【题目要求】
100 years ago, human race believed we would make continue progress in all areas of life. Today, some people feel less certain about this. what areas of progress human race has made? What else areas we haven't developed?
【点评一】
本题是2009年5月21日的话题,属于抽象类话题。抽象类话题看似难写,实际上只要转换成具体话题就容易手了。进步的领域:科技,教育。仍需改进的领域:环保,犯罪,人口老龄化,动物保护,文化语言保护。本题几乎无所不包,雅思写作题库中几乎所有话题都能用于本题。
【点评二】
题目 Some people think the human race has made continual progress in all areas of life, while others believe that there is less certainty about this. What areas of progress human race has made? What else areas we have not developed?
一些人认为人类在各方面已经取得了不断的进步,而另外一些人认为并非如此。人类在哪些领域取得了进步?哪些领域没有取得发展?
开头段 How to make a better life never fails to capture people’s attention throughout much of the human history ,which serves as a catalyst for the continuing development in every aspect of life. Some people, however, believe that the so called “development” cannot be regarded as real progress.
中间段1 回答第一问:人类在哪些领域取得了进步? 1. 众所周知,几个世纪以来,人类一直致力于通过发展科技来改善生存环境。
It is commonly believed that human beings have been striking for improving living conditions by evolving science and technology for many centuries.
【论证示范】
Due to the convenient transportation system, citizens in China are able to enjoy fresh American lemons which were once not available to Chinese or people in many other counties. Communication modes mainly relied on writing letters in the past also witnessed a significantly transformation with the advent of internet, making friends or families enable to contact each other instantly by their computers or tablets.2.其次,与过去相比,人类在医学领域取得了许多突破。
Furthermore, compared with the past , there are many breakthroughs having been achieved in medical care.
中间段2 回答第二问:哪些领域没有取得发展? 1. 污染,全球变暖,物种灭绝等环境问题已经成为很多国家头痛的问题,它们经常会陷于经济发展和生态平衡的困境中。
Environmental problems in terms of pollutions, global warming ,species extinction and so forth, have been a great headache to most nations who always trap into a dilemma between economic development and ecological balance. 2.各个种族和宗教间的武装冲突是一个持续性的问题,这对世界的和平与和谐造成了威胁。
Arm conflict among various races and religions is another endless problem posing a large threat to world peace and harmony.
结尾段 To sum up, although a lack of knowledge concerning how to control human desire seems to be a big handicap to human civilization, it should be admitted that we have made a great progress in many fields , and the advancement is expected to continue.
作者词汇量积累不错,能较准确地使用学术词汇,单词拼写要仔细;文中应适当增加从句和长难句的使用;上下文衔接稍显不流畅。
In the past 100 years, people have made big progress in many areas, such as computer sciences, medical sciences, transportation, and diversity of food. However, there are still some aspects waiting for continuely improvement. Compared to the past time, people can travel to different places more efficiently. In cities, commuters' offices can be far away from their houses. They have many vehiches to choose from to get to their offices, such as subway, bus or private car. By using these high efficiency tools, it makes modern people be able to pursue better job opportunities whitout constriction of distances. Furthermore, the transportation advance also makes people from different regions or nations interact more than before, namely, products and culture exchanges are more easily nowadays. It provides benefits to all the people around the world. The advance of medical sciences has also change people's life a lot. Taking life expectancy for example, people can live much longer than before. The more people know medical sciences, the better and longer people can live. Besides above two aspects, the development of computer sciences is also important to people's modern life. We used to send mail to our friends by hand-writing and posting through post office systems. It not only cost our money but also wasted our time. In present time, we can use computer to type a mail and send out via network, the mail can reach our friend in several minutes with nearly no charge. It is much more convenient than before. On the other hand, there are still some aspects which we need to put more efferts to improve. The environmental issues are cirtical to human beings, if people even cannot enjoy fresh air, there is no way to ensure we can have a health body. Some countries have focused on economy development and neglected the environmental protection, it is not a good way to human's life. In conclusion, we have made big progress in some aspects, but we need put more efforts to the aspects that are not perfect now. Only in this way, we can live a health and high quality livelihood.