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TOPIC: ARGUMENT51 - The following appeared in a medical newsletter.

"Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment."
WORDS: 447          TIME: 00:30:00          DATE: 2008-2-17 下午 03:37:07

The author concluded that all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment. To support his conclusion, the author cited the fact of controls and a hypothesis which seemed proved by the controls. However, after close scrutiny of the argument, I find some logic flaws which might have lead to an opposite conclusion of the author's.

An threshold problem is the hypothesis--that the antibiotic plays a vital role in the faster healing of secondary infections--which seemed proved by the groups cited by the author. This is certainly not the case in three respects.

Firstly, the results of the controls could not prove that it is the antibiotics that accelerate the healing speed. As mentioned above, the group of people who are given sugar pills still recuperated. Although they are told that the medicine are antibiotics, it is actually not. THus, we may assume that other factors--such like their psychological influence--that determine the healing. And the faster speed of recuperation are due to other reasons, as discussed below.

Secondly, we are not told the backgrounds of the two groups. If we assume that the first group are all younger and stronger man, who exercise more and have more powerful health system; on the contrary, the other group are constituted of the elderly or the ones who are easy to be ill, then the faster speed of recuperation may be attribute to the their health base differences.

Thirdly, the author fails to take into account the doctors.  The doctor of the first group is the one specializing in sports medicine. Thus, he might take some other measures to help healing, like suggesting the patients to take proper amount of sports and the forbidden notices on diets.  While the doctor of the second group is just a general physician, who might lack such experiences or even make wrong-headed advices to the patients which might boggle down their treatment.

Thus, without other facts to rule out the influence from the differences in doctors and the patients, the author could not convince me that it is the antibiotic that makes the faster speed of recuperation.

Even it is the antibiotics that makes the faster speed of recuperation. The author assumes that all patients diagnosed with muscle strain were sure to get the secondary infections. However, the author cited no evidence or fact to support the assumption. Moreover, while considering that the hypothesis are just concerning the patients with severe strain, and all patients include the case about light muscle strain and the mis-diagnosed (misdiagnosis), plus the untold side-affect from antibiotics which may do harm to human, the author's conclusion is sill unconvincing.

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我是学数学的,作文重不重要,对我来说.我就准备十天,作文水平感觉几下面这文章这水平,大家来拍一下谢谢
TOPIC: ISSUE155 - "Contemporary society offers so many ways of learning that reading books is no longer very important."
WORDS: 430          TIME: 00:44:13          DATE: 2008-2-13 21:11:27

           Is reading books unnecessary in the contemporary society?
     I agree with the speaker's broad assertion that it is unnecessary to use the old ways of learning, such as, reading books in our contemporary society. I concede that in the era of advanced technology and social development ,there are many ways for us to choose to get the knowledge. However, the speaker has overestimated the position which reading books which can be regard as one of the most effective ways for our learning had taken. Some compelling reasons and examples that are contradicted with the speaker's views will be represented  in many aspects in today's society.
            Admittedly, with the development of technology and social society, the technology innovation bring us the high efficiency of work and the living standard of our life, especially some innovation for the ways of learning .we cannot denying that the invention of more and more electronic machines bring more convenience to our life, for example ,television ,microwave ,or computer .If you want to use them, what you just to do is push one or two buttons making them running without concerning the working theories of them. Another striking
example is the invention of the computer, increasing the working efficiency of us and with the popularity of the personal computer, many persons ,especially young persons ,surfing the internet, browsing the homepage ,chatting with the others who may be in the promote places. Computer can also be used in the education way for us to do the assignment or searching for the information that we are in need of. A number of softwares which are explored on the platform of PC can be used for the learning of us.
     However, reading books is the chief means for us of learning from ancient time to present. We can suppose that in the ancient time ,without advanced technological and the technoloinnovation to our society, what is the means of learning for our ancestors? Of course, reading books .Only through reading books ,our ancestors had got the unexpected glorify civilization which can be compared with contemporary development. we can consider a number of inventors and scientist ,such as Einstein, Thomas Edison and Newton. In their living periods, I believe that reading books is almost the only way (or doing experiment)for their learning and invention.We can not deny that in today's system for education ,reading books which can be regraded as getting indirect experience of the object can be aptly illustrated the point that reading book have not become out of fashion even though in contemporary society.
     In sum, from what we have discussed above, comparing with the advanced means of learning of today the role which reading books plays in the means for learning cannot be easily replaced even if in contemporary society.

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The author concluded that all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment. To support his conclusion, the author cited the fact of controls and a hypothesis which seemed proved by the controls. However, after close scrutiny of the argument, I find some logic flaws which might have lead to an opposite conclusion of the author's. An threshold problem is the hypothesis--that the antibiotic plays a vital role in the faster healing of secondary infections--which seemed proved by the groups cited by the author. This is certainly not the case in three respects. Firstly, the results of the controls could not prove that it is the antibiotics that accelerate the healing speed. As mentioned above, the group of people who are given sugar pills still recuperated. Although they are told that the medicine are antibiotics, it is actually not. THus, we may assume that other factors--such like their psychological influence--that determine the healing. And the faster speed of recuperation are might also be due to other reasons, as discussed below. Secondly, we are not told the backgrounds of the two groups. If we assume that the first group are all younger and stronger man, who exercise more and have more powerful health system; on the contrary, the other group are constituted of the elderly or the ones who are easy to be ill, then the faster speed of recuperation may be attribute to the their health base differences. Thirdly, the author fails to take into account the doctors.  The doctor of the first group is the one specializing in sports medicine. Thus, he might take some other measures to help healing, like suggesting the patients to take proper amount of sports and the forbidden notices on diets??似乎没有写清楚.  While the doctor of the second group is just a general physician, who might lack such experiences or even make wrong-headed advices to the patients which might boggle down their treatment. Thus, without other facts to rule out the influence from the differences in doctors and the patients, the author could not convince me that it is the antibiotic that makes the faster speed of recuperation. Even it is the antibiotics that makes the faster speed of recuperation，the author assumes that all patients diagnosed with muscle strain were sure to get the secondary infections. However, the author cited no evidence or fact to support the assumption. Moreover, while considering that the hypothesis are just concerning thesome patients with severe strain, and all patients include the case about light muscle strain and the mis-diagnosed (misdiagnosis), plus the untold side-affect from antibiotics which may do harm to human, the author's conclusion is sill unconvincing.

你用the controls来指代这个对照治疗，我没有见过，有这种用法吗？你能不能确定？ 总体写得很不错~