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北京考试 今天写的第一篇ISSUE56 当务之急与百年大计大家帮忙指导
为了字数和通用性 写了不少废话 当务之急与百年大计
56."Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future."
Whether governments focus more on solving the problems of today or trying to solve the problems of the future? The speaker favors the first approach. Although, to some extent, the statement is too extreme to overlook certain circumstances in which , on balance I tend to a
gree that focus more on solving the short-term problems instead of making efforts on the future problems.
On the one hand, some of the immediate problems are such considerable that cannot be delay. Such problems may worsen and finally prove fatal if not duly and properly dealt with. It is advisable to admit that this statement possesses some merits originally in our practicality-adored world today. The implicit rationale behind it accords with logic and common sense, hence, is partially unquestionable. When a not low proportion of people still are hungry or out of work or lack the skills needed to survive, the government turned a blind eye to their sufferings must pay a heavy price. When a severe earthquake struck the province of Sichuan in China, helpless people there buried under debris have no food, water and shelter supplies, we cannot image the situation that the Chinese government still focus on genetic science or space research, ignores the catastrophe. If it is a matter of life and death, it must be a matter no government can afford to ignore.
On the other hand, after a full realization of this issue, I have to point out my contention with the speaker, the claim amounts to an overstatement when it comes to the problems which are vital and valuable to the life and health of future generations. Turn to the DNA research for an instance. Thanks for studies of generations of scientists, nowadays, we succeed in DNA cutting, connecting, mutation and achieved some of our aims in DNA study now like clone and DNA drugs. Unless their efforts of researching, genetics diseases which cannot be discovered in time will harmful to our descendants. Moreover, it is a vision which amounts fantasy that the government can provide for all of its’citizens needs. This would postpone the anticipated problems of the future forever. H. W. Beecher once said that “we should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.” If the government totally ignores the long-term problems, it is bound to end up at criminals in period. Given the factors discussed above, which sometimes intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive, we can safely draw the conclusion that long-term research cannot be neglect if the society have such ability.
Admittedly, the key point of governments’ work varies from case to case. We should regard this issue from all different angles free from prejudice. To seek truth from facts, we must proceed from reality in all things, link theory with practice and hold practice to be the touchstone of truth. However, taking an isolated and quiescent view of dynamic and developing issue probably does not improve matters but engender adverse effects.
In sum, the issue of the central point governments’ work is a complex one, requiring subjective judgments about the order of importance and urgency of the problems. Consequently, there are no simple or certain answers. The world around us presents a seamless web, which interact in ways that can be understood only in the context of a variety of factors. In the final analysis, given finite economic and human resources and certain circumstances we are forced to strike a balance in how we allocate those resource.
