4. (20160228) Nowadays, children rely too much on technology.

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这道题是说在当今社会，孩子过于依赖科技的应用。可以结合当今社会科技的广泛应用来谈。尤其是信息技术和互联网的普及，使得孩子的生活中充满了电子产品，如手机、电视、电脑等，生活中的其他方面也都体现了科技的应用。孩子的生活和从前相比有了很大的差别。

从支持科技发展的角度看，通过科技的应用，孩子能够更早地接触科技领域，更好地适应快速发展的社会。同时，科技和教育的结合能够采用更灵活的教育方法，有助于他们的成长。但是，孩子对于科技产品的依赖容易使他们缺乏对生活的实际体验和体能的锻炼，可能不利于孩子的全面发展。

范文思路

论点：赞同目前孩子在成长中过度依赖科技的应用。

理由一：对科技的过度使用限制了孩子在体育方面的发展。

理由二：对科技的过度依赖限制了孩子的社交生活。

理由三：传统的玩具更有利于提升孩子的认知能力。

范文文本

The advancement of civil technology provided a new generation of children with great opportunities when growing up: they became natives in the realm of technology. Nevertheless, I feel obliged to express my concerns that children nowadays get fewer and fewer opportunities of playing with simple toys or outside the house, activities which are beneficial for their development in multiple aspects. This, I believe, is a serious social problem that urgently needs reflection by our generation.

A very persuasive argument against the excess use of technology for children is that it limits their physical development. I remember when I was young, I always go out to the yard to run, climb a tree or ride a bike. It is a pity that technology nowadays encourages children to stay indoors and explore a world of binary digits instead of a world filled with fresh air and plants. My concern is that insufficient amount of exercise in one's childhood and adolescence may prove to leave permanent physical defects when one grows to become an adult.

Another point I wish to make is that technology limits children's social life. By constantly attracting children to pay attention to electronic devices and softwares, technology has become children's best friend, leading kids to be socially unapt as they do not have the early experience of socializing with playmates as children, which may well be the best memory of one's childhood years. Technology may eventually prove to be, instead of a friend, a foe.

My final point is that traditional toys are better at helping the development of children's cognitive abilities. Traditional toys and games such as jigsaw puzzles, board games, and roleplaying games have well been proven to help children develop mentally and mature intellectually, while most contemporary computer games are not even created to help children develop, but with the sole purpose of entertainment. This is a great disadvantage of technology in comparison with traditional games.

Thus, I believe it is extremely worrisome that children are now giving up toys and playing outside, and regarding technology as their best friend, when the former assist children in developing physically, socially, as well as mentally.

语料积累

in the realm of technology 在技术领域

feel obliged to 觉得有义务做……

physical development 体能的发展

social life 社交生活

prove to be 结果是

jigsaw puzzles 拼图游戏

regard...as 把……当作