【正确答案】[范文] People Are Becoming Isolated from Each Other Though the development of information technology has made the world smaller, I think that people are becoming more and more isolated from each other. There are three reasons for this. First, due to fierce competition, modem people have to work hard in order to keep up with the pace of city life, so that they have less time to communicate with each other. Everybody is busy all the time. Moreover, living in apartment in different blocks, people are far away from each other. It is not convenient for them to meet each other freely. Finally, the popular use of telephones and overwhelming dependency on the internet prevent modern people from seeing and visiting each other quite often. Nowadays, instead of writing letters and sending postcards, people simply send an e-mail or make a phone call to send good wishes in a few minutes. In some sense, people are becoming mechanical. In order to solve the problem, people need to be fully aware of the fact that the modem ways of communication cannot fully take the place of the traditional ones. Sending e-mails cannot have the same effect as writing letters or face-to-face talk. Although we live in a convenient and busy world, we should not forget that traditional greeting way is still the warmest.

【答案解析】本题属于提纲式文字命题。提纲第1点要求说明现象，提纲第2点要求分析造成该问题的原因，提纲第3点要求提出个人建议，由此可判断本文应为现象解释型作文。根据所给提纲，本文三段成篇即可。 第一段：简述尽管科技的发展使世界变小，人与人之间却越来越疏远。 第二段：简述人与人彼此疏远的原因。 第三段：提出个人建议。 [参考译文] 人们变得彼此疏远 虽然信息技术的发展使得世界变小，但是我认为人们变得越来越孤立。 造成这一现象有三个原因。首先，由于激烈的竞争，为了跟上城市的生活节奏，现代的人必须努力工作，这使他们彼此沟通的时间越来越少，每个人都很忙。此外，人与人彼此远离，住在公寓里的不同街区不方便见面。最后，电话的流行和对互联网的过度依赖阻止了现代人的见面和访问。现在，人们只是用几分钟发送一个电子邮件或打电话，朋友表达良好祝愿而不再是写信和发送明信片。在某种意义上，人们变得机械了。 为了解决这个问题，人们需要充分意识到一个事实，那就是现代的沟通方式并不能完全代替传统的沟通方式。发送电子邮件的效果和写信或面对面的交谈不同。虽然我们生活在一个便捷且忙碌的世界，但我们不应该忘记传统的问候方式仍然是最温暖的。