题目：
Demand for gas and oil is increasing and so finding new sources in remote and untouched areas is a necessity.
Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
翻译：随着对石油和天然气需求的增长，人类有必要去偏远和未受污染的地区寻找新的资源。这样做是否利大于弊？
话题：社会类-环境类
类型：利弊分析
关键词： gas and oil, remote and untouched areas
解析：
首先来个大家解析一下这两组关键词，这两组关键词未理解到位会导致不好想点。
1. Gas and oil：
Oil industry： 可用替换词：Petroleum industry
相关词汇： exploration- 寻找 extraction- 提取
Environmental impact:
water pollution - responsible for water pollution - refining and oil spills
Air pollution - The combustion(燃烧) of fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases and other air pollutants as by-products.
Climate change- The greenhouse gases due to fossil fuels drive global warming.
2. Remote and untouched areas:
可用替换词：unexplored places, pristine(原始的，未开发的) places, unspoiled(未遭人类破坏的) areas, wilderness regions,untouched wilderness
未经开发的地方是指哪里？：如一些沙漠，山地，极地Deserts, mountains and Arctic areas；如南极北极，俄罗斯西西伯利亚，墨西哥湾的深海地区等。
开发这些地方会有什么不好影响？我引用雅思阅读中的一句话简明的说一下（剑桥雅思5p86页）：These regions are fragile（脆弱）( highly vulnerable to abnormal pressure). 这些地区一般比较脆弱，对人类的开采行为抵抗力低，生态系统极易受到破坏。
把两组关键词说明白，相信小伙伴们对于这个题目怎么写会有更清晰的想法。去偏远地区开发石油天然气，当然有其好处，能够为人类增加更多的可使用的能源，缓解用能压力。
但其弊端明显且巨大，石油和天然气属于非再生性能源，开采这些能源会严重影响生态环境，尤其是对于极地等生态敏感地区。(Drilling for non-renewable energy resources is incredibly damaging to the ecosystem and these remote areas are often in sensitive places, such as the Arctic or National Parks in the United States and Canada.）
还记得前几天微信有几篇爆款文关于南极冰川融化，北极甲烷爆发，珠峰长草释放病毒，文中披露了很多令人震惊的细节。
曾经冰天雪地，寒气袭人的南极由于异常的高温和光照，出现由衣藻苏醒带来的赤红色的血雪。由于冰雪融化，北极冻存的甲烷气体从湖水中不断涌出。海拔6159米处，珠峰本应极寒之地竟冒出小草苗。
大自然已经向人类放出了如此多的预警，地球上的三极均已出现状况，而人类如果继续贪婪，无节制的开采下去后果不堪设想。因此，damaging these untouched areas is too much of a risk.
而石油天然气燃烧导致的环境破坏，气温升高，影响的远不止是花花草草，自然环境这么简单。
因为南极气温超过20℃，南极海象集体坠崖。
南极气温升高后，冰面融化，海象生存及捕食的难度大大提升。过去它们睡在冰面上，潜水捕食，生活非常简单。（They used to sleep on the ice, dive down, eat the food, easy.）
然而现在，冰面融化后，它们不得不上岸生存（there's no option but to come to land)，想吃到东西，就要游上百米，跳悬崖，而这一跳可能就是死亡。（ Now, they're swiming a hundred miles and then climbing cliffs. They are exhausteed and falling down and are either being killed falling or just crushing each other. ）
这种死亡还不是quick death，它们受重伤，内伤，之后就躺在那里，忍痛等待死亡（They get internal injuries and they just lie there.) 这就是气候变化带来的悲惨现状（This is the sad reality of climate change.)
