[寫作班] 托福第17週 andies, 2
2. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Technology has made
the world a better place to live. Use specific reasons and examples to
support your opinion.
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Depending on different point of views, the effects made by technology are
interpreted to be either beneficial or harmful to human beings. In my
opinion, I do not agree with that technology has made the world a better
place to live considering the weaken relations among people and environmental
issues that result from technology promotion we face nowadays.
First of all, although technology indeed brings much convenience in daily
modern life such as the Internet or mobile phones speeding up the data
exchanging and communication cross nations, people feel less and less happy
due to their rush steps everyday as well as poorer relationship with friends
and family. Rush steps press people to give up leisure hours to take exercise
or to get along with family and friends, which makes human beings being more
like a working machine or a robot, and ignoring their spiritual needs. Minds
that lack of spirit cannot bring neither happiness nor a better life.
Moreover, increasing concerns on resource shortage and global warming which
all torment people with lower life qualities tell that technology has not
made a better place for living. More flouring technology is developed; more
natural resources are consumed in an extremely rapid way. In other words, the
technology created by people also destroys the environment in which we live
tremendously. Issues on highly rising gas prices, climate change, for
example, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and extreme weathers such as long-term
high temperature results in abnormal ocean currents and melting Antarctica
ice shelf all threaten people suffering from oil shortage, rising sea levels,
and unpredictable danger from extreme weathers. No matter how many advantages
technology provides, it is not possible to have a safe and better place to
live when people are threatened by those disasters mentioned above.
To sum up, even technology brings some developments for people’s life; we
cannot eliminate the harm it makes. Safety, the most fundamental demand for
human beings, has already been menaced by highly developed technology.
Besides, in hi-tech era, living a fast-paced life makes less and less leisure
time being available for people to relax and to maintain friendship.
Regarding too many negative aspects resulted from promoting technology, I do
not think that technology provides a better environment to live.
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