GRE范文及赏析-Argument168-智课网.pdf

智课网 GRE备考资料 GRE 官方写作题库 Argument 168 The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper: Membership in Oak Citys Civic Club, a club whose primary objective is to discuss local issues, should continue to be restricted to people who live in Oak City. People who work in Oak City but who live elsewhere cannot truly understand the business and politics of the city. It is important to restrict membership to city residents because only residents pay city taxes and therefore only residents understand how the money could best be used to improve the city. At any rate, restricting membership in this way is unlikely to disappoint many of the nonresidents employed in Oak City, since neighboring Elm Citys Civic Club has always had an open membership policy, and only twenty-five nonresidents have joined Elm Citys Club in the last ten years. 满分范文赏析 This speaker of the letter recommends that membership in Oak Citys Civic Club, the primary objective of which is to discuss local issues, be limited to local residents only. To support this recommendation, the author claims that since only residents pay local taxes they are the only people who sufficiently understand local business and political issues. The author cites the fact that in the last ten years very few non-residents of Oak City who work in Oak City have joined nearby Elm Citys civic club, which is an open club and so the new regulation is not probable to disappoint. The argument is based on two critically flawed elements. Lets explore them. 【此段结构】 本段采用了标准的 Argument 开头段结构，即：C – E - F 的开头结构，首句概括原文的 C(Conclusion)。接下来的一句话概括了原文为了支持他的结论所引用的 E(Evidence)。最后尾句 中给出开头段到正文段的过渡句，指出原文在逻辑上存在 F(Flaw)。 【此段功能】 本段作为 Argument 开头段，具体功能就在发起攻击。首先，概括原文的结论：推荐 Oak(简 称 O) City’s Civic Club只给当地居民会员权利。接下来分别列举了原文为了支持这个结论引用 的证据：一是因为当地居民交税，所以只有他们才能了解当地的商业和政治；相邻的 Elm （简称 E）City’s Civic Club采用开放会员制导致当地居民很少加入。最后点出原文存在逻辑错 误，引出后面的分析。 To begin with, the letter fails to adequately support