1. Neuroscientists are making progress in discovering more about the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease patients suffer from dementia and sever memory loss. Autopsies performed on such patients have revealed the presence of brain lesions caused by abnormal protein deposits. Similar deposits are also found in the brains of elderly patients who do not suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. It follows that everyone who lives long enough will eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease.
--LSAT Section One No.8
2. Top college graduates are having more difficulty demonstrating their superiority to prospective employers than did the top students of twenty years ago when an honors degree was distinction enough. Today’s employers are less impressed with the honors degree. Twenty years ago no more than 10 percent of a given class graduated with honors. Today, however, because of grade inflation, the honors degree goes to more than 50 percent of a graduating class, Therefore, to restore confidence in the degrees they award, colleges must take steps to control grade inflation.
--LSAT Section One No.13
3.Older United States automobiles have been identified as contributing disproportionately to global air pollution. The requirement in many jurisdictions that automobiles pass emission-control inspections has had the effect of taking many such automobiles out of service in the United States, as they fail inspection and their owners opt to buy newer automobiles. Thus the burden of pollution such older United States automobiles contribute to the global atmosphere will be gradually reduced over the next decade.
--FEIFEI 112
4.The brains of identical twins are genetically identical. When only one of a pair of identical twins is a schizophrenic, certain areas of the affected twin’s brain are smaller than corresponding areas in the brain of the unaffected twin. No such differences are found when neither twin is schizophrenic. Therefore, this discovery provides definitive evidence that schizophrenia is caused by damage to the physical structure of the brain.
--FEIFEI 102
5. Every photograph, because it involves the light rays that something emits hitting film, must in some obvious sense be true. But because it could always have been made to show things differently than it does, it cannot express the whole truth and, in that sense, is false. Therefore, nothing can ever be definitively proved with a photograph.
调查显示irregular protein导致Al disease的发生,而这个disease又会造成memory loss and other symptoms,所以结论说这些同样有类似的protein的健康老人最终会发病。 如果是weaken,可以说这种protein在一定时间内会由于时间的长度自己分解掉,这样就不会发病了。 如果是strengthen,可以说有一些代表性的sample显示很多健康的老人都最终患病。 如果是assumption,可以说造成memory loss的原因没有其他,只能是irregular protein。。(哈哈,自己感觉举的例子很偏激阿)
1. 39s Background information:A disease can cause X and memory loss. Premise: 1. One material in the protain deposit occurs the brain of patients suffering from A. 2. Such material occurs in the brain of elderly people too. Conclusion: People are likely to have A disease when they are old.
2. 44s (看了一遍 突然接到朋友电话 听完又看了一遍><) Background Information: Graduates nowadays are less able to tell about their advantages than Graduates 20 years ago. Premise: 1. The honor degree of 20 years ago is much more precious than now. 2. Now, An honor degree is valued less for the employers. Conclusion: To restore graduates' confidents, colleges should control degree inflation.
3. 35s Background Information: Automobiles pollucte air condiction. Premise: Legislation commands that if emissions of the automobile are excessive, the owner should buy new automobile which is more enviromentally friendly. Conclusion: The environment in the U.S. will gragually become better.
4. 43s Premise: When one of a twin has S, certain area in his brain have something different from the other one who does not have S. But when both of a twin have S, certaion area in the brains are the same. Conclusion: S is caused by damage to the structure of certain area in the brain.
5. 40s Premise: Because ..., the photograph must be true in sense. But the things in photograph must be different from what is actually seen by our eyes. Conclusion: We can not definitely see truth through photograph.