难易程度：★★★

题目题材：城市，社会

gre argument 227题目：

The following appeared as an editorial in a local newspaper.

"In order to attract visitors to Central Plaza downtown and to return the plaza to its former glory(5), the city should prohibit skateboarding there and instead allow skateboarders to use an area in Monroe Park(2). At Central Plaza, skateboard users are about the only people one sees now, and litter and defaced property have made the plaza unattractive(1). In a recent survey of downtown merchants(3), the majority supported a prohibition on skateboarding in the plaza. Clearly, banning skateboarding in Central Plaza will make the area a place where people can congregate for fun or for relaxation(4,6)."

提纲：

(1)The author unfairly assumes that it is the presence of skateboarders that result in the current situation of the plaza.

(2)There may be some negative impacts of allowing skateboarders to use part of Monroe Park.

(3)The survey was based only on data from downtown merchants, thus could not be representative of all citizens.

(4)The author unfairly assumes that banning skateboarding in Central Plaza would suffice to make the plaza an attractive place.

(5)The author fails to consider other possible means to regain the plaza’s prosperity.

(6)Skateboarding may actually be helpful for achieving the city's objective of providing a fun and relaxing place for people to congregate.

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