關(guān)于老年人的托福作文范文

　　In many countries, the proportion of older people is steadily increasing. Does this trend have more positive or negative effects on society?

　　The world is getting older. You come across old people everywhere-in restaurants, on airplanes, in hospitals and even in Disneyland! Things were quite different 20 years ago, when young people dominated the world. Is this change in demography good or bad for society? I would say it has more negative effects than positive ones.

　　Doubtlessly, older people are much experienced in life, so to society, and particularly to the younger generation, they are a valuable treasure. This is because older people can give us constructive suggestions and can assist us in doing many different things, preventing us from making mistakes. So, seen from this perspective, an increasing proportion of older people in the population are not necessarily something bad.

　　However, it would not be accurate to say that having an older population always benefits us. It also has negative effects on society. First of all, the aging population is retiring from the working world. That means it does not offer society the labor it needs for its sustained economic growth. Japan has actually been troubled by its aging laborers who are destined to be the pure wealth consumers. Japanese people are even encouraged by their government to give birth to more babies, not for themselves, but for the nation!

　　Secondly, rapid social development calls for more people with creative and innovative minds and generally speaking, these refer to young people. Electric bulbs and computers would never have come about without groups of young people who were not happy with the status quo and were bold enough to challenge established traditions. It is said more than 80% of the great inventions and literary works are created by people under 40 years old.

　　In a word, while older people enlighten us with their rich experience, they use up more than what they produce. At the same time, they are more likely to follow rules docilely. Therefore, the demerits of an aged population far outweigh its merits.

　　世界日漸衰老，老年人隨處可見(jiàn)：在飯店里、在飛機(jī)上、在醫(yī)院里，甚至在迪斯尼樂(lè)園里！20年前事情還大為不同，那時(shí)候年輕人是世界的主流。這一人口配比的變化對(duì)社會(huì)來(lái)講究竟是好事呢，還是壞事呢？此狀況弊大于利。

　　毋庸置疑，老年人生活閱歷豐富，對(duì)社會(huì)，特別是對(duì)年輕人來(lái)講，這是一筆寶貴的財(cái)富。老一輩可以為我們提供富有建設(shè)性的意見(jiàn)，可以協(xié)助我們做很多事情，可以防止我們犯錯(cuò)誤。所以，從這個(gè)角度講，老齡人口比重的增加不見(jiàn)得是件壞事情。

　　但是，如果說(shuō)老年人給我們帶來(lái)的都是積極的影響也是不對(duì)的。他們的負(fù)面影響同樣存在。首先，老年人退休后不再工作。這就意味著他們不再能夠提供社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)持續(xù)發(fā)展所需要的勞動(dòng)力。實(shí)際上，日本就受到日益老齡化的勞動(dòng)力影響，因?yàn)槔夏耆俗⒍〞?huì)成為純粹的財(cái)富消費(fèi)者。日本人甚至得到政府的鼓勵(lì)多生孩子，這樣做不是為了他們自己，而是為了他們的國(guó)家！

　　第二，社會(huì)要取得快速發(fā)展，需要更多的創(chuàng)新人才，一般意義上講，就是需要年輕人。如果沒(méi)有大批不滿(mǎn)現(xiàn)狀的年輕人勇于挑戰(zhàn)傳統(tǒng)，就不會(huì)有今天的電燈和計(jì)算機(jī)。據(jù)說(shuō)，80%的偉大發(fā)明和文學(xué)作品是由40歲以下的人所創(chuàng)造的。

　　概括講來(lái)，年長(zhǎng)的一代給予我們豐富的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，但卻是財(cái)富的主要消費(fèi)者。與此同時(shí)，他們更多時(shí)候傾向于循規(guī)蹈矩而缺乏創(chuàng)新。因此，人口老齡化的弊端遠(yuǎn)大于其優(yōu)勢(shì)。