gre写作模板：GRE作文范文大全（107）
Even if the speaker's advice were modified as indicated above, the advice to exercise would
still be logically unsound. If a person with sleep apnea is too tired to exercise as a result, then
simply advising that person to exercise begs the question: What should the person do to
eliminate the cause of the tiredness? Thus the speaker should determine the cause of sleep
apnea and modify the advice so that it targets that cause. Of course, ifit turns out that weight
gain is one cause of snoring and sleep apnea, then the speaker's advice that snorers should
try to eat less would have considerable merit. Yet, without any evidence that this is the case,
the speaker's advice might be at least partially ineffective in counteracting a snorer's tendency
to gain weight.
In sum, the speaker's advice for "any" snorer is ill-conceived and poorly supported. To lend
credibility to this advice the speaker should provide evidence that the recently collected data
reflect the general population. To better assess the argument it would be useful to know all the
possible causes of snoring and of sleep apnea.
Argument 34
The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.
"The librarians in our town's school system have reported that the number of trips that our
students make to their school library on a voluntary basis has decreased significantly in recent
years. For example, the average seventh-grade student visited the school library five times
last year, but four of those visits were part of required classroom activities. This shows that our
students are reading less than in the past. To address this problem, our town needs to improve
the atmosphere of the libraries so that they will be comfortable places in which to work. If
students view the libraries as uncomfortable, then they are unlikely to want to spend much time
there."
In this editorial the author claims that the town's students are reading less, and that by
improving the atmosphere in the town's school libraries students would visit their school library
more frequently and, in turn, would read more. To support these claims the author points out
that the number of annual visits students make to their school library, on average, has
decreased significantly in recent years. Specifically, the average seventh grader paid five such
visits last year, four of which were required for classes. Close inspection of the evidence
reveals, however, that it lends little credible support for the proposed course of action.
First, the author unfairly assumes that since the number of library visits per student is
declining the amount of reading on the part of students must also be declining. This poor
assumption overlooks the possibility that students are doing more reading or checking out
more reading materials during each library visit. It also ignores the possibility that more and
more students are obtaining reading material elsewhere--for example, from public libraries or
from the Internet. Without considering and ruling out these possibilities, the author cannot
justifiably conclude that students are reading less merely because they are visiting their school
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