中澳移民留学

Task 2

　　The tendency to copy is shown in the popularity of fashion in clothes and other consumers' goods. To what extend do you agree or disagree?’

As people’s aesthetic demands growing with the development of fashion industry. No issue seems more marvelous than fashion. Fashion has long been an important part in modern life and it is so common in my country for young people to follow some fashion trends in clothes, accessories, mobile phones, and even lifestyles like travelling abroad to enjoy the picturesque and exotic landscape. The most evident example is the apple’s gadgets which are so sought after that fans of the digital giant send their tributes to it in a fanatical way.
 
In the first place, there would be better understanding about this phenomenon if the driving factors are scrutinized. The young generation is always the fashion followers who are eager to win recognition from their community, and the way of achieving that includes looking like a huge celebrity or a successful tycoon. Therefore imitating the clothing style of celebrities becomes sought after. This tendency is also enhanced by glaring and dynamic advertisements in various forms. Rich and shiny stars endorse products and enthusiastic fans support them by making a generous purchase. But since when has all this materialistic lifestyle started? Are the celebrities the fashion setter?’ If we agree, it would be ridiculous. Without the abundant consumer goods in modern society, there would not have been so many entertainments or fashions. Therefore, the real fashion setter should be the high production efficiency which encourages people to pursue luxuries. Fashion trend as an effective marketing strategy has to be dynamic, otherwise there would be less demand for mass production.
 
In addition to the previous point, regardless of the high popularity of some consumer goods or world known brands, some mature minded people show no tendency of copying popular fashion. They have developed their own personal tastes for clothes and other consumer commodities and their preference tends to be less precarious. Further they are realistic and are more likely to make reasonable and sagacious decision when shopping than youngsters.
 
In conclusion, I believe that young people are prone to copy popular fashion trends in many aspects of life due to the ample supply of consumer goods and the promotion of advertisements while there are some mature people holding their personal way of life and ignoring the vogue vanity. In that case, the preponderance of the judicious consumers are just follow their internal desire to make a choice but not follow the superficial fad. Thus the tendency for human beings to copy one another cannot be shown in the popularity of fashion in clothes and other consumer goods.

The chart below shows the percentage of men and women who were overweight in Australia between 1980 and 2010.

 Some people think all lawbreakers should be put into prison. Others believe that there are better alternatives. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

 Task One
The table provides information about how many cars were manufactured in Argentina, Australia and Thailand
between 2003 and 2009.
Just 161,176 cars were produced in Argentina in 2003 but this rose considerably to 432,120 in 2006. The
numbers continued to rise but growth slowed down in 2009 when 512,924 vehicles were made.
The trend in Australia was quite different. 413,261 cars were made in 2003 but the industry declined during the
following six years. 330,906 cars were manufactured in 2006 and this number fell to 227,283 in 2009.
Thailand produced more cars than the other two countries put together. In 2003, 742,062 were made and in
2006 this increased to a staggering 1,194,426. There was a small decline following this because 999,378 cars
were made in 2009.
Overall, the data for the three countries was quite different. The car industry kept rising in Argentina but
steadily declined in Australia. On the other hand, there was a spike in the number of cars made in Thailand in
2006, but then it declined a little in 2009. Many more cars were made in Thailand than in the other two
countries.

Nowadays, with living standards becoming higher and higher, more people are able to afford household appliances such as TV, microwave, oven and rice cooker. In my opinion, that is a positive phenomenon which stands for a more efficient and convenient life.

Topic: the population is more and more diversified. Why is the case? is it a positive or negative development?

IELTS Writing Task 2
 
雅思真题 Topic:
 
Nowadays, some buildings such as offices and schools have open-space design instead of separate rooms.  Why is it so? Do you think that this is a positive or negative development?
 
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
 
谢振礼 原创范文
Essay by Jeenn Lee Hsieh:
 
These days, it is common to see an increasing number of open-plan offices and schools, particularly in most major cities where there is limited area for buildings.  The main reason for this trend is cost, of course, since the value of floor space has been rising.  While having an open-space design is usually cheaper, it is worthy of more research on the pros and cons of this development.
 
To begin with, being cheaper in cost is certainly not the only positive aspect about the growingly popular open-space concept.  Regarding the construction of schools or universities, the open-plan design is meant to play the dual role of social interaction among students and environmental enhancement on a compact campus in the urban setting.  This is made possible by eliminating barriers such as walls, fences and hedges that traditionally used to separate distinct functional areas.  Meanwhile, such advantages may as well happen to the office floor.  It is argued that there are better interaction between staff, less distinction between different rankings of co-workers, more flexible space, and more natural light because of the removal of inteior walls.  All these serve to explain the popularity of the open-space design.
 
As often as not, the open-space design may just turn out to be a negative development leading to stress, if nothing else.  On the campus, it is reported that students are exposed to high levels of stress in their learning activities.  Surveys repetively show the majority of them are experiencing significant stress as a result of interpersonal conflicts, self-esteem complexities, time constraints, academic frustrations and emotional problems.  Similar effects are even more apparent in the working environment on the office floor.  For instance, it is hard for staff to concentrate due to lack of privacy and feeling of being watched.  What is more, problems of constant noise are likely to lower staff performance.
 
To sum up, there are both good things and bad things about open schools or open offices.  While the recent trend toward the open-plan design can be explained as at least cost-efficient, it is also important to know that those benefits are typically offset by myriad distractions and stressful situations.  Independent of the cost factor, not all people like the open-space design.  (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼)

 
In many countries, the proportion of older people is steadily increasing. Does this trend make positive or negative effects to the society? 




It is inevitable that the aging has been a strong trend in many parts of the world for many years. Part of reasons would be the rapid development of some industries like healthcare, medicines or even insurance and etc… and the others might include government policies, culture changes, and social moral shifts. Some countries, especially the developed ones, has stepped into the aging society which has a fairly large proportion of older people in the overall population structure, while more developing countries are moving to this direction at different paces. As a result of which, the debate on the impacts of aging population to a society, in general, never ends.

A certain proportion of social study expertise insists that aging has more positive effects than negative, to a society. They claims that more older people help to form a more mature, steady social environments, as they believe, supported from previous population studies, that older people have more respects to the public communities, and are much less aggressive when conflicts arise. Secondly, this trend can significantly stimulate the development of some relevant industries like healthcare and medicines, and perfect the government pension system and commercial insurance system, as the demand on those products increases in line with the aging trend. 

While there are also many other professionals criticizing the positive effects from aging to a society might be over-estimated and the negative impacts could be substantial. This is particularly true to some developing countries, where sound pension and healthcare insurance systems have not been established. As aging adds much more pressures on these systems than societies which are dominated by young people. Secondly, large proportion of older people means relatively small proportion of young and mid-aged people, who are the primary contributors to the industry and overall economy. Thus lacking of working force is always a key issue for aging society. Last but not least, within a family unit, mid-generations have much more pressures financially and emotionally, from the older and younger generations in the family, which is particularly true in some countries where one child policy are deployed, like China. 

The debate never ends and there is no universally dominating opinion over the other. I believe that the population proportion and the economy status should be somewhat balanced, in order to maximize the benefits and minimize the shortages from society becoming aging. More specific, when a society is inevitably becoming an aging one, we need to ensure the related industries and policies are in place to support the transition. 

Some countries achieve international success, building specialised sports facilities for top athletes to train instead of providing sports facilities that everyone can use. Positive or negative?

In modern society, fashion is becoming more highly valued in people’s choice of clothes. Why? Do you think it is a positive or negative development.