劉文勇GRE寫作Argument題庫 Day 132

Day 132 All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School

The following appeared in a letter to the school board in the town of Centerville.

“All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School. In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive, some other instruction is necessary to ensure that these teenagers are safe drivers. Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction. Therefore an effective and mandatory program sponsored by the high school is the only solution to this serious problem.”

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.

五問：

（1）“In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive”和“Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction”是事實，“All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School”是結(jié)論，值得反駁嗎？

（2）在過去兩年間發(fā)生的事情是否在今后還會繼續(xù)發(fā)生？我們能否將已有經(jīng)驗簡單地認定為必定會重復的事實？

（3）盡管有些事故涉及了青少年司機，但是事故一定是由該地區(qū)的青少年司機造成的嗎？是否可能這些司機并非來自 Centerville？是否可能被涉及的青少年并不是司機？是否可能這些事故不是由司機造成，而是由不遵守交通規(guī)則的行人造成的？

（4）抱怨沒有時間教孩子開車的家長占的比例有多大？是否具有代表性？他們所抱怨的是否事實？

（5）原文中提及了兩所駕駛學校，是否兩者收費都很貴？除了學校開設(shè)課程外，是否還有其他解決的方法？你能描述其中的一兩個情形嗎？例如：學生可以讓有駕照并且有豐富駕駛經(jīng)驗的同學或者朋友教自己開車。