argument47 FLY AW作文组第13次作业（570字）

夜一UID: 2130338

Argument47  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：63分23秒     320 words
从2006年5月15日11时8分到2006年5月15日12时63分
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Scientists studying historical weather patterns have discovered that in the mid-sixth century, Earth suddenly became significantly cooler. Although few historical records survive from that time, some accounts found both in Asia and Europe mention a dimming of the sun and extremely cold temperatures. Either a huge volcanic eruption or a large meteorite colliding with Earth could have created a large dust cloud throughout Earth's atmosphere that would have been capable of blocking enough sunlight to lower global temperatures significantly. A large meteorite collision, however, would probably create a sudden bright flash of light, and no extant historical records of the time mention such a flash. Some surviving Asian historical records of the time, however, mention a loud boom that would be consistent with a volcanic eruption. Therefore, the cooling was probably caused by a volcanic eruption.
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The argument asserts that the cooling of the Earth in the mid-sixth century was probably cause by a volcanic eruption. To support this conclusion, the argument demonstrates some relative clues, including a dimming of the sun, a loud boom, and the absence of a sudden bright flash, according to some surviving historical records. However, the current information, which is provided by the argument, cannot powerfully back up the conclusion.

First of all, no evidence indicates that the cooling is mainly caused by the dimming of the sun. Though some accounts found in Asia and Europe mention a dimming of the sun and extremely cold temperatures, the global situation in the mid-sixth century is not clear, since few historical records survive from that time. The sunlight might have been brighter in other areas, and the extremely cold temperatures in Asia and Europe could have been induced by other factors, such as the internal variability of the Earth, the change of greenhouse gases, and the characteristics of the land surface. All can be inferred from those historical records is that the dimming of the sun might have been a reason of the extremely cold temperatures in Asia and Europe, but whether the dimming is a main cause of the global cooling still remains a question.

Besides, even if the cooling of the Earth is significantly influenced by the dimming of the sun, it is unreasonable to assume that the dimming of the sun in Asia and Europe was induced by a large dust cloud. Although a large dust cloud throughout Earth's atmosphere that would have been capable of blocking enough sunlight to lower global temperatures significantly, no additional information mentions such a dust cloud, and the dimming of the sun could have been caused by other events, for example, the internal alternation of the sun. Thus it is too arbitrary to attribute the dimming of the sun to a large dust cloud, which might have been caused by a huge volcanic eruption or a large meteorite colliding with Earth.

Furthermore, even if the dimming of the sun was related to a large dust cloud, it is uncertain that the dust cloud was exactly caused by a volcanic eruption. Although no extant historical records of the time mention a sudden bright flash of light, which would probably be created by a large meteorite collision, the possibility of the meteorite collision, which can also cause a large dust cloud, cannot be ignored, since few records survive today. Moreover, though some surviving Asia historical records mention a loud boom that would be consistent with a volcanic eruption, a large meteorite collision would also induce such a loud boom. Even if the boom was exactly caused by a volcanic eruption, no evidence indicates that the eruption is powerful enough to create a dust cloud throughout the global atmosphere. Additionally, the dust cloud could have been cause by other factors except an eruption or a collision, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and dust storms. Therefore, it is unwise to claim that the large dust cloud was induced by a large volcanic eruption.

In conclusion, the causes of the global cooling in the mid-sixth century are still unknown, and neither the happening of a large dust cloud nor the existence of a large volcanic eruption can be attested. As a result, the conclusion of the argument that the cooling was caused by a volcanic eruption is unverified and unreasonable.

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Argument204  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：0分2秒     0 words
从2006年5月15日14时39分到2006年5月15日14时0分
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The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a farming publication.
'With continuing publicity about the need for healthful diets, and with new research about the harmful effects of eating too much sugar, nationwide demand for sugar will no doubt decline. Therefore, farmers in our state should use the land on which they currently grow sugar cane to grow peanuts, a food that is rich in protein and low in sugar. Farmers in the neighboring country of Palin greatly increased their production of peanuts last year, and their total revenues from that crop were quite high.'
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The letter recommends that farmers in their state should use the land on which they currently grow sugar cane to grow peanuts. To support this recommendation, the letter claims that nationwide demand for sugar will decline, and demonstrates the quite high revenues from peanuts in the neighboring country of Palin last year. However, neither the former nor the latter can back up the letter’s conclusion.

