雅思作文范文 | 应该去偏远地区开发能源吗？（双语）

本期题目

With the increasing demand for energy sources of oil and gas, people should look for sources of oil and gas in remote and untouched places. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of damaging such areas?

解析

本题关键词包括：look for sources of oil and gas, in remote and untouched places, 即，去偏远地区开发能源，从而破坏这些地区，这样做是否有利？仔细分析会发现，本题实际暗含了一个手段-目的关系：为了解决能源短缺问题，需要去偏远地区寻找能源。

此类题型的一般解题思路为：先承认手段的合理性，再讨论手段带来的问题，最后提出比该手段更好的选择。

遵循这个思路，本题可以首先讨论在偏远地区开发能源的好处，比如可以解决能源稀缺的问题，而且在偏远地区开发，对人类生活的短期影响较小，然后讨论在偏远地区开发能源的坏处，比如浪费大量人力物力，而且破坏生态环境，对人类生活的长期影响非常可怕，最后提出自己的观点：为解决能源问题，到偏远地区开发能源弊大于利，人们应该做的是节约能源，同时开发替换能源（alternative energy），比如太阳能和水能等。

双语范文

The shortage of energy such as oil and gas has become one of the most urgent problems in modern world. To solve the problem, many suggest that we go to the remote and untouched places for more sources of energy. To my mind, however, this is a suggestion that may produce mixed results.

石油和天然气等能源短缺已成为现代世界最紧迫的问题之一。

为了解决这个问题，许多人建议我们去偏远和人迹未至的地方寻找更多的能源。然而，在我看来，这个做法可能产生好坏参半的结果。

Looking for new energy in uninhabited areas is a very attractive idea. Such places always abound with energy desperately needed by human race, thus attracting generations of people to take their chances. Besides, the exploration of energy in these areas has little immediate impact on the everyday life of people since it happens far away from where they live.

在无人居住的地区寻找新能源是一个非常有吸引力的想法。这样的地方总是充满了人类急需的能源，从而吸引了一代代的人去冒险。此外，在这些领域的能源探索对人们的日常生活几乎没有直接影响，因为它发生在远离人民居住的地方。

But doing so may have a lot of problems as well. To start with, it would involve tremendous costs to find energy in these places. People will have to build houses, and roads to transport food and other daily necessities, all of which will be so expensive that the costs may far exceed the benefits. More importantly, looking for energy in the remote areas will almost certainly damage their natural environment. As plants and animals die out, the whole ecosystem will be upset, the long-term effect of which would be devastating.

但这样做也可能会有很多问题。首先，在这些地方寻找能源将需要巨大的成本。人们将不得不建造房屋，并修建道路来运输食物和其他生活必需品，所有这些东西都将非常昂贵，以至于成本可能远远超过收益。更重要的是，在偏远地区寻找能源，几乎肯定会破坏这些地区的自然环境。随着动植物的消亡，整个生态系统将会被破坏，其长期影响将是毁灭性的。

In my personal opinion, therefore, people should not be encouraged to invade the unpopulated areas in order to protect themselves from the energy crisis, for the aftermaths would be unbearable. To solve the energy problem, people should first of all learn to save energy whenever possible, and then develop alternative energy sources such as solar energy and water energy. （263 words）

因此，在我个人看来，不应该鼓励人们为自己免受能源危机的影响而入侵这些无人居住的地区，因为后果将是无法忍受的。为了解决能源问题，人们首先应该学会尽可能节约能源，然后开发太阳能和水能等替代能源。

精华语料

urgent 紧迫的；急迫的

to my mind 在我看来；我认为

mixed results 好坏参半的结果

uninhabited 无人居住的

abound with 富含......

desperately 极端地

involve 涉及；包含

tremendous 巨大的

exceed 超过

ecosystem 生态系统