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TOEFL Essay:Is Progress Always Good?
Created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
谢振礼老师海外投稿
>Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Of all the modern inventions, computers alone can prove that progress is not always good. Despite the many benefits that new technology has to deliver, a computer machine, and with it the Internet, may leave room for doubt. The over-dependence of computers as a sign of progress may be destroying physical health and mental creativity to certain degrees.
To begin with, addiction to computer use is damaging human body. Sitting in front of a computer screen for a long time is harmful to eyes and the physical posture. Computers distract people from doing regular physical exercise in daily life, alter users' sleeping patterns, and even affect their eating habits. So much so, there are reasons to be worried about the unwanted influence of technological progress on people, particularly children. While such progress has positively changed the way we live and the way we work, a computer, along with its sub-device like cell phone, is said to be capable of causing diseases. Some scientists have reportedly confirmed cases of brain cancer as being related to over-exposure to computer-screen.
Excessive reliance on the wonders of computers may lead to a possible decline in mental development. To be sure, computers are the most recent demonstrations of progress, being magnificent tools for the realization of our material dreams. But no machine can replace human spark of spirit, compassion, love and understanding. It is as if digital intelligence were to take the place of the quality of extraordinary human intelligence forever. However, although one machine can do the work of 50 persons or more, actually no machine can do the work of an extraordinary person. If technology, for that matter, means the beginning of the end of human creativity, then the price of progress is unbelievably high in terms of human beings' mental growth.
Finally, the progress made possible by new technology is not 100 percent welcome in view of the likely ill influence resulting from over-use of computers on human body and mind. It is beyond our imagination that progress has benefitted us in so numerous ways, being too good to be true, as if gifts from heaven. Nevertheless, among all symbols of progress, computers, like dangerous addictive drugs, might come from hell.
在历年托福和雅思的写作测验真题中，不断的出现关于电脑与互联网之类的议论题。在此重列托福五题雅思五题。针对10题，谢振礼为考生网友试写一篇，过分长，不值得模仿，那是几个月前写的。如果要考托福或雅思，必须要写的更短，方切实际。
TOEFL and IELTS
Writing Topics about computers and the Internet
Example writing
By Mr. Jeenn Lee Hsieh
It has become another world, a different world.
这是另外一个世界，不同的世界。
The arrival of the civilization's new-born kid, the Internet, has made history.
人类文明的新生娇儿，互联网，已经来改变历史。
We have entered into an electronic information age from the era B.C. (before computers).
我们也因电脑而进入电子资讯时期。
Looking back in the past only three decades ago, we feel like going back to the Iron Age
. 回顾30年前，就好像回到铁器时代。
A mere century ago, it seems as if returning to the Stone Age.
一个世纪之前，仿佛回到石器时代。
The present time is a point of departure for a brave new world, inevitably influencing the way we work and our family and social lives.
当今正是我们迈向勇敢新世界的转变点，必将影响我们的工作方式，我们的家庭生活，还有我们的社会生活。
Just what changes this new century will bring may be everybody's guess.
到底这个新世纪，会为我们带来什么改变，任人猜想。
For better or for worse?
是变好，还是变坏？
This new world has presented plenty of wonders.
这个新世界早已呈现许多奇妙的事。
The Internet has connected people at every corner on the planet and beyond, as never before, without limits.
互联网把全世界个角落的人相互连接，在地球上和地球之外，无远佛至，毫无限制。
Its by-device, the cell phone, is playing an increasingly important role in people's professional and social lives.
电脑副产品如手机逐渐在人们的职业和社会生活中，扮演重要的角色。
Intelligent machines such as robots are widely applied to take the place of human beings.
智能机器也已经被广为使用，取代人类。
Such are, in part, the powers of computers.
这种种正是代表电脑一部分的威力。
There are good reasons why some people are being worried.
其实，有些人大有理由关切这种转变。
To them computers have made life more complex and stressful.
对他们而言，电脑只是把他们的生活搞得更复杂而有压力。
People who cannot work with computers will be disadvantaged.
不懂的使用电脑的人将来肯定会吃亏。
The traditional skills and ways of life are fading away.
传统的技术与生活方式，正在慢慢消失。
At its best, easy access to so much information is doing as much harm as good.
顶多，容易取得资讯，对他们而言只是好坏参半。
The more time people use the Internet, the less time they spend with real human beings.
人们使用电脑越多，那么用在与真人接触的时间就越少。
There is no disputing the danger of relying too much on computer screens rather than face-to-face contact.
毫无争议的一点是过分依靠电脑银幕，就是减少人们面对面的接触。
And likely more potential problems are on the way.
很可能的，更多隐藏的问题也快来到。
No wonder that many seem no closer to feeling happy in various respects.
难怪有不少人在诸多方面，并不觉得更快乐。
It is the best of time; and it is the worst of time.
今日时代，说好则是最好，说坏则最坏。
To those who can fully enjoy the new benefits, there is no better time to be alive than now.
完全懂得享受电脑带来的好处的人，活在今天可以说是再好不过了。
Increased material wealth and improved technology have brought about that kind of convenience and comfort and confidence that money can buy.
财富的增加和科技的精进所带来的那种便利和舒适和信心，都是钱买得到的。
But so what?
但，这又代表什么呢？
Instead of getting wiser, people are seeking knowledge, only to find themselves drowing in the sea of information. 人们并不因此变得更有智慧，事实上，人们追求知识，到头来好像自己淹死在咨询的大海里。
Although it seems that people have become more inventive, actually they have become less creative at the same time.
虽然好像人们变得更会发明，实际上也同时变得更缺乏创造力。
The Internet can provide many solutions, yet no computer is so capable as to judge right from wrong.
互联网能提供答案，但是没有电脑懂得辨别是非。
In the pursuit of happiness, we have begun to ask ourselves what on earth we are looking for.
在追求幸福的过程中，我们开始自问，我们在追求的到底是什么。
Doubts arise.
疑云重重。
One thing, however, is sure.
有一事倒是千真万确。
There is no turning back.
绝对是没有回头路。
现代科技与网络
IELTS Writing Topics
雅思Writing Task 2
a. Modern technology is transforming the way we work and is of benefit to our society. How far you think our social lives influenced by modern technology?
b.'Telecommuting' refers to workers doing their jobs from home for part of each week and communiating with their office using computer technology. Telecommuting is growing in many countries and is expected to be common for most office workers in the coming decades. How do you think society will be affected by the growth of telecommuting?
c. Technology is making communication easier in today's world, but at the expense of personal contact as many people choose to work at home in front of a computer screen. What dangers are there for a society which depends on computer screens rather than face-to-face contact for its main means of communication?
d. The Internet is becoming more central to our lives as it provides more information, acts as interactive entertainment and a means of voting. These functions have obvious benefits, but there are dangers involved in the control of the Internet over our lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
e. Advances in technology and the Internet have transformed the way we live as well as postponing the day we die. There is no better time to be alive than now. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
TOEFL TWE
托福Test of Written English
1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The invention of the Internet has had negative effects on your civilization. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
2. Some people say that computers have made life more complex and stressful. What is your oinion? Used specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Technology had made the world a better place to live. Use specific reasons and examples to support your oinion.
4. Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think that access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examles to support your opinion.
5. The 21st century has begun. What changes do you think this new century will bring? Use examples and details in your answer.
