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the total number of employees expected to be laid off exceeds the total number expected to be
hired. If true, this fact would serve to refute the speaker's condusion that employees of major
U.S. corporations should not expect to be laid off.
Secondly, the argument assumes that the companies that expect to hire next year are major
U.S. corporations. However, it is entirely possible that these are the firms that expect layoffs,
while it is smaller companies that expect to hire. Common sense tells me that this is a
reasonable possibility, because the number of small companies greatly exceeds the number of
large U.S. corporations. Moreover, even ifit is the major U.S. corporations that expect to do
most of the hiring next year, it is entirely possible that it is these same companies that expect
to do most of the laying off. Again, common sense informs me that this is entirely possible--that
these employers intend to replace many current employees or job positions with new ones.
Thirdly, the argument rests on the dubious assumption that all conditions relevant to a
company's decision to hire or lay off employees will remain unchanged in the near future.
While this might be the case, it is equally possible that unexpected changes in general
economic conditions will result in more layoffs among major U.S. corporations next year than
these firms now anticipate.
Finally, the argument seems to rely partly on the proliferation of job-finding programs. While
this fact might allay the worries of employees that they will not find new employment, it is
irrelevant to whether these employees should expect to be laid offin the fist place. In fact, it can
even be argued that the proliferation of job-finding programs is evidence of increasing job
attrition, and therefore evidence of that these employees' fears are well founded.
In condusion, the argument is unconvincing as it stands. To strengthen it the author must
provide clear evidence that the number of expected hires exceeds the number of expected
lay-offs, and that major U.S. corporations are the companies planning to hire rather than to lay
off employees.
Argument 72
In the Bayhead Public Library, books that are rarely borrowed continue to take up shelf space
year after year, while people who want to read a recent novel frequently find that the library's
only copy is checked out. Clearly, the library's plan to replace books that are borrowed no more
than once a year with sufficient copies of more recent books will solve this problem. The
protest we have heard since this plan was made public has come from a small, and thus
unrepresentative, group of some thirty people and so should therefore be ignored.
In this argument the speaker supports Bayhead Public Library's plan to replace books that are
borrowed less frequently than once per year with additional copies of recent novels. In support
of this position, the speaker suggests that seldom-borrowed books amount to wasted shelf
space because people who want to read recent novels frequently find the library's only copy
checked out. In further support of this position, the speaker points out that only thirty people
have protested the plan. I find the speaker's position unjustified in several critical respects. 感谢您阅读《GRE作文范文大全（127） 》一文，出国留学网(liuxue86.com)编辑部希望本文能帮助到您。