1.        The letter’s claim that nationwide demand for sugar will decline is unreasonable. Though eating too much sugar will cause healthy problems, sugar is an essential necessity of human daily life. No evidence indicates that the requirement of sugar is declining.
2.        Though the revenues from peanuts were quite high in Palin last year, whether growing peanuts in their state will improve revenues in the following years remains a question. Their state is more or less different from the neighboring country of Palin. The soil in their state may not fit the growth of peanuts. Moreover, no additional information shows that the demand for peanuts will increase.

In conclusion, it is unverified to claim that the demand for sugar will decline and growing peanuts can provide their states with high profits.

夜一UID: 2130338

觉得这篇挺难的，好不容易才写出中文的来，又好不容易才生硬的翻译成英文。。
没有办法呢，我对外国的艺术并不怎么了解，比较懂得就只有中国古代绘画的部分，现代的话就只懂漫画这部分了。。

Issue131  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：0分3秒     0 words
从2006年5月15日15时0分到2006年5月15日15时0分
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The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society.
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Key words:
  Otherwise: In other respects
Idea: Something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity
Impulse: A sudden wish or urge that prompts an unpremeditated act or feeling; abrupt inclination
Question:
1.        What are the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society?
2.        How do arts reveal them?
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艺术可以显示出社会的其他方面的隐藏的思想与欲望，包括在哲学方面，政治方面，与文化方面。

1.        在哲学方面，艺术会展示人们对世界的理解。以中国的水墨山水画为例，北宋范宽的《蹊山行旅图》，描绘高大庄严的山脉，与行走于其中的旅人形成鲜明的对比，展现出大自然的神圣与人类的渺小，一种崇尚自然的人生哲学。元朝倪赞则描绘孤立于水中的亭台，表现其追求超然于缥缈的心境。清初四王的作品富有章法，表现出作者对严谨的社会秩序的赞同。
2.        在政治方面，艺术能表达潜藏于人们心中的感情。以中国的文人画为例，令人印象最为深刻的莫过于清初文人所作的无根兰草，因为受到异族的统治与迫害，无法用言语表达的文人们所表达出的悲痛与气节。
3.        在文化方面，艺术能展现出人们的希望与追求。在历史中，欧洲的文艺复兴就是最好的例子，人们对现实萧条的文化的不满，表现为了对古典艺术的崇尚与研究。而现今的动漫杂志，流行音乐，和网络小说，则表现了当今社会自由与多元的文化形式。

The arts reveal the otherwise hidden philosophical, political, and cultural ideas and impulses of a society.

1.        The arts demonstrate people’s philosophical understandings of the contemporary world, including what have not been documented in historical records. Take ancient Chinese landscape paintings for example. Some works describe the huge and endless mountains, contrasting with travelers walking though the narrow paths, to exhibit the greatness of natural and the insignificance of human beings, and explain the appreciation of natural as the painters’ living philosophy. Some works depict small cabins surrounded by waters, appearing wonderful but unavailable, to express the painters’ pursuance of uncommonness and unreality. Some works are well ordered, showing the painters’ respect of a smoothly operating society.
2.        The arts expose people’s political thoughts and concepts, including what cannot be spoken and written directly. The Chinese paintings of orchids without roots appeared in the times when people were cruelly governed by aggressive races and were not allowed to express their resistance. These works symbolize the painters’ loyalty to their own nations by orchids, and explain their refusal to the existing government by the absence of roots. In the years of wars, painters, musicians, poets, and writers spread their ideas of peace by their works, which cannot be spoken loudly in front of the armies and governments.
3.        The arts express people’s wishes and pursuance in culture, including what have not been defined clearly. People’s adoration of classical arts can reveal their complaints of the current society. The development of comic books, pop music, and online literature signs the current free and active human culture.

flycc28UID: 2164453

又写了这么多 嘿嘿... 我下次真得加字数了

我发现我写的内容基本上集中在LZ的第四段，而关于global cooling=a dimming of the sun
然后the dimming=a large dust cloud这两点的批驳，我不知道该不该作为重点。题目中就说Although few historical records survive from that time, some accounts found both in Asia and Europe mention a dimming of the sun and extremely cold temperatures，我甚至都感觉这句话有点孤立......

