4月gre考试：gre argument题库及译文详解（1）
221The following appeared in a health newsletter.
"A ten-year nationwide study of the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while bicycling indicates that ten years ago, approximately 35 percent of all bicyclists reported wearing helmets, whereas today that number is nearly 80 percent. Another study, however, suggests that during the same ten-year period, the number of accidents caused by bicycling has increased 200 percent. These results demonstrate that bicyclists feel safer because they are wearing helmets and they take more risks as a result. Thus, to reduce the number of serious injuries from bicycle accidents, the government should concentrate more on educating people about bicycle safety and less on encouraging or requiring bicyclists to wear helmets."
222The following is a memo from the president of Cyberell Computer Company.
"All of our customer-service employees recently attended a two-day retreat during which they received retraining in effective customer service. Subsequently, Cyberell's employee-performance study showed that the retreat benefited new employees — those who have worked with Cyberell for less than two years — far more than it did experienced employees. According to the study, after the retreat new employees were able to handle an average of ten percent more calls per hour, and the total number of customer complaints about new employees decreased, but experienced employees showed little improvement in these areas. Therefore, Cyberell should send only new employees to future retreats and should use the resulting savings to double the length of the retreats so that the retreats will be more likely to yield optimum employee performance."
223The following appeared in the Pine City Gazette.
"Fifteen years ago, Pine City launched an electricity-conservation program that reimbursed residents some of the cost for replacing energy-wasteful motors, home office equipment, and home appliances with energy-efficient ones. For ten years, spending on this program increased annually, and annual total energy consumption declined. But spending on the program began to decline five years ago, and since then Pine City's total electricity consumption has increased sharply. If this increased usage continues, the city will have to build a costly new power plant. Obviously the best way to avoid this expense is to increase reimbursement to residents for replacing energy-wasteful equipment. This will reduce energy usage to the levels of five years ago."
224The following appeared in a health newsletter.
"Eating a heavy meal may increase the risk of heart attack. A recent survey of 2,000 people who had had a heart attack revealed that 158 of them said they had eaten a heavy meal within 24 hours before their heart attack, and 25 of them said they had eaten a heavy meal within 2 hours before their heart attack. Eating and digesting food releases hormones into the bloodstream and temporarily increases heart rate and blood pressure slightly. Both of these things put stress on the heart. Therefore, people who are at risk of having a heart attack can lower that risk by not overeating."
225The following is a memo from the business manager of National Daily News.
"To expand the home delivery service of our national newspaper, we should concentrate on the state of Urba rather than on the state of Sylva. First, the population of Sylva is more widely dispersed, which would require us to spend more money to deliver our papers in that area, resulting in less profit per customer. Second, a long-term study of television viewing habits suggests that Sylvans prefer local to national news, since they spend twice as much time viewing local news programs as they do viewing national programs. Finally, because events in Urba receive more coverage in our newspaper than do events in Sylva, we can expect Urbans to be more interested in reading our newspaper."
226The following is a recommendation from the president of Appleby College.
"Whereas Appleby College holds class reunion s every five years, Edelston College holds annual reunion s for all classes, during which Edelston's alumni are treated to banquets, lectures, and student performances, enhancing their loyalty to the college and their willingness to donate money. Edelston College receives most of its alumni donations during or shortly after these reunion s. Therefore, the best way for Appleby to increase its alumni donations is to offer similar reunion activities and to have each graduating class hold annual reunion s."
227The following appeared in a health magazine.
"It has long been believed that getting at least eight hours of sleep a night is good for health. But a recent six-year study of adult sleeping habits found that people who reported sleeping eight or more hours a night had a higher rate of certain health problems than did those who reported sleeping seven hours a night. People who reported sleeping five hours a night also had an increased rate of the health problems, but this increase was slight compared to that for people who reported sleeping eight or more hours a night. Clearly, people should try to get seven hours of sleep, and they should worry more about getting too much sleep than too little."
228The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.
"In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits."
229The following appeared in an editorial in the Garden City Gazette.
"To address the parking problems in our downtown business district, it has been proposed that the city increase parking capacity by building a four-story parking garage. However, this project would cost more than it would to improve the downtown pedestrian plaza. Because the pedestrian plaza is an important attraction that draws people to the downtown area, improvements to it will increase business for downtown merchants. The merchants' higher profits will ultimately produce increased tax revenues for the city. Therefore, we should invest in the plaza improvements first and then use the revenues thus generated to pay for the construction of the parking garage."
230The following appeared in the Sherwood Times newspaper.
"A recent study reported that pet owners have longer, healthier lives on average than do people who own no pets. Specifically, dog owners tend to have a lower incidence of heart disease. In light of these findings, Sherwood Hospital should form a partnership with Sherwood Animal Shelter to institute an 'adopt-a-dog' program. The program would encourage dog ownership for patients recovering from heart disease, which will help reduce medical costs by reducing the number of these patients needing ongoing treatment. In addition, the publicity about the program will encourage more people to adopt pets from the shelter, which will reduce the risk of heart disease in the general population."
