[多项选择]For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Technology, a Blessing or a Curse You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 1．科学技术使人们的生活变得更加便利 2．科学技术造成的负面影响 3．我们应该怎样面对这种矛盾

参考答案: Technology, a Blessing or a Curse As an important force in the betterment of human life, technological development saves time and labour, reaches unexplored frontiers, and completes many former "impossible missions". For instance, computers and the Internet have made the world a smaller one. With a click of the mouse, a web cam and a microphone, friends are no longer kept apart by distance. In fact, modern people can hardly manage daily life, let alone a comfortable life, without sophisticated machines, apparatus and gadgets. Unfortunately, for every problem, there is a solution, and for every solution, there is a problem. It is unilateral to regard technology as a sole blessing, because it also exerts negative impacts. Take the automobiles as an example, while offering people convenience, they emit toxic and greenhouse gases. Besides, when walking and cycling become luxuries, the lack of exercises accounts for many health problems among young and middle-aged people. So to some extent, technology is a curse that the human beings spell on themselves. Such is the paradox: technology is a double-edged sword—the proper use is certainly conductive to the productivity of modern life, but once we overuse, misuse or even abuse it, we run the risk of hurting ourselves. So is technology a blessing or a curse It all depends on how we use it.