人类的生活在不断的进步着，当人们行走于城市中，面对着钢筋水泥，摩天大楼，在灯火通明的夜晚，感受整个城市繁华的呼吸时，是否会想到，这样的繁华，很多是建立在毁灭与血水之上的是否会担心下一次浩瀚深渊泉源开，洪水淹没这一世繁华，带走这贪婪与败坏。
因此，相比绞尽脑汁的去开发这些能源，毁坏环境，人们可以花更多的精力，去寻找alternative energy sources（替代性能源）。
太阳能，风能等都可以有效减少人类对于石油天然气的依赖。（Solar, wind and tidal energy could replace our reliance on oil and gas.）开发清洁可再生能源，可持续的发展才是人类长久生存之道。
好了，说了这么多，咱么来看看本次的精选范文吧：
As countries around the world continue to modernise and develop, there is more consumerism（消费主义）, industry, and transport and a corresponding need（一个与之相应的需求，就是指与前面所说的现代化发展相应的需求） for more gas and oil. One option to meet this demand is to find it in otherwise untouched and remote places, such as the North Pole (具体化). However, I believe that doing this is not the right solution.
（开头段：背景介绍+自己观点）
There are benefits to such a strategy. This is firstly the fact that people wish to improve their living standards, particularly in developing countries, and fuels such as oil and gas allow this as they enable the heating of homes, the running of cars and planes, and the production of goods.（大家可以使用的，人类为何需要能源的例子） All of these result in higher living standards, and thus we need to keep finding new sources since we will eventually run out.（好搭配：用光，耗尽+能源、资源）
（主体1段：好处段，给出能源开发的好处/必要性，层层剖析了人类为何需要能源）
However, despite this, there are major problems with exploiting untouched and remote locations. One issue is that we will end up potentially jeopardising（原型：jeopardise-动词-危害） what are beautiful landscapes. For instance, an area which countries would like to drill is the Antarctic, home to many glaciers and animals such as polar bears and penguins. Drilling here would harm the habitat, and in particular, any spillages(溢出，比如天然气溢出会危害环境) would be disastrous(adj.灾难性的，损伤大的，例句：Pollution can have disastrous effects on the delicately balanced ecosystem.) to the environment.（划线部分为大家可以直接背诵的好例子）
（主体2段：弊端段，讲开发的弊端-毁坏当地环境）
Not only this, due to heath issues and global warming we should no longer be seeking to use such forms of energy. It is evident that the use of these fuels on a wide-scale（adj. 大规模的；广泛的） has led to（due to和lead to都是很好的表示因果的方式，替换because/because of） the pollution of many cities and the subsequent poor health of its citizens where car use is so high. Also, carbon dioxide is getting released into the atmosphere, and this may be endangering our very existence. Therefore, we should be aiming to utilise more eco-friendly options（更环保的选择） such as wind and sun for power and electricity for cars.
（主体3段：弊端段-开发的第二个弊端-危害人们身体健康）
To conclude, although there is an advantage of finding new places to get oil and gas, which is that we can sustain and improve our living standards, the negative impacts outweigh this as we will damage those environments, as well as continue to harm our health and the planet. （对两个弊端段的总结）
（结尾段：总结，重述自己观点加总结文中观点）
本文采取的文章结构为：
开头段：己方观点弊大于利
好处段
弊端段1
弊端段2
结尾段
一个段只写明一个主要论点，把这个论点进行具体展开，层层阐述。
可用句型提炼：
One option to do sth is ……( 达成某事的方式之一是…..)
文中例句：One option to meet this demand is to find it in otherwise untouched and remote places.
There are major problems with doing sth. (做某事是有弊端的)
文中例句：There are major problems with exploiting untouched and remote locations.
It is evident that …… (很显然)
文中例句：It is evident that the use of these fuels on a wide-scale has led to the pollution of many cities and the subsequent poor health of its citizens where car use is so high.
To conclude, although +反方观点， which is that+文中反方观点论证总结， the negative/positive impacts outweigh this as +文中我方观点总结. （结尾可用的大总结句）
文中例句：To conclude, although there is an advantage of finding new places to get oil and gas, which is that we can sustain and improve our living standards, the negative impacts outweigh this as we will damage those environments, as well as continue to harm our health and the planet.