kito9695UID: 209685

厄，夜一要考AW了阿~
常在托版看到你得说~
加油~！

夜一UID: 2130338

谢谢：）

另外，to flycc28，不要一味的加字数亚，我最近就是因为总是写得太多很头疼，a的话我始终是要控制在400以内的，不然30分钟绝对写不完

kito9695UID: 209685

原帖由 夜一 于 2006-6-16 12:13 发表
谢谢：）

另外，to flycc28，不要一味的加字数亚，我最近就是因为总是写得太多很头疼，a的话我始终是要控制在400以内的，不然30分钟绝对写不完

什么时候考？现在就限时？
A是可以在30分钟写到500以上的，字多一点儿可以论证的更充分些

夜一UID: 2130338

Argument127  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：0分2秒     0 words
从2006年5月16日15时43分到2006年5月16日15时0分
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The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.
'In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits.'
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The vice president recommends that Climpson Industries should implement electronic monitoring of employees’ Internet use from their workstations in order to improve the employees’ productivity. He claims that by installing software to detect Internet use, as well as identifying and punishing Internet users, they can prevent employees’ from wasting time, foster a better work ethic, and improve the overall profits. However, no evidence indicates that these targets are reachable.

1.        Whether such policies can reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities remains a question. The vice president argues that the electronic monitoring can prevent employees from wasting time on Internet shopping and games. However, no information demonstrates that their employees are not interested in offline entertainment, such as offline computer games.
2.        No additional information shows that such policies can foster s better work ethic and improve employees’ productivity at Climpson. Being monitored by their company, employees are not likely to work pleasantly. Though they may not resist the company directly, they are probably not willing to increase work efficiency. Moreover, Internet is not only a kind of entertainment, but also a convenient tool to gather useful information and solve working problems quickly and correctly. Without this perfect implement, employees are no longer able to deal with such problems efficiently, and their productivity will be reduced in this way.

In conclusion, the vice president’s recommendation is not convincing enough for Climpson’s president to adopt it.

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Argument20  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：0分2秒     0 words
从2006年5月16日16时20分到2006年5月16日16时0分
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The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
'The population of Balmer Island increases to 100,000 duing the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped and bicycle rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council is sure to attain the 50 percent reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year in the neighboring island of Torseau, when Torseau's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals.'
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The letter recommends that the Balmer town council should limit the number of rentals in order to reduce the accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians. To support this conclusion, the letter illustrates similar policies conducted by Torseau last year. However the recommendation of the letter is not convincing enough for the editor to adopt it.

1.        There is no clear relationship between the reduction of moped accidents in the neighboring island Torseau and the limits on moped rentals, though the former happened after the conduction of the latter. There might have been other contemporary activities which have greatly reduced the rate of moped accidents, such as the improvement of traffic systems the increase of safety awareness. Without carefully examining the main causes of the reduction of moped accidents, it is unreasonable to attribute this situation to the limits on moped rentals completely.
2.        Even if the limits on moped rentals have helped reduce moped accidents in Torseau, no additional information indicates that such policies will solve the problem of Balmer. When the population of Balmer increases to 100,000 during the summer, the relatively tiny reduction of moped rentals, that is, twenty mopeds of each of the six companies per day, is unlikely to induce significant changes of the current situation. Moreover, if most people in Balmer have their own mopeds, and the moped accidents mostly involve purchased mopeds, the limits on moped rentals will have little sense.

In conclusion, the recommendation of the letter cannot be accepted without detailed studies of the policies conducted in Torseau lat year which have exactly reduced moped accidents, and the situation of Balmer where the problem is currently required to be solved.

flycc28UID: 2164453

原帖由 kito9695 于 2006-6-16 12:25 发表


什么时候考？现在就限时？
A是可以在30分钟写到500以上的，字多一点儿可以论证的更充分些

大名鼎鼎Kito来了丫....你原来的作文组让偶仰慕好久 呵呵

字数上的说法是A400＋ I500＋但是偶现在都还差100了 唉  ...

大家救救吧...

夜一UID: 2130338

Issue72  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：0分2秒     0 words
从2006年5月16日21时31分到2006年5月16日21时0分
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One can best understand the most important characteristics of a society by studying its major cities.
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虽然主要城市并不能囊括一个社会的方方面面，但是作为大量人群的居住地，作为政治、经济和文化的中心，它们能展现出这个社会的最重要的特点和特征。
1．        主要城市是一个社会中政治体系最完备的地方，可以有效地反映出一个社会的政治运行方式、社会阶级关系以及社会的稳定性。
2．        主要城市是经济活动的中心和枢纽，研究其经济状态与经济行为可以大体上看出一个社会的经济发展水平，包括经济的繁荣与否，经济体制的完备与否，贫富差距的悬殊与否。
3．        主要城市也是文化的中心，可以反映出一个社会教育的普及情况，科学的研究水平，以及文化在人们生活中占有的比重。

夜一UID: 2130338

虽然多写是有好处，但是以我的打字速度，觉得a还是不要超过400的好，i也不要超过500的好。。。这样差不多能写完。。