Task 2 · · 18 samples

The most important aim of science should be to improve people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Ideas to explore

  • Link medical research to prevention, diagnosis and treatment, explaining how each can affect people’s health.
  • Use clean-energy research as an example of science improving daily life while addressing pollution and sustainability.
  • Acknowledge that basic research may have delayed applications, then connect its support to responsible long-term benefits.

Suggested structure

  1. Introduce a clear degree of agreement and state the main reasons.
  2. Develop one paragraph on direct improvements to health and living conditions.
  3. Develop a second paragraph on science’s role in long-term social challenges and accessible benefits.
  4. Concede the value of basic research, explain how it fits your position, and conclude with a concise summary.
Useful vocabulary & examples
quality of life
A person’s or community’s general well-being and living conditions.

Medical research can improve quality of life by helping people manage illness.

clean energy
Energy produced with less pollution or environmental harm than conventional sources.

Research into clean energy can support more sustainable transport and homes.

evidence-based decisions
Choices informed by reliable findings rather than guesswork alone.

Scientific research can help communities make evidence-based decisions about food and health.

basic research
Investigation intended to expand knowledge, without necessarily having an immediate practical use.

Basic research may lead to applications that were not obvious when the work began.

Sample answers

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An increasing concern for many people around the world is the main goal of science is to develop people’s life quality of not. I completely agree with this opinion and think that people’s life improvement is the main purpose of science. First of all, I believe that the development of science helps people in every part of daily life. Yet the aim should not be reduced to immediate convenience alone. A strong case for …

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This model has been prepared by an examiner as an example of a very good answer. Scientifle developments are occurring at a great rate but some of them do not seem to be of help to people in fact, sometimes scientific innovations are regretted by those who invented them. This essay will argue that science should improve human wellbeing, but not every new invention automatically achieves that aim. The claim about an e…

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Nowadays, we live in science, and without it, our lives would not be possible in the future. Because science is not about experimental knowledge, providing a secure life in terms of high-standard education, improved transportation infrastructure, and technology-based health care support. These are all possible because of science, which has made a great contribution, directly or indirectly, to daily life. I agree that…

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