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题目题材：教育
gre argument 236题目：
The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a local Solano newspaper.
"The Solano school district should do away with its music education programs. After all, music programs are not especially popular in our schools: only 20 percent(1) of our high school students participated in music programs last year. Furthermore, very few of the Solano district's college-bound students(3) are interested in majoring in music at the university level(2,4). Also, when the school district of our neighboring town of Rutherford eliminated its music programs two years ago, the overall grade point average in the high school increased by 10 percent(4,5) the next year(6). Surely the money spent on Solano music programs could be better used to improve the quality of traditional academic courses(7,8)."
提纲：
(1)20 percent of our high school students might be a significant group, and the fact mentioned above does not prove that students are uninterested in music. /We do not know the percent of Solano high school students who participated in other programs.
(2)The fact that few college-bound students are interested in majoring in music in the future does not necessarily indicate that music education programs are unnecessary in our schools.
(3)The author fails to consider the attitude of non-college-bound students toward music education.
(4)The author unfairly assumes that any education program is valuable only to the extent that it enhances overall grades and only if students choose to pursue that course of study in college.
(5)The author unfairly assumes that it is the elimination of music programs in Rutherford that resulted in the increase in the overall grade point average.
(6)There might be many other differences between Rutherford and Solano that render the two districts incomparable.
(7)The author fails to demonstrate that the quality of traditional academic courses in Solano district needs to be improved.
(8)The assumption that the money spent on music programs will automatically be used to improve the quality of traditional academic courses once music programs are eliminated is unwarranted.
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