2020年10月25日雅思大作文题目：互联网是不是人类最重要的发明?      

话题如下：

There are many inventions in human history, but some people think that the most important invention is the Internet. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (2020/10/25)

解 析

题材：科技

题型：Discussion

关键词：The Internet + the most important invention

需要讨论的观点：互联网是不是人类历史最重要的发明

建议思路：互联网是很重要的发明，但可能不是最重要的发明。

复现情况：新题

      审 题      

本次考题以前似乎没有出现过，但相信大家对这个话题并不陌生。

各位同学还需要关注的是本题的命题方式：...是(最重要)的。请看如下真题：

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The best way to teach children to cooperate is through team sports at school. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (2015/11/14)

Some people believe that newspaper is the best way to learn about news, while others believe that more effective way is through other media. Discuss both views and give your opinion. (2018/3/24)

Some people think that the best way to reduce time spent in travelling to work is to replace parks and gardens close to the city center with apartment buildings for commuters, but others disagree. Discuss both views and give your opinion.(2019/4/13)

这种题型的解答方式一般都是：

1. ......是很好的或者重要的

2. ......不是的或者最重要的，因为的标准无法确定，或者......还带来一些问题，或者还有更好的或更重要的)

按照这种思路，本题的回答顺序就是：首先讨论互联网是非常重要的发明(这个比较容易，随便写几条互联网给我们生活带来的好处即可，比如方便我们查找和传递信息，拉近人与人之间的物理距离等);

然后提出互联网也许不是最重要的发明，它只是提高了我们的工作和交流效率，没有互联网我们依旧可以生活。如果按照重要性来说，文字语言的发明也许才是人类历史上最重要的，因为只有文字语言才让人类与动物区分开来，从此真正步入人类社会。

毫无疑问，唐老师这里提供的答案只是众多可能的答案之一，绝非标准答案，大家需要学习的是唐老师的解题思路。

      7分范文      

As the Internet has become an indispensable part of our life nowadays, many people begin to believe that it is the most important invention ever made by human beings. While the Internet is without doubt one of the greatest inventions in human history, it is perhaps not the single most important one.

The Internet is a great invention in that it makes our life more convenient and our work more efficient. Before the advent of the Internet, for instance, we had to travel a few miles to the post office in order to send a letter to our friends, who then had to wait a few days to receive the letter. But now the Internet enables us to exchange information with our friends in a blink of an eye. In work situations, the Internet is even more useful because it has rendered management, production, distribution, and selling highly efficient and thus has significantly boosted the productivity of the whole society.

Yet we can hardly say that the Internet is THE most important invention in human history, if by “the most important invention” we mean one that is not only ground-breaking but also completely necessary for human beings to exist. Judged from this perspective, the Internet is perhaps not a suitable candidate for “the most important invention”, since, without the Internet, the human world would still be there just as it was in the pre-Internet age. So, instead of the Internet, I would label language as “the most important invention”, because it was the invention of language that ultimately distinguished humans from animals and made possible everything we have now in the human world.

To conclude, the Internet is an invention as great as electricity, solar energy, and the atomic bomb, but if we have to choose “the most important invention” in human history, I would give my vote to that of language.

      老师笔记      

01

As the Internet has become an indispensable part of our life nowadays, many people begin to believe that it is the most important invention ever made by human beings. While the Internet is without doubt one of the greatest inventions in human history, it is perhaps not thesingle most important one.

由于互联网已经成为我们当今生活中不可或缺的一部分，许多人开始相信它是人类有史以来最重要的发明。虽然互联网无疑是人类历史上最伟大的发明之一，但它可能不是最重要的发明。

解析

(1) 本段将背景和题目观点融为一句，然后提出自己的观点。

(2) Indispensable 不可或缺的

(3) Without doubt 无疑地

(4) Single 的

02

The Internet is a great invention in that it makes our life more convenient and our work more efficient. Before the advent of the Internet, for instance, we had to travel a few miles to the post office in order to send a letter to our friends, who then had to wait a few days to receive the letter. But now the Internet enables us to exchange information with our friends in a blink of an eye. In work situations, the Internet is even more useful because it hasrendered management, production, distribution, and selling highly efficient and thus has significantly boosted the productivity of the whole society.

互联网是一个伟大的发明，因为它使我们的生活更加方便，我们的工作更加高效。例如，在互联网出现之前，我们不得不走几英里去邮局，给朋友寄一封信，然后他们不得不等几天才能收到这封信。但现在互联网使我们能够在一眨眼之间与我们的朋友交换信息。在工作环境中，互联网更有用，因为它使管理、生产、分销和销售变得高效，从而大大提高了整个社会的生产力。

解析

(1) 本段讨论互联网的重要意义：抓住convenient和efficient两个关键词展开。

(2) In that... 因为......

(3) Advent 来临

(4) Exchange information 交换信息

(5) In a blink of an eye 眨眼间

(6) Render 使得......

(7) Boost the productivity 提高生产力

03

Yet we can hardly say that the Internet is THE most important invention in human history, if by “the most important invention” we mean one that is not only ground-breaking but also completely necessary for human beings to exist. Judged from this perspective, the Internet is perhaps not a suitable candidate for “the most important invention”, since, without the Internet, the human world would still be there just as it was in the pre-Internet age. So, instead of the Internet, I would label language as “the most important invention”, because it was the invention of language that ultimately distinguished humans from animals and made possible everything we have now in the human world.

然而，我们很难说互联网是人类历史上最重要的发明，如果“最重要的发明”指的不仅是开创性的，而且是人类生存所必需的发明。从这个角度来看，互联网也许不是“最重要的发明”的合适选项，因为没有互联网，人类世界仍然会像互联网前的时代一样存在。因此，我愿意把“最重要的发明”这个标签送给语言文字，而不是互联网，因为正是语言的发明才最终将人类与动物区分开来，使我们现在人类世界中拥有的一切成为可能。

解析

(1) 本段定义什么是“最重要的发明”，然后指出语言，而不是互联网，是人类最重要的发明。

(2) Ground-breaking 开创性的

(3) Candidate 人选;候选人

(4) The pre-Internet age 前互联网时代

(5) Ultimately 最终

(6) Distinguish 区分

04

To conclude, the Internet is an invention as great as electricity, solar energy, and the atomic bomb, but if we have to choose “the most important invention” in human history, I would give my vote to that of language.

总之，互联网是一项伟大的发明，就像电力、太阳能和原子弹一样伟大，但如果我们必须选择人类历史上最重要的发明，我愿意投票给语言的发明。

解析

(1) 本段总结前面的讨论。

(2) Solar energy 太阳能

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