People can now live and work at anywhere because of improved communication technology and transport.

To what extent do you think its advantages outweigh its disadvantages?

Thanks to the development of modern technology. People living in the contemporary world can live and work everywhere they intend with the helping of developed transport and communication technology.

The improved technologies in communication and transport do give us a lot of help without any doubt, the air-crafts facilitate us a lot when we travel around the world just serves as such an example. Also the pervading of mobile phones makes it easier for people to communicate with each other all over the world. What's more, the railway and high-speed roads supply us with convenient and comfortable transport approaches.

However, paralleled with such beneficial trends are points which have an adverse effect? One is that the air pollution and climate change are caused by the using of cars and air-crafts. And another one is that chatting online or with phones cannot replace the face-to-face chatting, the wide-scale use of mobile phones and internet may cause the decrease of people's communication time and finally result in the indifferent of citizens. What's more, chatting on line squanders a variety of time for study or work, which does harm to the economy development.

In the final analysis, it seems that both advantages and disadvantages would be caused by the improving of communication and transport, but takes the Pros and cons into consideration; I tend to agree that the advantages outnumber the disadvantages

第二篇：雅思大作文范文：艺术投资

政府投资：

1. Some people argue that the government should spend money on public

services and facilities, but not on the arts. Do you agree or disagree?

[Sample]:

The role of arts in modern life is unique, providing people with entertainment and yielding various psychological rewards, such as relief from stress. Despite these benefits, the arts have been taken as luxury goods in many cases. It is suggested that public money of a city should be concentrated in projects like public facilities, which are more likely to bring immediate benefits to the public, rather than the arts. There are a number of facts indicating that this position is right.

Public facilities, widely accepted as one of the main precursors to a city’s development, should be one of the highest priorities. Those underdeveloped cities in particular, should direct sufficient funding toward public facilities. While municipal office buildings, courthouses and post offices are essential components of public services, libraries, hospitals, parks, playing fields, gymnasiums and swimming pools are available to the public for social, educational, athletic and cultural activities. By boosting spending on public facilities, cities are more capable to satisfy the needs of citizens and improve their standard of living.

In addition to social benefits, there are economic merits that public facilities can offer to communities. An integrated transport network (maritime, land and inland waterways transport and civil aviation), for example, promises the smooth and speedy movement of goods and people in a city. Industrial products, as well as agricultural produce of a city, can be delivered to other cities in exchange for steady income. Of equal importance are public Internet facilities. It is no exaggeration to say that entrepreneurs, either from home or abroad, will first examine the infrastructure of a city before deciding whether to pursue business opportunities there.

The arts, by comparison, although enabling people to see the world and the human condition differently and to see a truth one might ignore before, do not merit government spending. The first reason is that the arts – referring to music, film and literature altogether – are more likely to attract the investment of the private sector than public facilities. Business people continue to invest in the arts in the expectation of earning lump sum income and the arts in return, continue to flourish without the government spending. Meanwhile, the arts are a key component of a culture and naturally passed down from one generation to another. Unlike public facilities, they require no money to survive.

It is therefore clear that construction of public facilities should be given the

foremost consideration. The concern about the well-being of individual citizens and that of a city is more acute than the apprehension about the survival and prospects of the arts, something that business have a stake in与…利害攸关.