这一段作者引用了三个退役将军StanleyMcChrystal， JohnBridgeland 和Alan Khazei对志愿活动的支持，从理性角度让读者更信服公共服务号召的合理性。
“We’ve aremarkable opportunity now,” McChrystal says, “to move with the American people away from an easy citizenship that does not ask something from every American yet asks a lot from a tiny few.” We do, indeed, owe something to our country,and we owe an enormous debt to those who have done tour after tour in Iraq and Afghanistan.
作者使用来自McChrystal的权威引言(expert quotes)进一步阐释了为什么美国民众需要志愿活动，权威的话增加了论证的可信度。
同时本段还采用了重复(repetition)这一修辞手法，连用二个“owe” 更有力度的指出了我们对国家的亏欠。
McChrystalsees universal service as transformative. “It will change how we think about America and how we think about ourselves,” he says. And as a former leader ofan all-volunteer Army, he scoffs at the idea that giving young Americans astipend while they serve amounts to “paid volunteerism,” the phrase typicallyinvoked by critics of service programs. “If you try to rely on unpaid volunteerism,” he said, “then you limit the people who can do it. . . . I’d like the people from Scarsdale to be paid the same as the people from EastL.A.”
作者使用来自McChrystal的权威引言(expert quotes)来强调这一服务的意义菲方，权威的话增加了论证的可信度。使用“transformative”(改革)而不是“change”，这个措辞强调了这一服务的重大意义。
There are real challenges here. Creating the estimated 1 million service slots requiredto make the prospect of service truly universal will take money, from government and private philanthropy. Service, as McChrystal says, cannot just be a nice thing that well-off kids do when they get out of college. It has to draw in the least advantaged young Americans. In the process, it could open new avenues for social mobility, something the military has done for so many in the past.
作者使用数据论据(statistics)来说明公共服务所面临的一些挑战。
Who knows whether the universal expectation of service would change the country as muchas McChrystal hopes. But we have precious few institutions reminding us to join the Founders in pledging something to each other. We could begin by debating this proposal in a way that frees us from the poisonous assumption that even an idea involving service to others must be part of some hidden political agenda.The agenda here is entirely open. It’s based on the belief that certain unalienable rights entail certain unavoidable responsibilities.
作者在结尾段用了一系列诸如“poisonous”， “hidden”， “entirelyopen”， “unavoidable”和 “unalienable”这样的词汇来诉诸于情感(pathos)，唤起读者心里的强烈责任感。
总的来说，这篇文章选题比较符合新SAT的似乎和风格，行文观点立场鲜明，没有用很复杂的、很抽象的概念，风格亲切平易，分析性写作难度不大。文章的主题是 “young citizens should do more public services”, 作者采用多种方法来支持自己的主旨，其中最为显著的是权威引言，措辞和诉诸于德。
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