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发表于 2011-4-29 22:26:42 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

是这样,已经在月份考完了机考,突然决定去参加新加坡的海外考试.但是已经很久没有写ISSUE了,突然提笔发现已经句不成形.这里憋出来两段希望大家帮我看一看,抓一抓大错误,让我心里有点底.在此谢过大家,也希望你们人品爆发!!!

TOPIC: ISSUE103 - "The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."
WORDS: 428 TIME: 00:33:53 DATE: 2011/4/29 22:20:47
The speaker claims that the only value of studying history is that it's relevant to our daily lives. I fundemantaly disagree with the statement. To begin with, history is, to the contrary, poorly related to detailed daily lives. Moreover, the statement has underestimated other values with which the study of history is highly concerned.
Consider how the claim that the study of history provide instruction for our daily lives flies in the face of empirical evidence. I would be hard-pressed to identify any experience or historical event from which the analysis is directly related to our daily lives. In my experience as a student, my daily life is filled up with friendly conversation and interaction with professors and mates, as well as academic study. Therefore, according to the speaker, can I say that the study of history is of no value to me at all? Clearly not. Moreover, as the society is gradually evolving into one with rapid development of techonology, which finds no support from any historical record, history provides us even less value or benefits that is relevant to our daily lives.

However, the study of history is meritable beyond the extent provided by the speaker. First of all, history is the study of past events and trends, which equipped us with a better ability to comprehend the current situation. To understand why the Soviet Union reconstructed and collapsed into different parts, one need to know about the important incidents such as the Cold War which has indirectly lead to the fall; to know about the national conflict between Israel and Pakistan, one need to dig for rooted causes, such as religious factors. History helps one to form a rational perspective of the worldly issues, therefore provides us intellectual supports.
Secondly, all the lessons and experiences given by history inform us that mistakes should not be made again. From the study of history, information about the past events is gathered which instruct contemporaries to achieve far more so, than knowing nothing. In other words, history saves us time and effort, for it has taught us the wrong ways. For example, when the epidemic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome appeared in China in 2001, the government failed to acknowledge its potential impact on the society, hence officials decided not to release any news about the disease. Thousands people's lives could have been safed if precaution was given at that time. Learning from this lesson, when the H5N1 disease outbroke in China in 2009, the government immediately established plans for protection and immunition, which prevent serious outcome from happening.