关于今昔对比的托福作文范文

　　Do you think life is easier and more comfortable today compared with those days when your grandparents were children? Use specific reasons or examples to support your ideas.

　　你是否认为比起祖父母小时候，我们如今的生活更加简便舒适？请用具体的理由和示例来说明。

　　Although in this big world, there are people still living in jungles with no “modern conveniences” to make life easier, in general, life is obviously more comfortable for most people today than it was for our grandparents.

　　For instance, homes have central heating now; the rooms are uniformly warm. There is no need to hover over a kerosene- or wood-burning stove and stand before the fireplace to get warm as our grandparents did.

　　Now we have cell phones to make calls anytime night or day from anywhere we may be rather than having to be at home. What is more, instead of just one fixed phone per home, now almost everyone has their own phone for convenient use without having to wait their turn to use the house phone.

　　Now we have many other conveniences to make life more comfortable such as indoor plumbing, elevators, microwave ovens, color TVs, computers, better public transportation, more shops more conveniently located with a wider range of goods than ever before, more restaurants at which to enjoy a delicious meal, even better made clothes with special fibers to keep us warmer with a less bulky look than just a few years ago.

　　Medical science and services are much better. Medical staffs are better trained. Drug stores are more widely available with a vast array of remedies. We have preventative measures or cures for many diseases and maladies that were not available to our grandparents.

　　A brief conversation with our grandparents about their lives when they were children would reveal an even longer list of how much more comfortable our lives are now than theirs were as kids.