A127，上课与利益问题，望拍

大剑Jade

这篇写超时真不是我要找理由，主要是写写就得回头看看题干耽误了不少时间。。写的挺顺的，如果在不用来回滑动鼠标看的正式考试，应该可以30min以内完成。。


我的提纲：
1.这两个雇员是否能够代表所有的雇员，以及Acme的雇员是否能够与别的公司的雇员比较？
2.更快速的阅读是否能够使其吸收的信息更多？
3.上这个课真的能够带来利益吗？让雇员三周不上班去上课是否值得？


Argument
新G题号：127
题目：The following is a recommendation from the personnel director to the president of Acme Publishing Company.
Many other companies have recently stated that having their employees take the Easy Read Speed-Reading Course has greatly improved productivity. One graduate of the course was able to read a 500-page report in only two hours; another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. Obviously, the faster you can read, the more information you can absorb in a single workday. Moreover, Easy Read would cost Acme only $500 per employee—a small price to pay when you consider the benefits. Included in this fee is a three-week seminar in Spruce City and a lifelong subscription to the Easy Read newsletter. Clearly, to improve overall productivity, Acme should require all of our employees to take the Easy Read course.
写作要求：Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
老GRE对应题号：180


The director recommends in this argument that Acme should require all of their employees to take the Easy Read course, due to a seemingly plausible survey conducted recently that many other companies have gained great benefits from the course in various aspects. However, the director is so precipitous that he might leave a series of flaws apparent after a close scrutiny.
First off, the director contends that the fact of two graduates either able to read a 500-page report in two hours or rising from an assistant manager to vice president in under a year could surely account for the effectiveness of the course. But what the director omits to inform us is whether the two graduates are representative of all graduates, and whether the graduates in other companies could be comparable to the ones in Acme. Because of different qualities required by different companies, there might be uncontrollable variables pertaining to the potential of graduates affecting the effectiveness of the course, let alone possibility of the two graduates being the best results of the course. For instance, the graduates in Acme may find it useless to take the course, since a large amount of knowledge imparted in the course has been already acquired in their daily work.
Moreover, even assuming there’s no difference between all graduates, a threshold problem remains: is that absolute that the faster you read, the more information you absorb? While conceding one is supposed to receive more information along with acceleration of the speed of reading, it hardly convinces me that everyone could absorb all information he receives. As is universally known, the ability of human’s memory has its limit, confining human’s endless avarice of acquiring. In this case, one cannot pronounce unequivocally that the more information one receives through faster reading, the more he absorbs.
Besides, even assuming that the foregoing problems could be solved by providing substantial evidence shortly afterwards, there exists another problem in this argument: can the benefits be sufficient to offset $500 per employees? All we could extract from this argument is that the course includes a three-week seminar as well as a lifelong subscription, whose benefits would be easily deteriorated by a host of unexpected factors. These factors involve a rejection of using the Easy Read newsletter, making one benefit not feasible to come true, and so forth. In addition, the three-week seminar should be effective enough to make up the loss of three-week work in Acme, due to the director’s assumption. Otherwise, it’s simple to locate the weakness of this recommendation due to less benefits compared with the loss of Acme.
In retrospect, this recommendation could sail through with several flaws, making it not convincible to be accepted by the president. An alternative avenue should be dispelling the ambiguity caused by the variables discussed in this argument: the qualities of all graduates, the soundness of faster reading contributing to the more information absorbed, and the truly total benefits Acme could receive after planning such a course. Only then could the director confirm his recommendation to be effective after being carried out.


513words, 33min

普渡哥

还有，他们的花费没有计算去上课影响工作带来的经济损失。。

donadong

another graduate rose from an assistant manager to vice president of the company in under a year. ---作者认为阅读速度的提升会使学员高升。导致高升的原因有很多，和阅读速度没有直接联系``

大剑Jade

嗯，这个在理~

donadong

激动··能为高手提出一点useful commendation~

大剑Jade

呃。。高手就免了吧，我逻辑思维可能比较弱，欢迎指点哈，大家共同进步

donadong

嗯