雅思作文真题范文：21世纪人们的生活质量比以往要更高吗？

People living in 21st century have a better life quality than the people who lived in the previous centuries. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

审题与解析

虽然俄乌战争依然在进行，新冠疫情依然在持续，但只要一说到我们这个世纪，我们多数人都会一脸自豪地说：生活在这个世纪，我们是多么幸运！

那么，当这个话题出现在雅思写作中时，我们该如何回答？

显然，很多同学会毫不迟疑地写道：我100%同意，生活在当今世纪，生活质量比上几个世纪要高。然后列出诸多理由，比如：我们现在有飞机、高铁，想去哪里旅游就去哪里旅游；我们有电脑、网络，信息获取和发送就在指尖；我们高级的医疗技术和医疗条件，身体越来越健康；我们有全球化，可以享受世界各地的食物和产品，生活越来越丰富......

无疑，这样构思是符合题意的，但很难获得高分（除非语言表达好得上天），因为这样的构思没有体现出Task Response里面的批判思维。

事实上，即使你列出100条21世纪的好处，也无法合理地直接导出绝对的结论：今天的生活质量比以前好。因为，很明显：21世纪的确在某些方面提高了我们的生活，但在其他方面，我们的生活质量其实下降了。

比如：

• 21世纪生活节奏加快了，我们生活在更大的竞争压力之下，其结果是，即使物质生活质量提高了，但付出的代价是心理的健康和幸福感；

• 21世纪城市化进程在全球的深化，让我们享受城市里的各种便利，但由此带来的城市拥挤、环境污染问题也让我们苦不堪言。

因此，我们的结论是：和生活在以往世纪的人们相比，生活在21世纪，我们的确在物质生活的方方面面都得到了极大提高，但与此同时，我们也得承受心理压力加大，环境日渐恶化的代价。因此，我并不完全同意题目给出的观点。

高分范文

Many claim that people living in this century are most fortunate because they enjoy a better life than those living in any previous ages. To my mind, this is only partly true.

It is certainly right to say that our material life quality today is much higher than those living in preceding centuries. With the development of cheap flights and fast train, we can now travel to any places in the world in one single day, and with computing technologies and the Internet so readily available, all the information we need and friends we want to contact are just a click away from us. Besides, we are now enjoying a much longer life than ever before, due to the advanced medicine and medical services.

Yet this is not to say that all these benefits have come without a price.  As the pace of modern life becomes increasingly quick, many people find themselves living under greater pressure. Unlike their predecessors in old times who lived in the same places and did the same jobs all through their lives, they keep shifting from one job to another, or moving from one city to  another so that they are living with the perpetual anxiety to learn new things, thus greatly affecting their psychological well-being.

One more price contemporary people have to pay is the environment. The 21st century has witnessed the  deepening of urbanization throughout the world, which has brought people benefits such as the convenient supermarkets, the improved education and transport, but also urban problems unheard of in previous centuries, such as crowds, filthiness, noises, and above all, the deteriorating environment.

To conclude, living today is indeed a lucky thing, yet it is quite an overstatement to say that we enjoy a 100