GMAT ISSUE类作文范文-101

Topic:

The automobile has caused more problems than it has solved. Most societies would probably be much better off if the automobile had never been invented.

Instructions:

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.

Sample Essay

The speaker claims that most societies would be better off without the invention of the automobile. Granted, automotive transportation has imposed tremendous costs on society. Nevertheless, I disagree with the stated opinion, for the automobile has produced even greater benefits.

Admittedly, automobiles create serious social problems. Highway vehicles are responsible for a large share of the carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other toxic emissions that pollute our air. Moreover, chemical gasoline additives designed to reduce air pollution have resulted in unexpected ground and water contamination. Debilitating and often fatal pollution-related respiratory diseases are causing health-care costs to skyrocket. Similarly rising are the costs of auto accident-related injuries and deaths, which emergency room personnel claim amount to an epidemic. In addition, crowded urban areas now experience the psychological phenomenon of road rage, which often leads to assault injuries and deaths. And, out-of-use vehicles are unsightly litter in front yards, junkyards and the countryside.

However, automobile use is not the sole factor leading to these problems and their associated costs . Overpopulation another contributing cause; if there were fewer people, and fewer people with cares, the problems mentioned above would be less severs as well. But given the current global population explosion it is difficult to imagine very many things in society functioning at all without automotive transportation.

The most general benefit of the automobile is increased mobility, which in turn provides for the efficient delivery of emergency services, medical supplies, housing materials, fresh food and other important goods to large numbers of people. Moreover, the automobile contributes to the employment picture in two ways: the industry provides many jobs, and people also provides other benefits, like recreation and convenience, that are not quite in the category of basic needs. But their importance should not be underestimated. Recreation contributes significantly to quality of life and wellbeing. And sheer convenience opens up possibilities for the realization of many additional goods, like helping those in need.

In conclusion, the invention of the automobile was indeed a mixed blessing. But the benefits of automotive technology outweigh its harms, particularly in a heavily populated world.

 

GMAT ISSUE类作文范文-102

Topic:

An advanced degree may help someone get a particular job. Once a person begins working, however, the advanced degree and the formal education it represents are rarely relevant to success on the job.

Instructions:

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.

Sample Essay

The stated opinion is vague, with no clear meaning for “sharing power I strongly disagree with the speaker’s opinion that earning an advanced degree is rarely relevant to success on the job. Granted there are many technical disciplines that experience rapid” information turnover,” leaving specific information acquired in one’s graduate or professional program quickly outdated. Nonetheless, there are many features of advanced formal education that will contribute to success both on and off the job throughout one’s lifetime.

To begin with, even in such areas as computer science, where it is estimated that much of what a student learns today will be obsolete in just five years, an advanced degree and the education, which is divided into a number of small education units every term, post-baccalaureate education is concentrated on deeper learning in fewer areas. Mover, most graduate education requires extended, critical focus on complex issues or research projects. And even if the technical information relevant to completing a graduate-level project becomes outmoded, the learned critical methods and problem-solving approaches will not.

This is because such methods and approaches require ability in creative and logical thinking. It takes significant interpretative and analytical skill to successfully learn a body of complex material or research a difficult issues. Moreover, developing a sophisticated research project or solving a complex technical problem require those skills plus the abilities to creatively envision alternatives, and logically rule out all but the best ones.

Finally, it takes discipline and persistence to complete an advanced degree. Because of the sheer scope and complexity of the material, issues and problems studied at the graduate level, it is not easy to bring a thesis or research project to completion. Giving up is a constant temptation. Those who succeed demonstrate traits of character that will serve them for a lifetime.

In conclusion, earning an advanced degree will be an element in most people’s success on the job, even though the information they learn in graduate or professional school may become obsolete. Advacedstudy fosters important reasoning and problem-solving skills, as well as character traits like discipline and persistence. These skills and traits cannot help but contribute to personal success.

 

GMAT ISSUE类作文范文-103

Topic:

Most people today place too much emphasis on satisfying their immediate desires. The overall quality of life would be greatly improved if we all focused instead on meeting our long-term needs.

Instructions:

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.

Sample Essay

The speaker claims that the overall quality of life would be better if people would resist satisfying immediate desires and focus on long-term needs. I tend to agree. Common examples related to health and financial security serve as an apt basis for my agreement.

To begin with, long-term good health is necessary to optimal quality of life. Even so, there are those who use tobacco or abuse substances, fully understanding the dire health consequences of such behaviors. In addition, many people have existing health problems that can be alleviated or eliminated with proper nutrition and exercise, yet persist in enjoyable but unhealthy habits. Less dramatically, many of us lack the discipline to invest one half hour, three times a week, in sustained aerobic exercise that can slow the aging process and contribute to improved health.

