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题目题材：商业，生产
gre argument 212题目：
The following appeared in a memorandum from the new president of the Patriot car manufacturing company.
"In the past, the body styles of Patriot cars have been old-fashioned, and our cars have not sold as well as have our competitors' cars. But now, since many regions(3) in this country report rapid increases in the numbers of newly licensed drivers(4), we should be able to increase our share(7) of the market by selling cars to this growing population(2,8). Thus, we should discontinue our oldest models (1) and concentrate instead on manufacturing sporty cars (5, 6). We can also improve the success of our marketing campaigns by switching our advertising to the Youth Advertising agency (10, 11), which has successfully promoted the country's leading soft drink (9)."
提纲：
(1)The president unfairly assumes that it is the body style of Patriot cars that was responsible for the decline in the sales of those cars.
(2)The increase in the number of new drivers does not automatically lead to the increase in the demand for new cars.
(3)The president unfairly assumes that those regions which report increases in the numbers of new drivers account for a statistically significant portion of Patriot’s potential buyers.
(4)The president fails to inform us what proportion of the country experienced increases in the number of new drivers, the actual number of these drivers, and the variation of new driver population in other regions.
(5)No evidence concerning the preference of new drivers in term of the style of cars is provided, thus we cannot evaluate if we should manufacture sporty cars instead of old models.
(6)Granted that the new drivers will tend to favor sporty cars, the president concludes hastily that these drivers will favor Patriot’s sporty cars over other manufacturer’s sporty cars.
(7)We do not know what percentage of the whole car population do the newly licensed drivers make up.
(8)The president fails to consider if the new drivers could afford sporty cars.
(9)The promotion of soft drink might not be comparable with that of cars.
(10)The president fails to illustrate that Patriot’s current advertising agency is partly responsible for Patriot’s poor sales, and that it is necessary to replace the agency with another.
(11)The president fails to prove that Youth would be more effective than Patriot’s current ad agency.
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