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题目 26 "Most people would agree that buildings represent a valuable record of any society's past, but controversy arises when old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purposes. In such situations, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation of historic buildings so that contemporary needs can be served."

提纲：
正：
the primary mission for af government is facilitating the development of the society and ensure its people a peaceful and carefree life. therefore, if the ground of an ancient building can be best used to fulfill this mission, it undoubtedly should give precedence to modern purposes. (population booming, scientific progressment, economic development)
反：
1. however, historic sites are not only an important record of a society's past, they are also a symbol of a culture, a remainder of the glories and faults in the history, an esteem to the precursors. (washington monument george washington war of indenpendence, free nation free people.   )
2. those ancient buildings are playing active roles in archaeology and anthropology. (Terra-Cotta Warriors)




正文：


It has long been debated that whether the preservation of historical sites should give way to modernization or not. While under some particular condition preservation of cultural relics is paled in front of social development, in most cases, the importance of inherit the ancient spot outweighs the contemporary needs.

The primary mission for a government is facilitating the development of society and ensuring its people a peaceful and carefree life. Therefore, if the ground of an ancient building can be best used to fulfill this mission, it undoubtedly should give precedence to modern purposes. As a status quo, our planet is experiencing population booming; witnessing the rapid progress of science. The location of some old buildings are a perfect site for scientific experiment, such as nuclear explosion, rocket launching, in this situation it is necessary even desirable for the old buildings to give place to modern purposes. Likely, when the world is swarmed with human beings and is in dire need of the ideal location of an old building, the abdication of historical sites will be of great merit and be highly honored. There are always some exceptional cases that we must sacrifice the ancient spots.

However, some historical sites are of much more significance than contemporary needs. They are not only an important record of a society's past, but also the symbol of a culture, a remainder of the glories and faults in the history, the esteem to the precursors. Their profound and crucial value cannot be replaced. Take the Washington Monument as an example. It is built for the purpose of remembering one of the greatest leaders in the United States of America -- George Washington. Beyond this, it also reminds the visitors of the War of Independence and those precursors who suffered and exchanged the triumph with their lives. What's more, it contains the spirit of America -- freedom. Washington Monument is so meaningful in the American people's heart that it can never be replaced, let along deconstructed.

Except the great spiritual value of historical sites, they are playing an active role in the spectrum of archaeology and anthropology. Through studying the ancient buildings, archaeologists can reappear the life in the past and provide us with a more detailed and specific history of our nation; at the same time, anthropologists can inform us with the human evolution process and supply other fields of science with useful messages, hence, stimulate the improvement of human society. For instance the Terra-Cotta Warriors in China. Its discovering astonished the world and to a great extend changed the understanding of Chinese history. The grand and splendor scene of the whole sits and the lively and diverse solider clays present the powerfulness and prosperousness of Qin Empire as well as the ordinary people's clothing and features in that dynasty.
These historic contributions cannot be obtained through written and oral records,

In conclusion, when dealing with the conflict between contemporary needs and preservation of cultural relics, modern planners should take the emergency and necessity of modern needs and the great significance and historical value of the old buildings into consideration, and makes his or her dicision prudently from case to case.