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226. "People are mistaken when they assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems faced by their predecessors. This illusion is eventually dispelled with increased knowledge and experience."

人们错误地认为他们碰到的问题要比他们前辈来得更复杂和更具挑战性。这个错觉最终会随着知识和经验的积累而消失。


The speaker asserts that it is an illusion that people assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems face by their predecessors and at end it is dispelled due to the increased knowledge and experience. But in my point of view, I disagree this assertion as the following arguments.

For one thing, it is no doubt that with the rapid development of the technology, the society become more and more complex and the thing we faced in the daily life need more reflection from all the aspects.  Take the commercial field  for example. Before, the businessmen just need to compete with the local rivals or the ones from their own country, but the advent of the information times change that greatly, their vision need to be more far and wide--the company form the place far  away from them even influence their sales of product. Of course, to some merchants it  is both challenge and the opportunity, nevertheless they have to take more factor into  consideration and know more from all over the world. This trend also take place in the politics, international relationship is more complicated  due to the diversity of the world.

And this phenomenon was also reflected in the science. Deeper the scientists research , more abstruse they feel . To address the problem, the researchers combine knowledge of different subject. For example, in the medical industry, the experts need not only chemistry but also the gene research. The research on the gene has been connected to many of the other subjects, which has become the basis of the research relative to the biology for example in the food industry. The breakout  in astronomy need the effect from the physicist, and chemist to study the new material , experts on the computer. The times when Newton and Farady can go about their studying in isolated field would be back any more--that the problem faced by the people at present is indeed complex and challenging than that confront with their predecessors.

For another, accumulation of increased knowledge and experience do not mean that people can perceive the problem is simpler. If compare the knowledge that humans has master to a circle, with the circle expanding humans would touch more and more unknown things outside the circle. After the first time human beings walk on the surface of the moon, people realize how mysterious and variable the space is and exploration to the myth is endless. Maybe one day the humans consider not only the factors of the Earth but also the influences from the outside of the Earth.

In sum, we have to admit that the complexity of problem is increasing, of course, it should blind us from  that fact our ability to solve the problem enhances at the same time.

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Is any sense that the problems we face are more complex and challenging than those which our predecessors faced merely an illusion-one that can be dispelled by way of knowledge and experience? The speaker believes so, although I disagree. In my view, the speaker unfairly generalizes about the nature of contemporary problems, some of which have no analog from earlier times and which in some respects are more complex and challenging than any problems earlier societies ever confronted. Nevertheless, I agree that many of the other problems we humans face are by their nature enduring ones that have changed little in complexity and difficulty over the span of human history; and I agree that through experience and enlightened reflection on human history we grow to realize this fact.

I turn first to my chief point of contention with the statement. The speaker overlooks certain societal problems unique to today’s world, which are complex and challenging in ways unlike any problems that earlier societies ever faced. Consider three examples. The first involves the growing scarcity of the world’s natural resources. An ever-increasing human population, together with over-consumption on the part of developed nations and with global dependencies on finite natural resources, has created uniquely contemporary environmental problems that are global in impact and therefore pose political and economic challenges previously unrivaled in complexity.

A second uniquely contemporary problem has to do with the fact that the nations of the world are growing increasingly interdependent-politically, militarily, and economically. Interdependency makes for problems that are far more complex than analogous problems for individual nations during times when they were more insular, more self-sustaining, and more autonomous.

A third uniquely contemporary problem is an outgrowth of the inexorable advancement of scientific knowledge, and one that society voluntarily takes up as a challenge. Through scientific advancements we’ve already solved innumerable health problems, harnessed various forms of physical energy, and so forth. The problems left to address are the ones that are most complex and challenging-for example, slowing the aging process, replacing human limbs and organs, and colonizing other worlds in the event ours becomes inhabitable. In short, as we solve each successive scientific puzzle we move on to more challenging and complex ones.

I turn next to my points of agreement with the statement. Humans face certain universal and timeless problems, which are neither more nor less complex and challenging for any generation than for preceding ones. These sorts of problems are the ones that spring from the failings and foibles that are part-and-parcel of human nature. Our problems involving interpersonal relationships with people of the opposite sex stem from basic differences between the two sexes. The social problems of prejudice and discrimination know no chronological bounds because it is our nature to fear and mistrust people who are different from us. War and crime stem from the male aggressive instinct and innate desire for power. We’ve never been able to solve social problems such as homelessness and hunger because we are driven by self-interest.

I agree with the statement also in that certain kinds of intellectual struggles-to determine the meaning of life, whether God exists, and so forth-are timeless ones whose complexities and mystery know no chronological bounds whatsoever. The fact that we rely on ancient teachings to try to solve these problems underscores the fact that these problems have not grown any more complex over the course of human history.

And, with respect to all the timeless problems mentioned above I agree that knowledge and experience help us to understand that these problems are not more complex today than before. In the final analysis, by studying history, human psychology, theology, and philosophy we come to realize that, aside from certain uniquely contemporary problems, we face the same fundamental problems as our predecessors because we face the same human condition as our predecessors whenever we look in the mirror.

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这是一篇北美范文，打上来就是想让大家借鉴借鉴！！！当然了，我们要想在那45分钟里写出这么神乎其神的文章几乎是不可能的，因为这是人家北美的专家写的，况且也不是在规定时间里完成。只是给大家一个写文章时候的感觉，尽量能更多地贴近美国人写的作文。不让我们的文章显得那么突兀，以看就是Asian's。
注：上面范文出自Mark Alan Stewart,J.D.

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楼主的文章看起来还可以，有些细节注意得不够，有不少的单词和语法错误，字数显得少了点儿！！！而且，在说理的时候，用的语言好像既不地道也不够professional。
希望楼主下次再写的话，先敲到word里改一改再拿上来！！！

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这天关了搜索功能沉的我都找不到我的贴了，都不知道被改了，真的很感谢～～～～