劉文勇GRE寫作Argument題庫 Day 65

Day 65 When Stanley Park first opened, it was the largest, most heavily used public park in town

When Stanley Park first opened, it was the largest, most heavily used public park in town. It is still the largest park, but it is no longer heavily used. Video cameras mounted in the park's parking lots last month revealed the park's drop in popularity: the recordings showed an average of only 50 cars per day. In contrast, tiny Carlton Park in the heart of the business district is visited by more than 150 people on a typical weekday. An obvious difference is that Carlton Park, unlike Stanley Park, provides ample seating. Thus, if Stanley Park is ever to be as popular with our citizens as Carlton Park, the town will obviously need to provide more benches, thereby converting some of the unused open areas into spaces suitable for socializing.

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）“When Stanley Park first opened, it was the largest, most heavily used public park in town”“the recordings showed an average of only 50 cars per day. In contrast, tiny Carlton Park in the heart of the business district is visited by more than 150 people on a typical weekday. An obvious difference is that Carlton Park, unlike Stanley Park, provides ample seating”是事實，“Thus, if Stanley Park is ever to be as popular with our citizens as Carlton Park, the town will obviously need to provide more benches, thereby converting some of the unused open areas into spaces suitable for socializing”是結(jié)論，值得反駁嗎？

（2）從監(jiān)控視頻看到停車場每天平均停 50輛車，就能夠得出結(jié)論認(rèn)為公園的受歡迎程度（流行度）正在降低嗎？車輛的多少的確是客流量的一項指標(biāo)，但是這個指標(biāo)能否反映全部的事實？有哪一部分事實是沒有被反映出來的？比如： Stanley Park可能是大家都愿意步行前往的公園；或者每輛車可能乘坐了三四個人，那么 50輛車就搭乘了超過 150人，所以 Stanley Park的客流量并不比 Carlton Park小。

（3）即使 Carlton Park在工作日的客流量更大，就意味著這個公園一定比 Stanley Park更受人們的歡迎嗎？我們應(yīng)該如何看待 Carlton Park所處的特定位置（ heart of the business district）以及兩者之間比對的時間（ weekday）？ Carlton Park因為位于商業(yè)區(qū)的中心，工作日客流量可能會比 Stanley Park的客流量大，但是在休息日兩個公園的客流量也許就是相反的。而且，人們可能只是經(jīng)過 tiny Carlton Park去商業(yè)區(qū)的其他地方，并不是把公園當(dāng)作目標(biāo)。

（4）即便 Carlton Park確實擁有更大的游客量，真的就是因為公園提供了更多的座位嗎？是否可能有其他文中未提及的原因？比如公園附近的居民區(qū)密度。另外，提供更多座位這個策略對 Carlton Park有效，就意味著它對 Stanley Park也是如此嗎？也許，Stanley Park的問題在于停車位太少，或者衛(wèi)生環(huán)境變差了。

（5）即便安裝更多長椅是一個有效的策略，但是以減少空地面積作為成本是否值得？從另一方面來講，這是否可能會降低公園的吸引力？因為很多人去公園是跑步、運動的，需要空地；而且大的空地可以用來舉辦一些活動，吸引更多的人。