3.科技和現代生活（the Use of Robots）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the following topic:the use of robots is changing our way of life.You should illustrate the positive impacts with specific examples. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

范文：

In our contemporary society, it is a common phenomenon that people are enjoying the greatest technological boom in human history, hence the advent of robots has brought huge convenience as well as a host of concerns.

From a positive point of view, provided that our human society intends to acquire and enjoy long-time prosperity, it is advisable for humans to utilize robots in both life and industries. Thanks to the use of robots, we have seen a host of productive inventions, such as driverless cars, intelligent sound boxes, cleaning robots and so on. It is these robots that enables humans to work more efficiently, and ensures more fruitful results in technological advancement. In the meantime, they free people from tedious, repetitive, sometimes even dangerous and risky work. However, from a negative point of view, it seems that the function of people has been weakened, and a host of people’s jobs has been taken by robots.

In a nutshell, I hold the view that robots enables human beings to be creative and innovative, in spite of some negative effects brought by them. Hence, we as youngsters, should be educated to make good use of robots, so that we may embrace a more promising and intelligent society. (206 words)

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在我們當代社會，一個普遍的現象是人們正在享受著人類歷史上最大的科技繁榮。因此機器人的出現給人們的生活和工業帶來了巨大的便利，同時也帶來和很多問題。

從積極的角度來看，假如我們人類社會想要獲得并且享受長久的繁榮，那么人們應該在生活和工業中使用機器人。正因為機器人的使用，我們看到了許多生產效率高的發明，如無人駕駛汽車，智能音箱，掃地機器人等等。正是這些機器人使人類能更有效地工作，并確保科技發展中更加豐碩的成果。同時，他們把人類從無聊/重復有時甚至危險的工作的解放出來。然而，從消極的角度去看，似乎人類的功能被削弱了，許多人的工作也被機器人取代了。

總而言之，我認為機器人使人類變得有創造力和創新精神，盡管機器人也帶來了一些負面影響。因此，我們作為年輕人，應當被教育利用好機器人，這樣我們就可以擁抱一個更有前景和智慧的社會。