GRE作文新增的argument题目(3)_GRE写作

GRE作文新增的argument题目(3)

　　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 use 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 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 an editorial in the mason city newspaper.

　　at present, mason city residents seldom use the nearby mason river for any kind of recreational activity, even though surveys of the regions residents consistently rank water sports 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 clean 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 owned lands along the mason river.