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Issue 57 题目：
The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
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What is the main benefit of the study of history? The speaker says that it is the function of convincing us that people live the same as earlier one. Admittedly that it is one function, however, I don't agree with the author to the extent that it is the main benefit. Lots of benefits shouldn't been neglected in the study of history. But sometimes, history is even a supporting that people's lives have changed a lot.
Sometimes, history is true that it is evidence that people are living the same during one period of time. Have a look at the people in America during the last one hundred years, people have suffered the Big Depression last century, banks got bankrupted, and stock markets got slumped and so forth, which are also suffered by us in the Financial Crisis in 2008. History is always repeating and it enrolls us in the whirlpools with sufferings or happiness. Therefore, we have to agree with the author's idea in some specific situations.
However, as for the benefit that we can get from the study of history, we have to admit that there are far more benefits that we can conclude from the history. For instance, we can skim the faults that our precursors made and then summarize some experiences from them, which will prevent us from stepping in it again. Furthermore, we can also learn a lot from the history about the progress that humans made and even the developing process of us, which can dismiss the mysteries about how we humans emerge and satisfy the curiosity of human beings. From my point of view, those are some advantages of studying history that are more significant than dispelling the illusion of people. But I cannot extinguish out which is most beneficial to human beings either.
On the contrary to the author's claim, sometimes history concerns us of the fact that the world has changed or at least it is changing. Comparisons between far history and the current world will tell us we are enjoying better lives than our precursors. A look at the world before the Industrial Revolution, no one owned an air conditioner in their homes. In the hot summers, all they can do was going swimming or just rotate their pans in their hands. But we now can enjoy the cold wind blown from the air conditioners, which make our lives more and more enjoyable. Examples like the air conditioners like the invention of bulbs, automobiles, cell phones all make sense. In this level, we have to say that our living days are totally different from people who lived in earlier times.
To sum up, although it is right that sometimes history dispel the illusion that people are significantly different from earlier people, we shouldn't never admitted it to be the main benefit of the study of history. What should we think about more is that some evidence proves that even the contrary and there are many other things that are the benefits of history-studying. |
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