model essay-issue 109

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33) As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and mysterious.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.


109)Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us. Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realised.

Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.

这道题的两个观点一个认为科学发现使我们对世界的认识加深，另一个认为科学展示了一个比我们想象中更复杂的世界。这道题的关键在于我们是谁，对于不同的人，科学的意义是不同的。一般来说，科学对于普通大众来说就是真理或者各种问题的完美答案；然而科学家们却知道科学充满了不确定性，每一次科学的突破都是对之前理论成果的修正甚至颠覆。由此可见，不同的身份和视角会产生完全不同的观感。

Do advances in scientific researches help us better understand the world we live in? Or are we increasingly perplexed by the new scientific knowledge constructed by the research community? The answers to these questions would depend on which groups of people we are talking about here. For the general public, science has provided solutions and resolved puzzles about the world we live in and enabled us to understand events in the world with confidence.  For the scientific researchers, however, science is far less certain and settled, creating more complex puzzles than anyone can possibly solve completely.  
开头先用问句的形式复述题目的主要意思 然后明确指出答案取决于哪一类人群
主旨句：对于大众来说，科学使我们有信心的理解这个世界解决各种疑惑；而对于科学家来说，科学不断的提出新的难题，呈现出一个复杂而神秘的世界


There is no doubt that science has offered plausible explanations to many phenomena and events which used to confuse and intimidated people in the past. Take germ theory for example. Before the advent of germ theory, human beings did not understand why they got sick and often came up with bizarre theories and treatments which did more harm than good. Germ theory has greatly advanced our understanding of how and why people caught different diseases and more effective therapies had been developed as a result.  Likewise, the discovery of relativity theories have enabled human beings to better understand how mass can be converted to nuclear energy.  Such insights not only helped us to learn more about how energy was generated in the sun. They also created new opportunities for us to harness nuclear energy.  

这一段主要讲自然科学让公众了解更多 具体举例是医学上的细菌理论和相对论与核物理。

In addition to natural science, social sciences also brought the public many new knowledge about how the society worked. Microeconomic theories, for example, have been developed to explain and predict human behaviours in a wide range of contexts.  Through the quantitative analysis of a large amount of data about drivers’ behaviours before and after the introduction seatbelt laws, economists have learned that while seatbelt laws may provided extra protection for drivers and passengers, more pedestrians had been killed as drivers tended to drive less cautiously with the protection of seat belts.  Such insights from social science carry important implications for the relevant social and legal policies and contributed to our understanding of the society.  

科学还包括社会科学 还是上面的论点 换成经济学的例子 建议大家读点曼昆吧 很有用的

While theoretical insights from both natural and social sciences have greatly advanced the public understanding of the natural world and the human society, the frontier researchers in sciences are far less certain about the world as they know it. When it comes to the cutting-edge research areas, the well-established theories may not be very useful in explaining the empirical observations. For example, theoretical physicists have long struggled to unify the theory of general relativity that offers elegant explanation for the world at the macro level with the theory of quantum mechanics that is more applicable to the micro world.  Economists also find it difficult to explain why free markets could fail soundly to rescue the developed world from periodic financial crisis and why less liberal economies such as China seem to be more robust than its more democratic counterparts like India.  To explain the empirical observations that may challenge the existing theories, scientists have to search for new theories constantly and be prepared to be challenged with even more empirical data.

中间第三段讲科学家面临的困惑
一个是相对论与量子力学之间的矛盾 好吧 我是道听途说的 另一个是经济学家面临的市场失灵及中国经济为什么如此强等等

In conclusion, as members of the general public, we are lucky to live in this scientifically and technologically advanced world where most phenomena can be adequately explained by experts in the respective scientific fields. But members of the scientific research community have a long way to go for developing a set of comprehensive theories that can settle most, if not all, puzzles in the world.




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