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题目：

The following was written as a part of an application for a small-business loan by a group of developers in the city of Monroe.

"A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently， the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away； thus， the proposed new jazz club in Monroe， the C-Note， would have the local market all to itself. Plus， jazz is extremely popular in Monroe： over 100，000 people attended Monroe's annual jazz festival last summer； several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe； and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is 'Jazz Nightly，' which airs every weeknight at 7 P.M. Finally， a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1，000 per year on jazz entertainment."

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

中文翻译：

在Monroe 建立爵士乐俱乐部将会是非常盈利的产业。当前，最近的爵士俱乐部也在65 英里以外；因此，我们筹建的俱乐部C Note 将会占有全部的本地市场。而且，爵士乐在Monroe 非常流行：去年夏天10 万多人参加了Monroe 的爵士音乐节，若干知名爵士音乐家居住在Monroe，Monroe 获评价最高的广播节目是平时每天播出的Jazz Nightly.最后，一项全国性研究表明典型的爵士爱好者每年花费近1000 元用于爵士娱乐。

题目：Argument242 The following appeared as an editorial in the student newspaper of Groveton College.

To combat the recently reported dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students， these institutions should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton‘s， which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton‘s honor code replaced an old-fashioned system in which students were closely monitored by teachers and an average of thirty cases of cheating per year were reported. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place， students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later， this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover， in a recent survey conducted by the Groveton honor council， a majority of students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without.

翻译

为解决最近上报的大学生作弊现象显著增加的问题，大学和学院应该采取和Groveton学院类似的诚信制度，该制度要求学生同意在学业中不作弊，并且当他们怀疑别人作弊的时候通知老师。Groveton的诚信知道代替了原有的学生被老师严密监视的老体制，在老体制中平均每年有30起作弊被上报。该制度被证明成功的多：在它实施的第一年，学生上报了21起作弊;五年后，这一数值下降到了14起。而且，在最近一次由Groveton诚信委员会组织的调查中，大部分学生说有了诚信制度他们更加不太可能作弊。

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逻辑思路

结论： 大家应该采用G的诚信制度

论据一：老制度的劣势

论据二：新制度的优势

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The following appeared in a health magazine.

"The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore， there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran， a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia， a food that few of the most healthy citizens regularly eat."

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

中文翻译：

Forsythe的居选择了更健康的生活方式。他们对于最近一项调查的回答显示，他们的饮食习惯比十年前更加贴近政府的营养建议。而且，含有kiran的食品销量增长了四倍，在一次科学研究中发现kiran是一种能够降低胆固醇水平的物质。这种趋势同样也被sulia的销量下降所证实，sulia是那些最健康的居极少经常食用的食品。

The following appeared in a health newsletter.

"A ten-year nationwide study of the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while bicycling indicates that ten years ago， approximately 35 percent of all bicyclists reported wearing helmets， whereas today that number is nearly 80 percent. Another study， however， suggests that during the same ten-year period， the number of bicycle-related accidents has increased 200 percent. These results demonstrate that bicyclists feel safer because they are wearing helmets， and they take more risks as a result. Thus， to reduce the number of serious injuries from bicycle accidents， the government should concentrate more on educating people about bicycle safety and less on encouraging or requiring bicyclists to wear helmets."

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

中文翻译：

一项为期十年的对于在骑自行车时戴头盔的作用的研究显示，10年前，所有骑车人中大约有35%报告说他们戴头盔，现在这个比例接近80%.然而另外一项调查显示在相同的十年期间，因骑车引起的事故数量增加了200%.这些结果说明骑车人因为戴着头盔而感到更安全，因而导致他们面临更大的危险。因此，为减少自行车事故中严重伤害的数量，政府应该更多地对人们加强自行车安全的教育，并提供鼓励或要求骑车人戴头盔的课程...

Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument.

1.The following appeared in a newsletter offering advice to investors.

"Over 80 percent of the respondents to a recent survey indicated a desire to reduce their intake of foods containing fats and cholesterol, and today low-fat products abound in many food stores. Since many of the food products currently marketed by Old Dairy Industries are high in fat and cholesterol, the company's sales are likely to diminish greatly and their profits will no doubt decrease. We therefore advise Old Dairy stockholders to sell their shares and other investors not to purchase stock in this company."

2.The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper from a citizen of the state of Impecunious.

"Two years ago our neighboring state, Lucria, began a state lottery to supplement tax revenues for education and public health. Today, Lucria spends more per pupil than we do, and Lucria' s public health program treats far more people than our state's program does. If we were to establish a state lottery like the one in Lucria, the profits could be used to improve our educational system and public health program. The new lottery would doubtless be successful, because a survey conducted in our capital city concludes that citizens of Impecunious already spend an average of $50 per...

"Five years ago, at a time when we had difficulties in obtaining reliable supplies of high-quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our deluxe alpaca overcoats. Now that we have a new fabric supplier, we should resume production. This coat should sell very well: since we have not offered an alpaca overcoat for five years and since our major competitor no longer makes an alpaca overcoat, there will be pent-up customer demand. Also, since the price of most types of clothing has risen in each of the past five years, customers should be willing to pay significantly higher prices for alpaca overcoats than they did five years ago, and our company profits will increase."

A、五年前人们喜欢穿A外套，并不表示现在人们还会穿A外套。这五年人们的穿衣喜好会改变，或者已习惯去其他外套。竞争者不生产可能从侧面说明该外套已不再受欢迎。

B、其他面料涨价了，A面料不一定涨。如果A面料也涨了，消费者也未必愿意付更高的钱购买A外套。

C、即使消费者愿意花费更高的价钱购买A外套，该公司也未必能够盈利。经济学常识，利润等于营业额减去成本。生产成本，5年为在市面上出现，需要很大的成本来建立品牌。

22.The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that builds and sells new homes in Steel City.

"Over the past five years, the population of Steel City has increased by more than 20 percent, and family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average. Nationwide, sales of houses priced above $150,000 have increased more than have sales of low...