GRE范文及赏析-Argument15-智课网3.pdfVIP

智课网GRE 备考资料 GRE 官方写作题库Argument 15 The following memorandum is from the business manager of Happy Pancake House restaurants: Recently, butter has been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake House restaurants throughout the southwestern United States. This change, however, has had little impact on our customers. In fact, only about 2 percent of customers have complained, indicating that an average of 98 people out of 100 are happy with the change. Furthermore, many servers have reported that a number of customers who ask for butter do not complain when they are given margarine instead. Clearly, either these customers do not distinguish butter from margarine or they use the term butter to refer to either butter or margarine. Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument. 【满分范文赏析】 The author argues that Happy Pancake House (HPH) customers are unable to distinguish between butter and margarine or they do not care that they are being served margarine instead of butter. To support the argument, the speaker points out that the HPHs southwestern restaurants, which now serve margarine instead of butter, only received a total of 2% consumer complaints. The author indicates that reports from servers show customers asking for butter have not complained when given margarine instead. This argument is unconvincing for several reasons. 【本段结构】 本文采用了标准的 Argument 开头段结构，即 C—A—F 的开头结构。本段首先概括原文的 Conclusion ，之后简要提及原文为支持其结论所引用的一系列Assumption 及细节，最后给出 开头段到正文段的过渡句，指出原文的 Flaw ，即这些Assumption 无法让原文的结论具有说服 力。 【本段功能】 作为 Argument 开头段，本段具体功能就在于发起攻击并概括原文的结论，即 HPH 的顾客无 法区分 Butter 和 Margarine ，或者他们根本就不关心他们得到的是Margarine