2017年3月21日北京鼎钧gre作文机经.

　　考试时间：2011年3月21日 10:30

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧大厦

　　Issue235."Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty—whether to one&aposs friends, to one&aposs school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force.

　　28"Students should memorize facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts. Students who have learned only facts have learned very little."

　　Argument179.(餐饮，经营/建议/并列)The following is a memorandum written by the director of personnel to the president of the Cedar Corporation.

　　"It would be a mistake to rehire the Good-Taste Company to supply the food in our employee cafeteria next year. It is the second most expensive(2) caterer in the city. In addition, its prices have risen in each of the last three years(1), and it ruses to provide meals for people on special diets(3). Just last month three employees(5) complained to me that they no longer eat in the cafeteria because they find the experience &aposunbearable.&apos(4) Our company should instead hire Discount Foods. Discount is a family-owned local company and it offers a varied menu of fish and poultry(6). I(8) recently tasted a sample lunch(7) at one of the many companies that Discount serves and it was delicious—an indication that hiring Discount will lead to improved employee satisfaction."

　　1.The director fails to inform us if the prices of other caterers have also been rising through the past years. (confusing comparison and variation) ★★★

　　2. The director fails to inform us how much does Discount charge for its services. (ex parte information) ★★★

　　3. The mere fact that Good-Taste charges the second most expensive price and it does not provide meals for people on special diet is insufficient evidence to illustrate that we should not continue to hire the company. (I.E) ★★★★

　　4. Without clear understanding of what the employees’ word ‘unbearable’ rers to, we cannot unfairly assumes that Good-Taste is responsible for the complaints. (dinition o f the term ‘unbearable’/I.I) ★★★★

　　5. The three unsatisfied employees could hardly constitute a statistically representative sample. (quantity of the samle) ★★★

　　6. The director fails to investigate if the menu provided by Discount could satisfy people on special diet. (I.I/U.A) ★★★

　　7. A sample lunch could hardly be representative of all lunches provided by Discount. (selective sample) ★★★

　　8. The director&aposs tastes do not necessarily represent the collective tastes of Cedar employees, thus the assumption that hiring Discount will lead to improved employee satisfaction is unwarranted. (selective sample) ★★★★

　　考试时间：2011年3月21日

　　考试地点：北京鼎钧大厦

　　Issue235."Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty—whether to one&aposs friends, to one&aposs school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force."

　　28."Students should memorize facts only after they have studied the ideas, trends, and concepts that help explain those facts. Students who have learned only facts have learned very little."

　　Argument205.The following appeared in a recommendation from the president of Amburg&aposs Chamber of Commerce.

　　"Last October the city of Belleville installed high intensity lighting in its central business district, and vandalism there declined almost immediately. The city of Amburg has recently begun police patrols on bicycles in its business district but the rate of vandalism there remains constant. Since high intensity lighting is apparently the most fective way to combat crime, we should install such lighting throughout Amburg. By reducing crime in this way, we can revitalize the declining neighborhoods in our city."