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英文辩论大赛选题及论点 现代化与民生 The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase peoples efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time. 技术提高的主要目的使人更有效率，以给人更多时间. Partially agree Admittedly, technological advances do increase people’s efficiency to some extent (aero planes, calculators). However, with the development of technology comes diminished leisure time, for the purpose that, keeping pace with new technology in order to survive the severe competition nowadays depletes people’s time for leisure activities. (As far as we students are concerned, in order to be well prepared for future job, we attend after-school training and try to get a certificate that we are competitive and qualified.) Moreover, it is inevitable that development is always accompanied by problems. (It is human nature that enables people to pursue higher and higher efficiency and thus profits. Just like a person, once he is no longer struggling with hunger, he is more likely to look for something that can satisfy his other needs, such as art, music and so forth.) Consequently, the quicker technology advances, the more new problems will come into being, which compels people to work harder than ever before, and thus, longer working time is unavoidable. Actually, the primary goal of technological advancement should be facilitating life for human beings rather than creating more leisure time (advances in medicine, genetics, communication, education, etc.). Confessedly, the advancement sometimes involves improved efficiency, yet efficiency is merely a means to more important ends such as health, safety, education and freedom. NO.118成功学 In any field of endeavor -- the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, industry, etc. -- it is not the attainment of a goal that matters, but rather the ideas and discoveries that are encountered on the way to the goal. 任何领域的努力，自然科学、人文科学、社会科学、工业等等，我们最大的收获是成功路上的经验和发现，而不是成功本身的获取。 Partially agree Admittedly, the ideas and discoveries that are encounte