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题目: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."字数:356 用时:00:30:00 日期:2008-2-13 22:28:30In this analysis, citing the result of a experiment of two groups, which indicate that the people who are suffering muscle strain taking antibiotics regularly heal quicker than those who do not, the author reaches the conclusion that the secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. (对题目的理解失误:这个不是题目得出的结论,而是题目开头就提出的假设,题目的结论应该是一个建议:肌肉拉伤用抗生素)While it seems somewhat convincing, a careful examination of this argument reveals it suffers form several critic ( critical) flaws.To begin with, there is no description of how the patients injured and whether they are severe or not.(怎么拉伤的重要么?是否严重重要么?只要是拉伤病人,只要是严重程度两个小组一样就可以了,所以攻击点模糊) In that the conclusion is the connection between the secondary infections and the severe muscle strain, without such description of the patients we cannot conclude that assertion.Secondly, since the patients of the two groups may not injure at the same level, (这个表达确切么?伤在同一个水平上?。。。)the result of the experiment is open to doubt. Without more information, it is entirely possible that the patients in the second group are more severe than the first ones. It is no wondering that their average healing time is much later. What’s more, we do not know that whether the other factors of the two groups are the same such as the foods provided to them at this period of time. (叙述不清楚,食物不同又怎样呢?没说明白对肌肉拉伤治疗的影响啊,这里应说明某些食物对痊愈也是有影响的)Therefore, without taking into account these necessary factors and more evidence to rule out this possibility, we cannot be persuaded that the result is the case. Thirdly, there is a vital hypothesis that the author assume the antibiotics are only directing at preventing the infections and there is no influence at all to the patients' muscles. It is possible that the recuperation is attributed to the fact, which, this medicine has the ingredient that will enhance the patient's muscle’s healing ability, but not because the effecting of preventing the muscle from being infected. Thus, we cannot believe the author's conclusion.(这个攻击点挺新颖,学习中:)To sum up, this argument lacks credibility because the experimental result cited in the analysis cannot lend strong support to what the author asserts. Unless the author provides more evidence to indicate that the experiment is well conducted and all the patients are severe injured, the author's concerning about these issues is grounded.(unground) |