2009年考研英語議論文范文系列（二十）

Buying Lottery Tickets

     兩個圖表顯示的是兩個調查結果。圖表一反映了北京、上海、廣州三個城市里夢想有一天中500萬的人的比例，平均為70％，圖表二反映了中獎后，人們想做的事。

    （海天英語老師寫作提示：圖表一課用于描述現象，圖表二可用于分析現象，作為考生論點（支持或反對買彩票）的論據。）

    Nowadays, more and more people, especially in big cities, become interested in buying lottery tickets(彩票). According to chart 1, averagely 70 percent of those polled in the survey, held in the three big cities, claimed to have dreamed of winning the big prize of five-million yuan. 85 percent of those polled in Guangzhou had had such a dream, compared with 65 percent and 60 percent, respectively, in Beijing and Shanghai.

    The attraction of buying lottery tickets is obvious. The winner can get the biggest profit for the future with only a small investment. It realizes the beautiful dream of every participant—to be richer and to improve living standards. As is shown in Char 2, should they win a big lottery, 81.3% of  people  would buy a new house, 61.7% would buy save the money for their kid’s education. And a great proportion of people say they would put the money in the bank or use it for investment or touring. However, this phenomenon has also come under criticism. Some regard it as a kind of gambling, which is potentially addictive behavior.

    In my opinion, buying lottery tickets is not so bad as some people think. Instead, it is good for society by creating new jobs and representing an important source of charity and sports causes. Of course, it is not a means of making money for individual we should encourage, because the result is hardly predictable. Therefore, we should take a positive but cautious attitude towards lottery buying behavior.