仿写剑桥雅思：Change

  仿写剑桥雅思：Change
IELTS Writing Task 2
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》剑桥雅思真题：
 
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
 
Some people prefer to spend their lives doing the same things and avoiding changes.  Others, however, think that change is always a good thing.  Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
 
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
 
》仿写实验范文。Recreated by Jeenn Lee Hsieh。Modeled after an essay prepared by an IELTS examiner as an example of a very good answer.  However, please note that the examiner's original essay (not copied here) is just one example out of many possible approaches.
 
 
猫头鹰议论文：
 
Change, as progress, may not always be a good thing, but we could not possibly stop change from coming. Whether we like it or not, change happens.  It seems that, any change, even a change for the better, is sometimes accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
 
In general, progress is positive.  This has been driven by technological and scientific breakthroughs that are changing the whole way we view the world on an almost daily basis.  Indeed, over the last half century the pace of change in the life of human beings has increased beyond our wildest expectations.  From the Industrial Revolution to the present Information Age, human beings have been benefitting from such changes in life as never before seen.  Inevitably, it is a different world, probably one that is better economically and socially than any time in the past.  If nothing else, life has become more enjoyable and labor less strenuous.
 
However, that change is inevitable is not the same as assuming that 'change is for the better'.  Unfortunately, it is not always the case that new things are promoted because they have good impacts for the majority of people.  For instance, a lot of innovations are made with the aim of making money for a few.  Altogether, it seems as if everything we gain, we lose something else; and everything we lose, we gain something else.  True enough, change always comes bearing gifts; nevertheless, we have reasons to doubt if some of those gifts were not directly from hell.  It is because all changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy as what we have left behind us is a cherished part of ourselves.
 
All things considered, we are obliged to welcome change as our rule because there is nothing wrong with change as long as it is in the right direction.  Given that all progress does not necessarily have good outcomes, we cannot prevent the world from changing. Since change is the only constant, the only institution which rejects progress is perhaps the cemetery. (Essay recreated by OWL)