3. Do the young people nowadays rely/depend too much on technology?

科技的发展，使绚烂的手机、MP4等工业产品有了脉脉人情，人类也随之更加依赖技术上的进步。尤其是当今网络时代，电子通讯、可视电话方便了人与人之间的交往，年轻人与朋友、亲戚、父母之间的联系也是借助于各项新的技术产品的。这道题目的回答要紧扣年轻人作为对象进行分析。回答这类题目重要的是说明是或否的原因，即年轻人是否过于依赖技术的原因。

Candidate 1: Do the young people nowadays rely too much on technology? The answer is affirmative.

As a young person in 21st century, maybe I can't imagine that several decades ago when a person was far away from home and isolated in a strange city, he had no choice but to write a letter in order to ease isolated feelings and homesickness; and I can't imagine many years ago how people got to know the world tendency.

Nowadays, the young people can't be seperated from the modern technology. Walking along the street, the young people like listening all kinds of music with MP3, MP4, MP5 even MP6 players...

What's more, every young person has a mobile phone, so they wouldn't be isolated from this society, his family and friends.

If you enter the dorm of the university, you can have a big surprise that there are several laptops in such a small dorm. Young people use it for studying, chatting, playing computer games, making new friends, getting to know the whole world and so on.

So it is sure that the young people depend on too much on technology.

Candidate 2: Yes, they do.

Nowadays, technology, especially high technology is playing a more important role in young people's everyday life instead of cooking by themselves, they have been used to heating the food by microwave. They wash their clothes with the washing machine rather than by hand. Most of the young people have given up cassette recorders and listen to music or English on MP3 or MP4. The young people nowadays are having so much dependence on technology that they are losing some basic abilities, which will lead to bad effects on them, and bad habits would thus be formed.

For instance, when young people want to find something unknown, they always log onto the Internet. Though the Internet will provide more kinds of materials than books, it contains unhealthy information.

Besides, communicating through Internet, such as chatting on-line can make many young people estrange from the reality. Still worse, too many young people especially boys, are addicted to playing Internet games.

Have you ever heard of cheating with high technology? Have you ever deeply thought about the problems that technology brought in?

In conclusion, I hope young people can make proper use of technology. Do like this, you will get good returns. If you rely on too much on technology, or make improper use of it, you will suffer from bad results.

两位考生都在一开始点明当今的年轻人毫无疑问很大程度上依赖科技产品。Candidate 1首先和过去进行了对比，自然得出结论，年轻人依赖工业产品与外界保持联系；Candidate 2的基调明显与Candidate 1不同，他指出现在的年轻人过分依赖工业产品，受到了严重的不良影响，年轻人应该正确利用技术产品，可见其思考比较全面。

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