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发表于 2007-2-27 11:21:54
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我是前些天才开始的,以前一直在考研,准备的比较仓促,逻辑也有点乱,希望大家多多指点。谢谢。
67.The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a newspaper serving
the villages of Castorville and Polluxton.
"Both the villages of Castorville and Polluxton have experienced sharp
declines in the numbers of residents who pay property taxes. To save money
and improve service, the two villages recently merged their once separate
garbage collection departments into a single department located in
Castorville, and the new department has reported few complaints about its
service. Last year the library in Polluxton had 20 percent fewer users
than during the previous year. It follows that we should now further
economize and improve service, as we did with garbage collection, by
closing the library in Polluxton and using the library in Castorville to
serve both villages."
Castorville和Polluxton两个村镇都经历了地产税纳税居民数量的下降。为节省开支并提高服务质量,两个村镇最近合并了它们一度独立的垃圾收集部门,成立了座落于Castorville的单一部门,新部门所上报的关于其服务的投诉很少。去年Polluxton的图书馆使用者比前一年减少20%。这表明我们现在应该象我们在垃圾收集方面所作的一样进一步经济化和提高服务,通过关闭Polluxton的图书馆和使用Castorville的图书馆来为两个村镇提供服务。
这次时间没限制,是断断续续写出来的。。
In this argument,the arguer concludes that merged two libraries from Polluxton and Castorville into one to serve both villages in order to save money and improve service.the author points out that the numbers of library in Polluxton had declined by 20 percent compare to last year. To support this conclusion,the arguer cites the fact that the two villages merged their garbage collection departments into a single one in Castorville attain the goal to save money and expense.However,The argument suffers from several logical fallacies.
First of all,the aruger commits a fallacy of hasty generaliztion.Even if it's effective merge two garbadge collection of Ca and PO's will save money and improve service for both of them.which is ,of course,unwarranted assumption,it does not follow that combined two libraries into one share also economize and improve service for Ca and Po's villages.As we know,To save money and improve service relies on serveral factors other than depends on combination.For instance,propaganda keeping clean envrinment is helpful for villagers health and supply more fresh air under blue sky for the sake of ehancing villagers' realization.or pay much attention to garbadge recycle constantly.all of which are ignored by the arguer.Besides,the arguer does not provide any information concerning how do they save money and improve service.Therefore,there is no evidence that it's reasonable to economize and improve service for closing the library in Polluxton and using the library in Castorville to serve both villages.
In the second place,the argument is based on false analogy,the arguer simply assumes that merged two garbadge collection departments of Po's and Ca's a into single one was located in Ca would save money and improve service.However,the author provide no evidence that single garbage collection would really economize and enhance service,Perhaps,the expense is much more than before,due to the distance between two villages have long way to go,especially for Po villagers inconvinently to discard trash than before,in other words,it will spend much time on garbage collection.Therefore,they decide to close the library from Po and share with the same library with Ca effective to save money and improve service,there is no guarantee that it will work just as well for combining two libraries into one for both villages of Ca and Po.
In the third place,the arguer claim that Both the villages of Castorville and Polluxton have experienced sharp declines in the numbers of residents who pay property taxes.the author provide no evidence that It does mean the total numbers of taxes from both villages were declined,Perhaps,move in the opposite direction,the whole taxes even rised even if the numbers of residents who pay property has declined,Perhaps,every resident hand in more taxes than before.So we need more clear information about the ways of saving money and improving serice.
In conclusion,the arguer fails to establish causal relationship between merged two garbage collection departments into single one to save money and improve service in terms of sharing one library for Polluxton and Castorville. To strengthen the argument,the arguer would have to provide evidence that one garbage collection department was effective and one library share really save money.To better evaluate the argument,we would need more information about villager's exact attitudes,actions and the distance bewteen two villages.
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