Secondly, a good quality of life requires long-term financial security. Yet, in our consumerist society, far too many people spend money they should be saving or investing, just to own the latest technological toy or go on a dream vacation. Worse yet, other will use credit, spending money they don’t even have, to gratify immediate desires for consumer products, recreation or entertainment. In all cases, they are literally stealing from their own future wealth and security in order to seize short-term satisfaction. Financial worry, delayed retirement and even impoverished old age are common outcomes in such scenarios.

Finally, immediate gratification on the part of some can diminish the quality of life for others. Family and friends suffer from a loved one’s ill-health or financial instability . And careful, disciplined people end up giving away some of their wealth, though taxation, in order to subsidize public programs for those who have traded immediate gratification for poverty or ill-health.

In conclusion, the stated opinion is correct; we would all be better off in the long run if more people chose to forego satisfaction of current desires. Of course, not every detriment to quality of life is an outcome of personal choice. But a great many problems do result from undisciplined seeking of instant gratification.

 

GMAT ISSUE类作文范文-104

Topic:

The value of any nation should be measured more by its scientific and artistic achievements than by its business successes.

Instructions:

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.

Sample Essay

It is tempting to concede the speaker’s opinion that achievements in art and science are more significant to the worth of a nation than its “mere” business successes. Still, I disagree with the view because it overlooks the several ways that commercial success supports artistic accomplishment and scientific progress. It also ignores the extent to which commercial success renders a nation more secure, and better able to promote human rights and political stability throughout the world.

First of all, art and science have always depended upon the patronage of successful business. Consider Italy’s powerful banking clan, the Medici family, and their support for artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael. Substantial scientific and artistic support now comes from foundations established by extraordinarily successful business families like the Rockefellers, Gettys, Carnegies and Mellons. In addition to their private-sector foundation funding, successful businesses also pay taxes that are returned to university art and science programs. And, many businesses form partnerships with universities to further scientific discovery and related technological progress. Finally, both art and science are highly successful business enterprises in their own right.

Secondly, the value of a nation is related to its ability to defend itself, and to help promote peace and justice among other nations. A nation is more capable in both regards when its businesses enjoy greater success. For example, the current return of Kosovars to their homeland was facilitated by a cost-intensive military effort that required funding from, among other sources, tax revenues from business. In addition, a wealthy nation can, by means of its trade agreements, use its economic strength to encourage other countries to extend greater human rights to their citizens. Finally, a wealthy nation can depend on an expansive weapons industry in the private sector; and it can fund an effective military to carry out national defense.

In sum, it is simplistic to suppose that achievement in art and science is more important to the value of a nation than the success of its businesses. The latter is essential to national and world security. And, business success is deeply connected to accomplishment in art and science.

 

GMAT ISSUE类作文范文-105

Topic:

All archaeological treasures should remain in the country in which they were originally discovered. These works should not be exported even if museums in other parts of the world are better able to preserve and display them.

Instructions:

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.

Sample Essay

Whether archaeological treasures should remain in the countries where they are found is a complex and controversial issue. I sympathize with the view that antiquities should remain in the country of their discovery. But given real-world considerations, it is sometimes best to place archaeological treasures wherever they will be safe and well-preserved.

Recent antiquities laws throughout the world reflect my point of view that the ancient treasures of a place should remain there. It seems outrageous that Greeks or Egyptians must visit the British Museum to see the best remnants of their distant past; and this link is grounds for a vague but justified claim to ownership.

However, cultural ownership is only one consideration. Historically, ancient treasures have been most interesting to two groups: scholars and robbers. Admittedly, the two are sometimes indistinguishable, as when Schliemann stole out of Turkey with an immense trove of what he mistakenly thought was King Priam’s treasure. Schliemann eventually placed his collection in the relatively safe hands of national museums, where it took the vicissitudes of war to destroy part of it. But none of Schliemann’s find would be available to the Turkish people or the world if plunderers had got there first.

Often, the plunderers do get there first. When Carter found the tomb of Tutankhamen, tomb-robbers, largely Egyptian, had carried off the treasures from bombs of other pharaohs. The fact that the world, including the Egyptians, have the exhaustively cataloged and well-preserved wonders of the Tutanhkamen find is owing to Carter and his associates. This, then, becomes the only argument for exporting ancient treasures to safer locations: it is a lesser evil than not having the treasures at all.

In sum, it is usually best to leave archaeological treasures within the country of their discovery. Even so, it is sometimes necessary to relocate them. This, however, leaves open two important and related issues: which specific situations justify relocation; and, whether there is ever an obligation to restore collections to the country where they were found.

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