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长时间以来，很多中国同学在准备这两种作文的过程中都认为ISSUE比较困难，而ARGUMENT比较简单，因而很明显地呈现出一种重ISSUE，轻 ARGUMENT的状态。然而，我在统计最近几年中国同学的GRE作文成绩时发现，如果大家的ARGUMENT成绩还不错的话，那最后的总分应该不会低 到现在的地步。于是，我到网上仔细阅读了一些同学作文，并看了大多数大家所膜拜或参考的提纲，发现同学的ARGUMENT分数低是完全可能的，因 为很多人写的ARGUMENT，都不符合ETS官方说明的要求，主要问题有如下的几个方面。 第一，很多同学对题目的理解本身有问题。很多同学在准备ARGUMENT的过程中，没有仔细阅读ETS官方发布的题库，而是大量参考网上流传的或者一些参考书上给出的 中文翻译，甚至完全不看题目的英文原文。但是，这些翻译有一些和原题实际表达的意思是不一致的，这就会造成同学们在分析题目论证错误的过程中出现问题。比 如，有一道题目原文是： The following appeared in the editorial section of Monroetowns local newspaper. Mayor Brown was recently re-elected by a clear majority of 52 percent of Monroetowns voters. Her re-election, however, does not show that most people in our town favored Mayor Browns proposal for tax reduction over that of her opponent, Mr. Greene, who proposed raising taxes to improve education. It has been shown that voters nationwide tend to re-elect people already in office, regardless of candidates | 
