托福独立写作：今昔对比+社会类话题

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　考题回忆：

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Nowadays it is easier to maintain good health than in the past. Use specific examples to support your answer.

解题思路：

Modern people are more likely to achieve a good health condition than people in the past.

1. Firstly, more advanced medical science makes it possible that most common diseases can be controlled or cured efficiently.

2. Secondly, it is easier for modern people to access to sports facilities than people in the past.

3. Admittedly, the desire for a better life and intense competition bring modern people unprecedented stress. However, if they could realize the importance of health and give up on the unhealthy lifestyle, modern people’s health condition will be much better.

参考范文：

The desire for good health is universal. From past to present, people have been striving for physical fitness through any possible ways such as taking medicines or doing exercises. The fundamental importance of being healthy keeps itself a permanent topic and recently people begin to ponder over a question: is it easier to maintain good health nowadays than it was in the past? As far as I am concerned, modern people are more likely to achieve a good health condition than people in the past. My reasons and examples are given below.

Firstly, more advanced medical science makes it possible that most common diseases can be controlled or cured efficiently. Along with the ever-accelerating development of science and technology come breakthroughs in different disciplines linked to medical science like chemistry, biology and anatomy. The combination of those fruits has been pushing medical science to a higher level. Scientists have found solutions to many diseases that used to be thought as fatal, maintaining people’s health and extending people’s lifespan. For example, smallpox, an eradicated disease nowadays, was once a number-one killer engulfing tens of thousands of people’s lives. But with the invention of a certain vaccine, people put an end to this rampant disease.

Secondly, it is easier for modern people to access to sports facilities than people in the past. With government’s increasing investment on improvement of population’s physical quality, people, especially those living in the city, find sports facilities almost everyone such as basketball courts, swimming pools, and fitness equipment around the neighborhoods. Apart from the efforts made by the government, people’s growing awareness of keeping fit makes health and fitness a giant business. For example, gyms, skating rinks, and bowling alleys become a hit all over the world especially among kids and teenagers. Undoubtedly, those easily available sports facilities scattering through the city give all citizens a chance to be healthier.

Admittedly, the desire for a better life and intense competition bring modern people unprecedented stress. Most people are not able to keep a regular life. For instance, they sleep at a late hour and choose smoking or drinking to release pressure, which puts them in a sub-healthy state. However, if they could realize the importance of health and give up on the unhealthy lifestyle, modern people’s health condition will be much better.

To put it into a nutshell, it is easier to maintain good health for people nowadays than it was in the past. It is not only because there is a higher level of medical care, but also there are countless sports facilities. But what is more important is that people should have a real determination to say goodbye to bad living habits and 100% carry out their fitness schedule.