2012年2月9日雅思范文

>Some people think that spreading multinational companies and the increasing globalization produce positive effects to everyone.  Do you agree or disagree?

by Jeenn Lee Hsieh

真题大意是问考生关于如日中生的跨国大公司与逐渐扩大的经济全球化，到底是不是对大家都有好处？2月9日的试题比类似的考古题更为复杂，因为不光是比较全球化的利弊，而却还要讨论国际大企业在全球化的现象中所扮演的角色。考生如果只提全球化，只算回答一半，另外一半是跑题。如此可能会遭受扣作文分数，可是未必影响英文成绩。

英文的使用方面，因人而异，没话说。提供一篇范文给学友参考。

It is becoming clear that the growing globalization, and along with it the expanding multinational companies, is not likely to benefit all the people all the time.  In theory globalization could be the answer to the world's seemingly intractable economic problems, but in practice it might backfire because its fragility has often been underestimated. While this game is now inevitable, some people are wondering if the economy of each country has to be dependent on the economy of all the rest countries in order to make everybody happy.

Multinational companies are big players in the game, reshaping world trade.  The international economy that used to be is giving way to a new multinational economy as these companies play an increasingly decisive role in globalization changes.  The dominance of leading corporations is helping capitals and technologies flow, and goods and services move beyond borders in what seems like a win-win situation.  Free trade does pay off, spurring economic growth, creating jobs, reducing labor costs, and lowering prices on many products, among other obvious benefits, even though the practice is not without negative consequences. For example, too much outsourcing jobs overseas has been criticized in the United States because it presents a new threat, contributing to work insecurity and economic recession at home. However, in some labor-intensive countries, too much financial reliance on big foreign firms gives rise to doubts if it would not be an allusion to a new form of colonialism in the making.

The effects of globalization are manifold, affecting various aspects of people's lifestyles as well as world economy, chiefly because of marketing strategies undertaken by different multinational companies.  Promotion of liberal trade activities is perhaps the greatest achievement of globalization, acting as a boon to world economy in which fruits of success can be shared by as many people as expected.  From this viewpoint, globalization is a a positive development.  Nevertheless, there are reasons that not everyone really thinks highly of the epidemic globalization which is changing individuals' lifestyles in a manner too far too fast.  In some developing countries, there are worries among people that multinational companies and big economies are controlling the way they live and the way they work.  Currently in some developed countries, due largely to negative effects of globalization there appears no end of bad news invariably related to unemployment troubles and financial disasters.

Regardless of its advantages and drawbacks, globalization is a fact of life and is here to stay like the Internet and other inventions which further push international exchanges.  It remains to be seen whether globalization engineered by multinational empires may just turn out to be the best or the worst phenomenon that can happen to people around the world. While the game is far from over, one thing is sure: happy or not, there is no turning back.

那只提跨国公司是不是也算跑题啊？