劉文勇GRE寫(xiě)作Argument題庫(kù) Day 25

Day 25 A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise

The following was written as a part of an application for a small-business loan by a group of developers in the city of Monroe.

“A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise. Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away; thus, the proposed new jazz club in Monroe, the C-Note, would have the local market all to itself. Plus, jazz is extremely popular in Monroe: over 100,000 people attended Monroe's annual jazz festival last summer; several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe; and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is ‘Jazz Nightly’, which airs every weeknight at 7 P.M. Finally, a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment.”

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

五問(wèn)：

（1）“Currently, the nearest jazz club is 65 miles away”和“over 100,000 people attended Monroe's annual jazz festival last summer; several well-known jazz musicians live in Monroe; and the highest-rated radio program in Monroe is ‘Jazz Nightly’, which airs every weeknight at 7 P.M. Finally, a nationwide study indicates that the typical jazz fan spends close to $1,000 per year on jazz entertainment”是事實(shí)， “A jazz music club in Monroe would be a tremendously profitable enterprise”是結(jié)論，值得反駁嗎？

（2）當(dāng)前最近的爵士俱樂(lè)部在 65英里遠(yuǎn)，這是為什么？是否有這樣的可能性，就是當(dāng)?shù)厝瞬⒉幌矚g，或者并沒(méi)有孕育出能讓爵士酒吧生存下去的市場(chǎng)？另外，原文有沒(méi)有給出足夠的信息來(lái)評(píng)判 65英里對(duì)于當(dāng)?shù)厝藖?lái)說(shuō)是否足夠遠(yuǎn)？當(dāng)?shù)厝鄙?jazz club就意味著新開(kāi)的 C-Note一定會(huì)受歡迎嗎？其他因素，例如價(jià)格、服務(wù)水平等，都會(huì)影響人們的決定。

（3）有超過(guò)十萬(wàn)人參加當(dāng)?shù)孛磕暌欢鹊木羰恳魳?lè)節(jié)，是否就意味著他們一定很喜歡爵士樂(lè)？這些人一定是當(dāng)?shù)厝藛?？一些著名的爵士?lè)手住在當(dāng)?shù)?，這會(huì)增加還是減少當(dāng)?shù)厝巳ゾ羰烤瓢傻母怕剩?/p>

（4）當(dāng)?shù)刈钍軞g迎的廣播節(jié)目與爵士樂(lè)相關(guān)，是否就意味著這里的人們一定很喜歡爵士樂(lè)？還有其他哪些因素會(huì)影響一個(gè)廣播節(jié)目受歡迎的程度？比如，節(jié)目的播出時(shí)間就極其重要。

（5）原文最后給出了一個(gè)全國(guó)范圍的調(diào)查，但這個(gè)調(diào)查結(jié)果一定適用于當(dāng)?shù)貑?？集體特點(diǎn)一定適用于個(gè)體嗎？樂(lè)迷每年花費(fèi)的 1 000美元一定是用在 jazz club上嗎？這筆錢(qián)也可能用于買(mǎi)唱片、買(mǎi)演唱會(huì)門(mén)票等。另外，有市場(chǎng)就一定會(huì)盈利嗎？酒吧的運(yùn)營(yíng)、管理等都會(huì)對(duì)盈利與否造成影響。