雅思大作文：科技与因特网

 雅思大作文常见的真题中，少不了有关于现代科技与电脑网路方面的话题。流行的写作题目也躲不过托福。雅思中国网关注雅思考古题与新题动向，本篇特别选出五道雅思真题并列托福五道类似题。如果雅思是我们的重点，兼读托福真题不会是缺点。往往真题中显出内容的来龙去脉，跑出来内容要点，提供破题的参考。
 
以下例句的灵感来自真题的激荡：请网友组句与试题的联想。

1. It has become another world, a different world.  
2. The arrival of the civilization's new-born kid, the Internet, has made history.  
3. We have entered into an electronic information age from the era B.C. (before computers).  
4. Looking back in the past only three decades ago, we feel like going back to the Iron Age.  
5. Looking back at a mere century ago, it seems as if returning to the Stone Age.  
6. 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.  
7. Just what changes this new century will bring may be everybody's guess.  
8. For better or for worse?

9. This new world has presented plenty of wonders.  
10. The Internet has connected people at every corner on the planet and beyond, as never before, without limits.  
11. Its by-device, the cell phone, is playing an increasingly important role in people's professional and social lives.  
12. Telecommuting may soon become a more common way of working as more people are doing part of their jobs from home.  
13. The new age is an E-age.  E-mail.  E-book.  E-bank.  E-class.  E-chat.  E-games.  And what not.  
14. Facebook, Twitter and blogs are also in full swing, among other social red activities.  
15. What's more.  Intelligent machines such as robots are widely applied to take the place of human beings.  16. Such are, in part, the powers of computers.

17. There are good reasons why some people are being worried.  
18. To them computers have made life more complex and stressful.  
19. People who cannot work with computers will be disadvantaged.  
20. The traditional skills and ways of life are fading away.  
21. At its best, easy access to so much information is doing as much harm as good.  
22. The more time people use the Internet, the less time they spend with real human beings.  
23. There is no disputing the danger of relying too much on computer screens rather than face-to-face contact.  24. And likely more potential problems are on the way.  
25. No wonder that many seem no closer to feeling happy in various respects.

26. It is the best of time; and it is the worst of time.  
27. To those who can fully enjoy the new benefits, there is no better time to be alive than now.  
28. Increased material wealth and improved technology have brought about that kind of convenience and comfort and confidence that money can buy.  
29. But so what? Instead of getting wiser, people are seeking knowledge, only to find themselves drowing in the sea of information.  
30. Although it seems that people have become more inventive, actually they have become less creative at the same time.  
31. The Internet can provide many solutions, yet no computer is so capable as to judge right from wrong.  
32. In the pursuit of happiness, we have begun to ask ourselves what on earth we are looking for.  
33. Doubts arise.  
34. One thing, however, is sure.  
35. There is no turning back.
 
写作练习：请将以上短句重新改写组合成250字到350字。没有用的字句消除。与主题有关的字句加以整理，搞出几个复杂句，复合句，甚至复合复杂句。写作不能全用简单句。句型力求变化。
 
真题举例：雅思五题。托福五题。

IELTS Writing Topics
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 communicating 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?
 
 
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