曾几何时，我们都一直在迷恋科技的进步，也一直在说科技能使生活变得更简单，但事实上真的是这样吗?SAT写作中曾有过这样的一个题目，这个题目放在现在来看也并不显得过时，这篇SAT满分范文的主要背景是科技承诺可以让我们的生活变得更简单，让我们有更多的时间来实现休闲上的需要。但是实际上从来没有停止过的科技新发明的快速步伐和电脑瞬间处理程序的能力让我们的生活更加的匆忙。现在我们只能接受这种原本是要让我们的生活更加简单的机械不间断的节奏，导致的后果就是无论是在工作和休息中，人们都不觉得生活变得更好了。下面就给大家提供这篇满分作文，希望大家能从文中的内容角度和写作技巧角度多多观察和学习。
Official Guide: Practice Test 2
Technology promises to make our lives easier, freeing up time for leisure pursuits. But therapid pace of technological innovation and the split second processing capabilities ofcomputers that can work virtually nonstop have made all of us feel rushed. We have adoptedthe relentless pace of the very machines that were supposed to simplify our lives, with theresult that, whether at work or play, people do not feel like their lives have changed for thebetter.
Adapted from Karen Finucan, “Life in the Fast Lane”
Assignment: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better? Planand write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your positionwith reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
Sample Essay - Score of 6
Throughout time mankind has strived to make his life easier. Whether it be throughtechnology, science, or theories of social interaction every generation has made onecontribution. From the idea of crop rotation to the cellular telephone mankind hasadvanced. It can be argued however, that not all of these advancements were beneficial.Many times people are accused of “taking the easy way out”, something that is looked downupon in today’s society.
Consider, if you will, ancient Grecian Society. With hardly any of the technological orscientific advancements we have today, they were able to produce some of the greatestthinkers of all time. Socrates and Plato still influence modern philosophical thought. Inaddition, these men were well versed in all disciplines. They were thinkers, mathematicians,writers, scientists, artists and much more. Examine some other great men in history. LeonardoDa Vinci was one of the greatest scientists and also one of the greatest artists of all time, heeven invented and drew up early plans for the helicopter. These ancient men, without thetechnology and ease of life we have today, were able to produce some of the most prolificadditions to human knowledge ever.
Now let us examine some men from our time. Bill Gates, while adding immensely to thepleasures and ease of man’s life, did so only by forcefully destroying many fledgling companiesand completely undermining our capitalistic market place. Very very few men in our time areleaders in more than one discipline. There are no scientists/artists or writer/mathematicians.Men, while being able to more deeply delve into a discipline, are now restricted to it. Iattribute this to technology. We now have a life outside of our work. A life with computers,cars, movies, and dinner with the family from across the country. Mankind can no longer devotehimself to his work. He has his work life, and his home life. While a cell phone allows me to talkto anyone from anywhere, it prevents me from being alone and fully concentrating.
While the internet allows me to look at websites from around the world, it prevents me fromdoing the work I set out to do. While technology and science have made man’s life easier, theyhave not made it better. Man has become less productive and less devoted, partly, as a resultof this newfound ease of life. Therefore, What makes our lives easier does not necessarily makethem better.
看过这篇优美的写作经典范文，同学们可能发现了自己的差距，但是，有差距不要紧，就怕自己明知道差距还不努力追赶，为了自己的人生不留遗憾，为了明天美利坚升起的太阳，大家还是要努力克服自己的懒惰，多背多记多看，学英语没有什么好方法，无非重复二字。最后，还是要点题，少数人服从多数人这个观点有时往往是错的，当大多数人选择走千军万马走独木桥时，你却一人孤身站立在SAT的考场上，能否笑傲江湖，全凭君决定。
