GRE作文入門和進階八

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142.The article entitled 'Eating Iron' in last month's issue of Eating 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 basis 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.
    析題:仔細讀過,發(fā)現(xiàn)這道題有點繞,很多考生曾經(jīng)有過這樣的困惑:“我沒有理解最后一句話的意思is most probably a function of the correlation between red meat and heart disease.是說high iron level于heart disease之間的關(guān)系是red meat與heart disease之間有關(guān)的結(jié)果那作者到底是認為high iron level和heart disease之間有沒有關(guān)系阿?”再讀之下,我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)作者其實做了一個順接推論:red meat引起心臟病——> red meat里面還有大量的鐵——> 高鐵引起心臟病,就是這么一個簡單的推論過程,關(guān)鍵認清誰推出誰,就要在審題時注意到關(guān)鍵的這么看似不經(jīng)意卻被友好的ETS“重復(fù)兩次”的短語“well established”,也就是說“大量紅肉與心臟病之間一定有聯(lián)系”是不容質(zhì)疑的論據(jù),即本題論據(jù)是不容批駁的,關(guān)鍵問題在于由論據(jù)推導(dǎo)出結(jié)論的時候犯了“Implicit causal claims”和“gratuitous assumptions”(詳細邏輯謬誤分類見后文“七宗罪”),因而我們就可以以次展開攻擊。很多來自網(wǎng)上的文章和提綱在本題上顛倒了推導(dǎo)對象,把“高鐵引起心臟病”作為論據(jù)來推出“red meat引起心臟病”,結(jié)果導(dǎo)致文章失誤。下面讀者可通過以下范文檢驗一下該論證過程和思路: