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发表于 2008-8-5 23:19:21 |显示全部楼层

题目：ARGUMENT4 - The following was posted on an Internet real estate discussion site.

"Of the two leading real estate firms in our town-Adams Realty and Fitch Realty-Adams is clearly superior. Adams has 40 real estate agents. In contrast, Fitch has 25, many of whom work only part-time. Moreover, Adams' revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch, and included home sales that averaged $168,000, compared to Fitch's $144,000. Homes listed with Adams sell faster as well: ten years ago, I listed my home with Fitch and it took more than four months to sell; last year, when I sold another home, I listed it with Adams, and it took only one month. Thus, if you want to sell your home quickly and at a good price, you should use Adams."
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Comparing with the Fitch Realty (FR), the author of this argument believes Adam Realty (AR) is better. And the author also suggests us use AR if we want to sell our home quickly. Although the entirely argument seems to be compelling, I find some logical problems in it.

First, the author of this argument ignores a big premise: what kinds of home do I have if I want to sell it? We all know there are enormously different between a house and a flat. If AR only sells the house while FR only sells the flat and I have a flat to sell, which one do I choose? Obviously I will choose the after, because FR sells the flat. So no matter how I want to sell my home quickly and at a good price, I can only choose FR.

Even if both of them can sell all kinds of homes, the author should not believe that AR can sell faster than FR. To support his/her conclusion, the author tells us that FR sold a home more than four months ten years ago while AR only used one month last year. But I still cannot draw any conclusion from his/her words that AR can sell faster than FR. Ten years is such a long time that the entire society may be changed. It is highly possible that ten years ago most of the people were too poor to by a house, they can only rent a home; but since last year because of the economic raising, a lot of people can afford a house so it took only one month to sell a home. Or perhaps FR can sell a house only in a week last year. Without any additional details and examples, the author cannot convince me that AR sells faster than FR.

Thirdly, the author implies AR can sells our home at a good price by giving us some data: AR's revenue last year was twice as high as that of Fitch and AR's home sales that averaged $168,000 and FR's $144,000. But these numbers still cannot convince me the AR sells a higher price than FR because it is entirely possible that AR sells other kinds of houses like the business building so they earn more. Also the average price can also be unreasonable for the average price is the one "included home sales" but not only "home sales", so maybe AR's home sales averaged lower than FR's.

In addition, I cannot find any relationship between the numbers of real estate agents and the speed or the price they can sell. In my opinion, if the workers in FR are better than those in AR and even have more experience and so on, FR would sell home more quickly and in a higher price.

In sum, the author try to convince us use AR to sell home, but he/she ignores the things I roll out above. So I believe the author will change or reconsider his/her mind after reading my argument.