep and its flows too fast that the residents did not think it is a safe river to do water sport. In this matter, even the quality of the water of the river is improved by clean up M river, the residents will not to do water sport on this river. Or perhaps this river changed the residents a lot for play on it, so the residents seldom use it for any kind of recreation activity. It is also possible that M river is not the unique one in this city; by comparison, residents prefer to enjoy entertainment in other river. In such cases, the fact that residents seldom use M river for any kind of recreation activities is nothing with the quality of this river. Thus the plan of clean up M river is not a effective way to capture the interest of residents to play in this river.
Secondly, the mere fact the there have been complaints about the quality of the water in this river lends no support to this conclusion. It is possible that these complaints are not representative enough to reflect the willing of masses. We are not informed that how many people have complained about the quality of this river, if the number of complaints was quite small, the conclusion would be highly susceptible. In addition, the author stated that the agency has announced a plan to clean up the river. However, whether this plan will be implanted effectively and efficiently is unsusceptible. There is no evidence presented that the agency has any idea of how to clean up the river.
Finally, the author also fails to improve the public lands along M river need to improve. Even assuming that recreational use of the river is likely to increase, whether the public lands along this river is nor appropriate for recreation is open to doubt as the author have not informed us the condition. It is highly possible that these land were wonderful for entertainments ground. Furthermore, any increase in improve the lands have to be able to overcome huge increase in the budget of agency. There is no support offered to show that this would be the case.
In sum, this argument is based on mere speculation with absolutely no cause and effect evidence presented to show that residents seldom use M river for recreation is responsible for the quality of the water in this river. No convincing evidence is offered that the agency should clean up the river. Furthermore, there is no support for the idea that the public lands along the river should be improved.
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