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1、GRE作文题库GRE作文题库This page contains the Argument topics for the analytical writing section of the GRE General Test. When you take the test, you will be presented with one Argument topic from this pool. The wording of some topics in the test might vary slightly from what is presented here. Therefore, re

2、ad your test topic carefully and respond to the wording as it appears in the actual test. Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument The following appeared in an editorial in the local newspaper of Workville. Workers should be allowed to reduce their workload from 40 to 25 or even 20 hours per

3、 week because it is clear that people who work part-time instead of full-time have better health and improved morale. One store in Workville, which began allowing its employees to work part-time last year, reports that fewer days of sick leave were taken last year than in previous years. In contrast

4、, the factory in Workville, which does not allow any of its employees to work part-time, had a slight increase in the number of days of sick leave taken last year. In addition, a recent survey reports that most of the store employees stated that they are satisfied with their jobs, while many of the

5、factory employees stated that they are dissatisfied with their jobs. The following is a memo from the principal of Academia High School. Academia High School should abolish its after-school performing-arts programs and replace them with computer-technology programs. When nearby Techno High School di

6、d so last year, total enrollment in all of its after-school activities remained about the same. Moreover, on entering college, many Techno students chose a major directly related to their after-school activities. On the other hand, last year only 10 percent of Academias graduating seniors chose perf

7、orming arts as their major field of study in their first year of college, clearly indicating that most students do not have a strong interest in the performing arts. The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers. New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that thei

8、r work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record. But the editors of Mystery Writers Magazine have good news for aspiring writers: the number of mystery novels published in the last two years has grown significantly, and more people r

9、ead mysteries than any other type of novel. In addition, almost half of the mystery novels published last year were written by first-time novel writers. Since there is apparently an expanding market for mystery novels, all publishers will want to increase the number of mystery novels they publish. T

10、herefore, new writers should write mystery novels to increase their chances for first-time publication with a larger, prestigious company. The following is a memorandum from the business manager of WLSS television station. Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increasingly more

11、 time to covering national news and less time to covering weather and local news. During the same time period, most of the complaints we received from viewers were concerned with the stations coverage of weather and local news. In addition, several local businesses that used to run advertisements du

12、ring our late-night news program have just cancelled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand the coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs. The follo

13、wing is part of a letter from the Brookfree School Board. As part of our new educational reform program, we identified ten schools most in need of immediate improvement. An advisory committee is now recommending that we hire consultants to study further the schools problems and to propose a plan of

14、action. Only two years ago, however, another group of consultants determined that several schools in our district had problems because their principals were inexperienced. Thus, if we want to see immediate improvement in our schools and save the district the money it would spend on hiring more consu

15、ltants, we should replace all the principals in the ten worst schools with ten of our most experienced principals in the district. The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper. At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of recreational activ

16、ity, even though surveys of the regions residents consistently rank water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be avoiding the river because they think that it is not cle

17、an enough. But that situation is about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to clean up Mason River. Therefore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly o

18、wned lands along the Mason River. The following report appeared in a memo from the vice president of the Southside Transportation Authority. We should abandon our current five-year plan to purchase additional buses to serve the campus of Southside University, because students there are unlikely to u

19、se them. Consider the results of the recent campaign sponsored by the Environmental Club at Southside University: in a program on the campus radio station, the club asked students to call in and pledge that they would commute to school by bus instead of by automobile at least one day per week. Only

20、ten percent of the students called in and pledged. In view of the campaigns lack of success, we can assume that the bus service we currently offer will continue to be sufficient to serve the university. The following appeared in the editorial section of an educational publication. One study at Lee U

21、niversity found that first-semester grades of teenage students who had always attended public, tax-supported schools were slightly lower than the grades of students who had received some home schooling instruction by parents at home, although the grade differences disappeared in the second semester.

22、 These results suggest that home schooling is the best way to educate teenage children. Therefore, instead of spending more money on public education, the government should provide financial incentives so that home schooling is an option for more parents. After all, children schooled at home receive

23、 more attention, since they are taught by the best possible teacher: a parent who has a high stake in educating them well. The following appeared in a report of the Committee on Faculty Promotions and Salaries at Elm City University. During her 17 years as a professor of botany, Professor Thomas has

24、 proved herself to be well worth her annual salary of $50,000. Her classes are among the largest at the university, demonstrating her popularity among students. Moreover, the money she has brought to the university in research grants has exceeded her salary in each of the last two years. Therefore,

25、in consideration of Professor Thomas demonstrated teaching and research abilities, we recommend that she receive a $10,000 raise and a promotion to Department Chairperson; without such a raise and promotion, we fear that Professor Thomas will leave Elm City University for another college. The follow

26、ing appeared in a newsletter distributed at a recent political rally. Over the past year, the Consolidated Copper Company (CCC) has purchased over one million square miles of land in the tropical nation of West Fredonia. Mining copper on this land will inevitably result in pollution and environmenta

27、l disaster, since West Fredonia is home to several endangered animal species. But such disaster can be prevented if consumers simply refuse to purchase products that are made with CCCs copper until the company abandons its mining plans. The article entitled Eating Iron in last months issue of Eating

28、 for Health reported that a recent study found a correlation between high levels of iron in the diet and an increased risk of heart disease. Further, it is well established that there is a link between large amounts of red meat in the diet and heart disease, and red meat is high in iron. On the basi

29、s of the study and the well-established link between red meat and heart disease, we can conclude that the correlation between high iron levels and heart disease, then, is most probably a function of the correlation between red meat and heart disease. The following appeared as a letter to the editor

30、of a national newspaper. Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in the United States is misleading. The article gives the mistaken impression that many competent workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable emplo

31、yment. But this impression is contradicted by a recent report on the United States economy, which found that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated. The report also demonstrates that many of those who lost their jobs have found new employment. Two-thirds of the newly cr

32、eated jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time. *Downsizing is the process in which corporations deliberately reduce the number of their employees. According to a poll of 200 charitable organizations, donations of money to nonprofit groups increased by nearly 25 percent last year, though not all charities gained equally. Relig