雅思大作文范文：我们的生活更好嘛？

雅思大作文题目：

People living in the twenty-first century generally have a better quality of life than people who lived in previous centuries. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

高分范文

In the past century, human society has achieved unprecedented technological progresses, by which, from my perspective, the standard of living for average persons has been greatly bettered.

解析

这题的写作范围比较大，相对而言给大家降低了跑题的风险，只要大家以“今昔对比”去写，语法细节上注意描写过去的情况时，用一般过去时。“今昔对比”的题上，其实内核还是万变不离其中，也是最近出题的话题核心——科技。

unprecedented adj. 空前的

better vt. 改善，改进

Admittedly, technological advancement has posed a threat to human’s well-being to some extent. To illustrate, people, especially young children and teenagers, nowadays easily get indulged in or even addicted to hi-tech gadgets, spending hours playing video games and using social media, while they usually neglect their real life and thus lack face-to-face interaction with their families and friends. This, in the long term, may incur feelings of loneliness and isolation. More accurately, those people are basing their sense of self-esteem on the number of ‘hearts’ and followers, and once the count is below their expectation, they may feel frustrated or even have a negative view on themselves. Meanwhile, collapsing in front of the screen all day with snacks in hand, people nowadays are more likely to suffer from declining level of health, such as corpulence or obesity, while people in the past, without such siren calls, allocated more time to accompanying their beloved ones and *elling the roses.

解析

让步+反驳：沉迷网络，给身心带来消极影响

pose a threat to v. 造成威胁

get indulged in v. 沉溺于

get addicted to v. 上瘾于

neglect vt. 忽视

self-esteem n. 自尊心

frustrated adj. 沮丧的

collapse vi. 瘫坐

orpulence n. 臃肿

*ell the roses 亲近自然

However, the aforementioned demerits can actually be avoided as long as people have fostered the sense of self-discipline, which indicates that behind today’s life is a silver lining. In effect, the cutting-edge technology has enabled netizens to not only spice up their social life through speedy interaction among other cyber users but also facilitate cultural, business and academic exchanges through sundry online platforms, regardless of geographic distance or accidents and incidents popping up in the real life. A typical example is that international students can attend the online courses offered by world-renowned universities without stepping in the campus thousands of miles away and concerning about the gravity of pandemics. Besides, video game producers have also developed new products regarding intellectual progresses and physical fitness. Moreover, medical and biological breakthroughs have cured more diseases, improved the patients’ quality of life, and increased life expectancy. All of those cannot be imagined by people living in previous centuries.

解析

立论：和上段对应，一一反驳，同时带过其他方面的好处

foster vt. 培养

self-discipline n. 自律

silver lining n. 一线希望

spice up v. 增添趣味

sundry adj. 各种各样的

gravity n. [局势]严重性

intellectual progress n. 智力发展

In a nutshell, people nowadays do enjoy a more convenient and comfortable life than those in the past did owing to the astonishing technological advances.

解析

重申观点