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标题: AA 123 请求指点 [打印本页]

作者: lijiahui0422 时间: 2008-5-1 11:52
标题: AA 123 请求指点

这打字速度还真是个问题。。。

123. The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a River
City newspaper.

“The Clio Development Group’s plan for a multilevel parking garage on

Dock Street

should be approved in order to strengthen the economy of the surrounding area. Although most of the buildings on the block would have to be demolished, they are among the oldest in the city and thus of little current economic value. Those who oppose the project should realize that historic preservation cannot be the only consideration: even Athens or Jerusalem will knock down old buildings to put up new ones that improve the local economy.”

In this argument, the author advocates the conclusion that Clio Development Group’s plan of building a parking garage at the expense of removing some old buildings on the block is economically effective. To support his conclusion, the author assumes that the historic preservation will conflict with the maximum profits. However, this line of reason is not entirely logically convincing, since it has certain fallacies.

In the first place, the author asserts makes a gratuitous assumption that the old buildings can not bring any incomes and will not do any contributions to the city’s economy. However, this assumption is weak. As we known, historic constructions will appeal a lot of people to visit ,developing the industry of tourism . If the revenue of tourism accounts for a high proportion of the total revenue in the city, demolishing the historic buildings will bring a significant loss. Without information that the industry of tourism is not so important to the city as mentioned, it is imprudent to draw the conclusion that the author’s advice is better.

On the second thought, even the historic preservation can not help the city extend its profits, it is unwarranted to judge that the historic preservations are useless, evaluating rationality just from the economic effective seems to be one-sided. The cities maybe have a long history and the old buildings see the development of the city, people visit in the historic area could study what happened to the past. The buildings also have some worth to the archeologists. So the author’s argument without taking other factors in to account is biased.

Finally, the author cites an example based on a false analogy between the past and present in all respects. Although there are several compilations between them, the dissimilarities are more obvious. After careful considerations, we could find the background between the Athens or Jerusalem and nowdays people is in a significant differences. Unlike the productivities in modern time, the productivities in the Athens or Jerusalem’s time is so low that improving the productivities would be job one, in the other hand, Athens or Jerusalem views the buildings just shelters ,which have nothing to do with their social value that is important to modern people.

As it stands, the argument is not well reasoned . to make the argument more logically acceptable, the author should weigh between social values and economic values , set more convincing examples to support his view. Unless these things are done well, the author’s point will not seem to be reasoned.

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