劉文勇GRE寫作Argument題庫 Day 44

Day 44 Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC)has purchased over 10,000square miles of land in the tropical nationof West Fredonia

The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a journal on environmental issues.

“Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and, since West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species, in environmental disaster. But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans.”

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）“Over the past year, the Crust Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over 10,000 square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia”和“West Fredonia is the home of several endangered animal species”是事實，“But such disasters can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCC's copper unless the company abandons its mining plans”是結(jié)論，值得反駁嗎？

（2）原文中是否給出了足夠多的證據(jù)來證明：開采銅礦將不可避免地導(dǎo)致污染？利用最先進的技術(shù)是否可能避免？

（3）原文提到 West Fredonia 是許多瀕臨滅絕動物的棲息地，這些動物一定生活在 CCC公司所購買的土地上嗎？它們的生存環(huán)境一定會受到該公司的影響嗎？

（4）要求消費者拒絕購買 CCC公司生產(chǎn)的銅制品可行嗎？ CCC公司的銅制品與其他公司的銅制品容易區(qū)分嗎？一個公司的產(chǎn)品是否有直接產(chǎn)品與間接產(chǎn)品之分？

（5）該公司一定會因為消費者拒絕購買產(chǎn)品而放棄自己的開采計劃嗎？