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221一项为期十年的对于在骑自行车时戴头盔的作用的研究显示，10年前，所有骑车人中大约有35%报告说他们戴头盔，现在这个比例接近80%。然而另外一项调查显示在相同的十年期间，因骑车引起的事故数量增加了200%。这些结果说明骑车人因为戴着头盔而感到更安全，因而导致他们面临更大的危险。因此，为减少自行车事故中严重伤害的数量，政府应该更多地对人们加强自行车安全的教育，并提供鼓励或要求骑车人戴头盔的课程。
222我们所有的客户服务人员最近参加了一次为期两天的进修，进修期间他们接受了关于有效的客户服务方面的再训练。结果，Cyberell的员工绩效考察发现进修对于新员工--即那些在Cyberell工作不到两年的员工--的作用远大于对老员工的作用。根据这次考察，进修之后新员工平均每小时能够多应答10%的电话，而客户对于新员工的投诉总量下降了，但老员工在这些方面的提高很小。因此，Cyberell应该只把新员工送去参加未来的进修，并应该把因此而节省的开支用于把进修的时间加倍，这样的话进修将会导致更好的员工绩效
223 15年前，Pine City实施了一项节电措施，该措施给予市民一定的补偿用于把能耗大的电机、家用办公设备和家用电器更换为节能的型号。在开始的十年，在这项措施上的支出每年都在增加，而每年的总用电量下降了。但在这项措施上的支出在五年前开始减少，并且从那以后Pine City的总用电量急剧上升。如果这种用量上升的势头持续下去，城市将必须修建一座昂贵的新的发电厂。显然避免这项开支的最好办法就是增加对居民更换大能耗设备的补偿。这将把能源消耗降低到五年前的水平。
224每顿饭食量过大会增加患心脏病的危险。最近一项对于2000名曾经患心脏病的人调查发现，其中有158人说在患心脏病前的24小时之内吃过一顿量很大的饭，其中有25人说在患心脏病前两小时之内吃过量很大的饭。食用和消化食物将会向血液中释放荷尔蒙，并暂时轻微增加心率和血压。这些都会增加心脏的压力。因此，那些有患心脏病危险的人可以通过避免饮食过量而减少这种危险。
225 为扩展我们国家报纸的家庭递送服务，我们应该集中力量于Urba州而不是Sylva州。首先，Sylva的人口分布得更加分散，这要求我们在这个州递送报纸的时候要花更多的钱，从而导致每个客户的平均利润减少。其次，一项长期的对于观看电视的习惯的研究表明，Sylva的居民相对于国家新闻而言更喜欢看地方新闻，因为他们用于观看地方新闻节目的时间是观看国家节目的两倍。最后，由于Urba州的事件在我们报纸上所占的版面要多于Sylva的事件，我们可以预计Urba的居民对于我们的报纸会更感兴趣。
226 Appleby学院每五年举行一次班级同学聚会，而Edelston学院的所有班级每年举行聚会，并且在聚会上Edelston的校友可以参加宴会、讲座和学生表演，这提高了他们对学校的感情以及他们给母校捐款的愿望。Edelston学院的大部分校友捐款是在聚会期间或之后很短时间内获得的。因此，Appleby增加校友捐款的最好途径就是组织类似的聚会活动，并且让每个毕业班级组织一年一度的聚会。
227长期以来人们相信每天睡眠至少8小时是有利于健康的。但是最近一次对于成年人睡眠习惯的为期6年的研究发现，那些报告说每天睡眠8小时或以上的人某些健康问题的发生率比那些报告说每天睡7小时的人高。报告说每天睡5小时的人健康问题发生率也高，但和报告8小时睡眠的人相比比较轻微。显然，人们应该尽量每天睡7小时，并且相对于睡眠不足来说，他们更应该避免睡眠过量。
228为提高我们的员工的生产效率，我们应该在员工的终端上加装电子监控来监视员工对互联网的使用。如果我们要减少用于私人以及娱乐活动，比如购物或玩游戏的工作时间，在终端上使用互联网的员工必须要被确认并且受到惩罚。通过在公司电脑上安装检测员工使用互联网的软件，我们可以防止员工浪费时间，并培养Climpson更好的工作氛围，以及提高我们的整体利润。
229为解决我们闹市商业区的停车问题，曾有提案提出建造一幢4层停车楼来增加车位。然而，这一方案的花费要比改善闹市步行广场的花费多。由于步行广场是把人们吸引到闹市区的重要因素，对于它的改善将会促进闹市的商业。更多的商业利润将最终增加城市税收。因此，我们应该首先投资于广场改造，然后用它产生的收入来建造停车楼。
230一项最近的研究报告说养宠物的人平均而言比不养宠物的人活得更长更健康。特别是，养狗的人心脏病发病率更低。根据这些发现，Sherwood医院应该和Sherwood动物收养所合作建立一个"收养狗"的计划。这一计划将会鼓励正在治疗心脏病的患者养狗，这将通过减少这些患者接受治疗的次数而减少医疗费用。而且，对于这一计划的宣传将鼓励更多的人从收养所领养宠物，这将减少整体人群患心脏病的危险。
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