今日考题重复2021年7月24日原题。
Some people think individuals are more and more dependent on each other. Others believe we are more and more independent. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
本周雅思大作文是一道旧题，是2016年 11月05日及2013年8月24日的原题重现，相信很多烤鸭都见过。老雅的公众号（ieltswriting4u)也推出过高分范文。
当今社会，我们是更互相依赖了，还是更独立了？
好像双方都有很多道理。比如，有人说，我们现在更加独立了，因特网的出现，我们可以在家购物，在家上班，在家读书；经济水平和社会条件的改善，老年人可住老年公寓，不再依靠其子女的赡养了；女性可以工作，当然也不再依靠丈夫了。
总之，我们对外界的依赖似乎越来越少。然而，转换角度，我们会发现，由于社会分工越来越精细，我们每个人都只是其中的一环，因此，实际上，我们的社会依赖程度甚至高于以往。
比如，华尔街的金融分析师们的电脑出了问题，必须依靠电脑专家来解决；好莱坞的大导演们家里水管坏了，必须依靠管道工来解决，等等。
从情感上看，我们相互依赖程度也可能更高：正是由于在身体上我们相互依赖程度减少，我们的情感依赖可能更高了，即使是那些住老年公寓的老年人，他们对儿女的情感依赖完全可能高于以往住在一起的时候。
那么，我觉得结论就是：表面上看（physically)，我们好像比以前独立了；但情感上（emotionally)或社会关系上（socially)，我们相互依赖的程度也许更高了。这样分层讨论，文章的结构清晰，观点明确，有话可说。
本题看起来抽象，但老雅范文的特点是：用日常生活中的道理来论证抽象的话题，轻松、活泼、有趣、生动。好作文就应该这样！
7分范文
Today, we canapparently accomplisha lot of things without the help of others, which leads to the popular belief that we are becoming more and more independent. However,whilewe enjoy this independence in some ways, we are actually becoming more dependent on each other in others.Independence means more freedom and lessrestrictions.Following this definition,we can easily find we have become much more independent than ever before.
For instance,thanks tothe Internet, we can now sit at home and send letters to our friends withoutbothering togo to the post office. We can also use our smart phones as a tool for shopping and reading so that we are freed from driving to the supermarket or carrying heavy books with us. We have more independence in families, too.
As people earn more money and enjoy better medical care, they no longer have to reply on their children to take care of them when they grow old, instead, they can spend their late years in the nursing home for the old. And, with womengaining more and more equalityin the workplace, they have also gained the financial independence.That said, I would argue that the independence we enjoy today comesat huge costs. Asthe labor divisionbecomes more intensified, it is now very common that an individual becomes a moron when he has one step outside his own profession.
As a consequence, he becomes more dependent on others in life. A Wall Street financial analyst may be extremely skillful in his field and earn tons of money to render his life very independent, yet without a plumber, his life may turn into a mess when a pipe isblockedin his kitchen. Then when he grows old and lives in the nursing home far away from his children, his loneliness will make him more dependent emotionally on them and this dependence really hurts.It is, therefore, true that the development of science and technology does bring us more physical independence, but socially and emotionally, we may become more dependent on each other.（349 words)
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