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Technology made a better place to live, do you agree?

Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist of the 20th century, famously commented," I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". The quotation serves as an apt description of the destructive forces of the progress of mordern techology. And these days, some people still claim that technology has made the world a better place to live. Actually, I can not gree with that.

First of all, with the development of the technology, people pursue more and more high-standard of living. In order to meet their aspiration for luxurious houses, cars and food, various problems of environment had been caused. For example, modern industries, automobiles, and home life rely on fossil fuels as the major sources of energy. The burning of these fossil fuels releases a wide sundry of halmful chemicals, such as carbon dioxide. The increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to the global warming, which must be one of the most serious problem our whole world facing. In additon, other problems like acid rain, deforestation and desertification are becong much more severe. All of these inflicted heavy damages.

Environment problem is by no means a single result caused by the technology. So much internet problem can  be another adverse consequences. For instance, computer virus, which is a malicious computer problem that speards form computer to computer, have negative even disastrous impacts on data and software. Viruses can delete or change files, steal important information, load and run unexpected applications ,take up computer memory, and even result in system paralysis.

Furthermore, the advancement of techology also made people lazier than before. They do not analyse the problem, but Just accept it form TV, broadcast and other media instead.

All in all, we should not only see the high-speed development of techology, and we should also see the negetive consquences caused by the technology. The problem of envrioment, Computer Crime and other conquenses must arouse our attention. Government and other department must take some measure to decrease those harmful influence, and every one of us should make affort to make our world a real better place to live.


[ 本帖最后由 pickangel 于 2007-12-15 22:51 编辑 ]

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难道这就是传说中的5.1分范文?!一定要背的!!!

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么阿?

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么阿?

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不错~~
well done!

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全文通改了一遍(450字),问题摘要:

第1段
1)Quotation之后的那几句合并了。
第2段
1)改用排比:gorgeous houses, luxurious cars and delicious food
2)Aspiration不妥
3)最后阐述两项子问题,carbon dioxide 和 sulfur dioxide。
第3段
1)开头第一句话就错,原文:Environment problem is by no means a single result caused by the technology。翻译:环境问题决非由技术导致的单一结果。应是:Environment problem is by no means the only result that is caused by technology.
2)鉴于照应上一段,本段开头的过渡采取了一个非通用的办法,仅供参考。以一个虚拟与现实的对照引发下文
3)不是unexpected而是undesirable
第4段
1)太短,不谐调,干脆删
末段
1)用两句话总括2,3段(划线部分)
2)末句也重写
另外,注意拼写,我发现总有人把modern拼成mordern,为什么?发音时乱卷舌!

Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist of the 20th century, famously commented," I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". Though his quotation provided us with a vivid description about his concern with destructive forces brought with progress of modern technologies, there are still no less people claiming that the technology, compared with its negative effects, did have made the world a better place to live. For my part, I can not agree with the latter opinion.

First of all, a basic reason for which we keep pushing forward the development of technology is that a higher life standard has been being pursued by us human beings. In order to meet our endless needs for gorgeous houses, luxurious cars and delicious food, various environment problems have been caused. For example, modern industries, transportation, and even daily life in apartments have to rely on fossil fuels as a major energy source. However, the acquirement for energy from those fossil fuels can be always accompanied with harmful exhausted emission, among of which two chemicals, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, are particularly notable for their destructive effects. The increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have led to global warming, one of the most serious problem the world has ever been faced with. For the latter, sulfur dioxide, it is considered as a determining factor resulting in some other environmental problems like acid rain, which can not only directly inflict damage onto creatures and architectures, but also further aggravate deforestation and desertification.

Other than environment problem visible in real world, we should also notice the problems now pervasively existing in our virtual world, the Internet, a cyber space which was exclusively created by modern information technology. For instance, computer virus, a malicious computer program that can spread over the Internet or other media and infect the computer it intruded, can engender disastrous impacts on data saved in target computer. It may delete or change files, steal secret information, load and run undesirable applications, and even result in system paralysis.

All in all, though admitting the benefits modern technologies has brought us did make our lives more convenient and comfortable, we should also pay greater attention to those negative consequences. Modern industries are not supposed to destroy our homeland; Information highway should not be used as new venue when criminals get tired with being chased by enforcers in real world. In my view, our government and other parties concerned must take more feasible and forceful measures to eliminate those malicious influences, and every individual should as well make his own effort to prevent our application of technology to lives from derailing.

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万分感谢!

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回复 #1 pickangel 的帖子

绝对是是我的学生。第一段Einstein的话看起来是那么的亲切和熟悉。

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原文:Environment problem is by no means a single result caused by the technology。
应是:Environmental problems are by no means the only results of modern technology.
要简洁;注意单复数,因为不只一种环境问题。

[ 本帖最后由 shiyu 于 2007-12-19 02:15 编辑 ]

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