为大家带来2012 年2月18日的托福写作真题：Technology makes our life too rich and some people say that we should live a simple life without technology. To what extent do you agree or disagree?该大作文为科技类话题，请看范文详情：
托福写作题目讲解
【话题分类与题型】
本题是新题，但与2009年2月12日的话题非常类似(详见“类似话题”第一道)。属于科技类话题，题型为同意与否(单观点)。科技类话题是雅思写作中的常考话题，但已很久未出现，上次考科技类话题是在2011年10月29日。
【话题评价】
雅思写作中，科技类的题库共有以下一些分支：1、通讯科技(如远程上班、教育)，2、现代传媒(电视、网络、手机、电子游戏)，3、机器替代人类。而今天的话题属于科技类相对最难的第4个分支，抽象类。抽象类的科技话题请参见“类似话题”的2-4题。
【类似话题】
1. Developments of technology are causing environmental problems. Some people think the solution is for everyone to accept a simpler life, while others believe that technology can solve these problems. Discuss both views and give your opinion. (090212)
2. Technological progress in the past century has its negative effect, despite its remarkable contribution. To what extent do you agree or disagree?(100227)
3. Some people believe that the range of technology available to individuals today is increasing the gap between the poor people and the rich people, while some others say this has an opposite effect. Discuss both views and give your opinion. (090110)
4. The development of technology changes the way people connect with each other. In which way does the development of technology change the types of relationships among people? Does it have positive or negative effects on the relationships?(090808)
【结构与思路】
本题的话题非常典型，错误的观点+理由(这道题目是理由在先，错误的观点在后)。这类题型的写法是一样的，采用单边型，先驳斥题目中的原因(科技会让生活变得更加复杂)，然后再讲执行错误观点(离开科技)会引发的后果。这类题型在雅思写作中有很多，写法都一致，建议大家做好准备。下面给大家举两道思考题，大家可以自己构思一下。
1. It is not necessary for students to go to school because more information is available on the Internet. Do you agree or disagree? (031122, 040131)
2. Some people believe that university students should pay all the cost of studies because university education only benefit the students themselves not the society as a whole. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (100731)
托福写作范文：
The development of modern technology has made people's life more complex, so people should choose to have a simple and easy life without using technology. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
The advancement of modern technology is making people's life more comfortable and at the same time less human. To those who enjoy the benefits of technology, there is no better time to be alive than now, but to others life has been increasingly complex and stressful. The issue is whether such new technological machines as computers and the Internet would be our servants forever or eventually could become our masters.
现代科技的发展使人们的生活更加复杂，所以人们应该选择简单而简单的生活而不使用科技。你在多大程度上同意或不同意?
给出你的答案的理由，并从你的知识或经验中包含相关的例子。
现代科技的进步使人们的生活更加舒适，同时也减少了人类的生活。对于那些享受科技带来的好处的人来说，现在是活着的最佳时机，但对其他人来说，生活变得越来越复杂和压力。问题在于，像电脑和互联网这样的新技术机器，究竟是我们的仆人，还是最终成为我们的主人。
All kinds of inventions made possible by technology are designed to be the slaves of human beings, if human beings are not to be slaved by machines. Once upon a time, we were plain people, but that was before we began having relationships with technological systems. By getting involved with computerized machines, we could not help changing the way we live and the way we work, for better or for worse It can be realized that life is more complex because much of modern technology is not born to meet primary human needs, and many "unnecessary" inventions are producing negative effects on a living style that used to be relatively simple. Thus, there is an overwhelming feeling of complexity in the sense that machines act like humans and humans act like machines. Now that "intelligent" machines such as robots are widely applied to take the place of human beings because they are capable of doing many useful jobs, although making many people jobless. Those who cannot work with computers are disadvantaged and therefore helpless while the traditional skills and simple ways of life are fading away, never to return again.
科技创造的各种发明都被设计成人类的奴隶，如果人类不被机器所奴役。从前，我们都是普通人，但那是在我们开始与技术系统建立关系之前。通过与计算机机器参与,我们不可能帮助改变我们的生活方式和我们的工作方式,不管是好是坏它可以意识到生活是更复杂的,因为现代技术是主要不是天生的满足人类的需求,和许多“不必要的”发明产生的负面影响是相对简单的生活方式。因此，从某种意义上说，有一种强烈的复杂性感，那就是机器像人类一样行动，人类就像机器一样。现在，像机器人这样的“智能”机器被广泛地应用于取代人类，因为他们有能力做许多有用的工作，尽管使许多人失业。那些不能使用电脑的人处于不利地位，因此当传统的技能和简单的生活方式逐渐消失，再也无法返回时，他们就会感到无助。
Technology has turned this world into a different one full of wonders, some of them being too good to be true. For example, mobile phone is playing an important role in our social and professional lives, whereas the Internet has connected people at every corner on the planet and beyond. As a consequence, telecommuting may soon become a more common way of working as more people are doing part of their jobs from home. And so what? Actually people are no closer to feeling happy in various respects because such technological developments are destroying many basic values of simple and easy lifestyles. Computers in particular have made life less emotional since the more time people use the Internet, the less time they spend with human beings.
科技已经把这个世界变成了另一个充满奇迹的世界，其中有一些太好了，不可能是真的。例如，移动电话在我们的社会和职业生活中扮演着重要的角色，而互联网在这个星球和其他地方的每个角落都连接着人们。因此，随着越来越多的人在家办公，远程办公可能很快成为一种更普遍的工作方式。所以什么?事实上，人们在不同的方面并不感到幸福，因为这样的科技发展正在摧毁许多简单而简单的生活方式的基本价值观。特别是电脑让人们的生活减少了，因为人们上网的时间越长，他们与人相处的时间就越少。
In sum, there are reasons to be worried about what will become of mankind as a whole facing an increasingly complex world in which they may enjoy all the conveniences of life and yet they do not feel any happier or wiser. Who knows that over-dependence on modern technology could not mean the beginning of the end of human sparks of creativity, spirit, compassion, love and understanding and other good things about a simple and easy life. In making people's lives more enjoyable but more complex, technology seems as if sending plenty of blessings from heaven as well as sending plenty of evils from hell.
总而言之，我们有理由担心人类会变成一个整体，面对一个日益复杂的世界，在这个世界里，他们可以享受生活的一切便利，但他们却没有感到更快乐或更聪明。谁知道对现代科技的过度依赖并不意味着人类创造力、精神、同情心、爱和理解以及其他简单而简单的生活的美好事物的终结的开始。在让人们的生活变得更有趣，但更复杂的过程中，科技似乎从天堂带来了大量的祝福，同时也从地狱中释放了大量的邪恶。
