谢振礼 托福范文: 大人游戏
TOEFL Independent Writing
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Topic:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Games are as important for adults as they are for children. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Essay:
Play is beneficial for grown-ups as well as for children because it is one of human brain’s favorite ways to add fun to life. Life is more fun if adults play, and the fun of playing today’s video games can be a source of relaxation for those adults who feel stressed from work and family commitments. In spare time, games are important for adults to reduce their stress and help them feel being rejuvenated.
In most cases, work is stressful; but, after a hard day, stress is usually less with play. It can be seen that adults who rarely play become brittle in the face of stress. In comparison, those who play games are feeling more relaxed. This is as if to mean that the opposite of play is not exactly work; rather, it is stress. Just as children need freedom and time to play, so adults should allow themselves to play, such as having fun in video games. Unfortunately, there seems to be a poverty of play for many adults who probably think that play is a waste of time, or even a luxury, when actually play is a necessity to loosen up some of those daily burdens in today’s increasingly stressful world. According to scientific research, play can trigger the release of endorphins: the body’s natural ‘feel-good’ chemicals that reduce stress. And this finding underlines that games are as important for adults as they are for children whose work is play.
Besides the benefit of easing stress, games can also be an important tool to keep people feeling young and energetic. Literally, people are never too old to play, and play should not end with childhood. It is true that play is hard to maintain as people get older and become less playful, but they should not miss the fun of play. Believe it or not, people who do not play because they feel old, but they feel old because they stop playing like children. It may be said that a child who does not play is not a child, but the adult who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him or her. So, playing games, as an adult, is time when people can forget getting old, which is possible since games can energize and enliven them through improving brain functions and preventing memory problems at the same time. If children are born knowing the need to play, it follows that adults can be mentally better off keeping that natural need alive in their adulthood.
In conclusion, such diversions as video games are as important for adults as they are for children because of their benefits. Therefore, adults and children alike need to play, if only for the fun of it. That said, the importance of games for adults lies chiefly in reducing stress and remaining young-minded.
