4.(20160228) Nowadays, children rely too much on technology.

头脑风暴

这道题是说在当今社会，孩子们过于依赖科技的应用。可以结合当今社会科技的广泛应用来谈。尤其是信息技术和互联网的普及，使得孩子们的生活中充满了电子产品，如手机、电视、电脑等，生活中的其他方面也都体现了技术的应用。孩子们的生活和从前相比有了很大的差别。

从支持科技发展的角度看，通过科技的应用，孩子们能够更早地接触科技领域，更好地适应快速发展的社会。同时科技和教育的结合能够采用更灵活的教育方法，有助于他们的成长。但是，孩子们对于科技产品的依赖容易使他们缺乏对生活的实际体验和体能的锻炼，可能不利于孩子们的全面发展。

范文思路

论点： 赞同目前孩子们在成长中过度依赖科技的应用。

理由一： 对科技的过度使用限制了孩子们在体育方面的发展。

理由二： 对科技的过度依赖限制了孩子们的社交生活。

理由三： 传统的玩具更有利于提升孩子们的认知能力。

范文文本

The advancement of civil technology provided a new generation of children with great opportunities when growing up: they became natives in the realm of technology.Nevertheless, I feel obliged to express my concerns that children nowadays get fewer and fewer opportunities of playing with simple toys or playing outside the house, activities which are beneficial for their development in multiple aspects.This, I believe, is a serious social problem that needs urgent reflection by our generation.

论据

用现在孩子们的童年和过去进行对比，表达对孩子们的身体健康及发育的担忧，进一步支撑科技应用使得孩子们户外活动减少，可能影响身体发育的论点。

A very persuasive argument against the excess use of technology for children is that it limits their physical development.I remember when I was young, I always went out to the yard to run, climb a tree or ride a bike.It is a pity that technology now encourages children to stay indoors and explore a world of binary digits instead of a world filled with plants, fresh air, and trees.My concern is that insufficient amount of exercise in one’s childhood and adolescence may prove to leave permanent physical defects when one grows to become an adult.

Another point I wish to make is that technology limits children’s social life.By constantly attracting children to pay attention to electronic devices and softwares, technology has become children’s best friend, leading kids to be socially unapt as they do not have the early experience of socializing with playmates as children, which may well be the best memory of one’s childhood years.Technology may eventually prove to be, instead of a friend, a foe.

观点展开

指出电子产品已经在孩子生活中成为朋友一样的存在，限制了他们正常的社交生活，解释科技应用如何阻碍了孩子们的社交。

观点

从智力等角度入手，提出传统玩具对孩子认知能力的发展更有帮助的观点。

My final point is that traditional toys are better at helping the development of the children’s cognitive abilities.Traditional toys and games such as jigsaw puzzles, board games, and role-playing games have well been proven to help children develop mentally and mature intellectually, while most contemporary computer games are not even created to help children develop, but with the sole purpose of entertainment.This is a great disadvantage of technology in comparison with traditional games.

Thus, I believe it is extremely worrisome that children are now giving up toys and playing outside, and regarding technology as their best friend, when the former assist children in developing physically, socially, as well as mentally.

总结

作者构思论点的方式值得借鉴。

体育能力、社交能力和认知能力都是从孩童时期开始发展的特征功能，所以实际上，本篇文章总结起来就是在讲过度使用科技产品对孩子们能力的影响，只不过是更加详细地从不同的角度出发去讲的。

同理，我们也可以从孩子的性格、习惯、智力等方面出发来头脑风暴更多论点。在遇到其他题目时，如果大家脑海中只能想出一个论点，不如尝试一下，看看这个论点是否能细分为更加微观的观点来进行阐述呢？

语料积累

词组

the advancement of ……的发达

in the realm of technology 在技术的领域

feel obliged to 觉得有义务做……

physical development 身体发育

permanent physical defects 永久的身体缺陷

social life 社交生活

prove to be 结果是

foe 敌人，仇敌

jigsaw puzzles 拼图游戏

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