The Olympic Game or the World Cup football game is a major international sporting event and the opportunity to host this event is keenly contested by many counties. In your opinion, what are the major benefits and drawbacks of hosting an international sporting event such as the Olympic Games? 奥林匹克运动会或者世界杯足球场是重要的国际体育比赛，很多国家都在争取主办国的机会，你认为举办国际性体育比赛的利弊有哪些?
【相关提问】：
Some countries achieve international success by building specialized facilities to train top athletes instead of providing sports facilities that everyone can use. Do you think it is a positive or negative development?有人认为训练专业的体育运动员比提供人人可以使用的体育设施更能帮助国家取得成功，你认为这个观点是积极的还是消极的?(2014年7月10日雅思写作)
【文章布局】：
首段：背景介绍 + 争议焦点 + 作家立场
二段：利好的展开：一定要有对于论据的细节拓展
三段：弊端的展开：一定要有对于论据的细节拓展
尾段：再次亮明观点 + (对弊端提出解决建议)
【作家立场】：对于主办国而言，举办国际性体育的利大于弊。
【思路拓展】 利好的展开：
1. 健康角度：对于举办国而言，国际性体育比赛的主办会激发全民健身热情，提高国民基本素质及健康指数。2008年北京成功举办奥运会，就是很好的例证。
2. 教育角度：竞技体育比赛中传递的精神对于民众有教育意义。例如，不断自我超越、不懈追求完美、团队合作精神等。
3. 经济角度：对于举办国家而言，这是一个很好的盈利契机。例如，门票收入，纪念品销售，旅游收入，赞助商收入等。
4. 文化交流：举办国际体育比赛可有助于文化的多元性以及增强各国的交流。
5. 心理角度：这是激发爱国热情及增强民族的自豪感的契机。
【思路拓展】 弊端的展开：
1. 经济角度：举办国际性体育塞事是奢侈的行为，我们有更加紧迫的民生问题需要政府优先考虑，因为有限的资源和无限的民生需求是矛盾的。
2. 环境角度：大量的游客的涌入会破坏当地的自然环境，这会给当地人的生活带来烦恼，给主办国带来压力。
【小鹏哥语料库】
①支持国家举办体育比赛
1. to bid for the international sports events v申办国际体育比赛
2. to host international sports competition v主办国际性体育比赛
3. the host country n主办国
4. has become a huge undertaking v成为伟大的事业
解析：undertaking n含有风险性的事业
5. to enhance the host country’s reputation in the international arena v提高一个国家在国际舞台的美誉度。
解析：international arena n 国际舞台
6. attract global interest and attention v 吸引了全球的兴趣和关注
7. Stadium and gymnasiums could be utilized as hot tourism resources to achieve profitability, Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center is a good case in point. 室外运动场和室内运动馆可以被利用，作为热门的旅游资源来赚钱，青岛奥帆基地就是很好的例子。
解析：stadium n. 露天大型运动场
解析：gymnasiums n.健身房;体育馆
8. An additional economic benefit is the possible profit generated by the sale of TV rights, accommodations, ticket sales and visitor expenditure. 另外的利好就是由电视转播，食宿，门票销售和旅游参观带来的利润。
词汇：sponsor v.赞助;sponsorship n.赞助
9. Hosting the international sports events is a splendid opportunity to ease one’s patriotic emotion，strengthen one’s national pride and solidarity. 举办国际体育比赛是很好的契机缓解爱国情绪，以及增强民族自豪感和团结。
解析：ease one’s patriotic emotion v缓解爱国情绪
解析：strengthen one’s national pride and solidarity v 增强民族自豪感和团结
10. It can， to a large extent， kindle and stimulate the citizens’ passion of building up physique and thus enhance people’s health index and promote the basic quality of a nation’s population. 这可以很大程度上点燃和激发全民健身的热情，因此，提高国民基本素质及健康指数。
② 反对国家举办体育比赛：
1. Due the fact that preparations can be extremely time-consuming and energy-consuming，therefore，hosting international sports events sounds more of a huge waste of money and other resources to some people. 对于一些人而言，举办国际体育赛事听起来是金钱和其他资源的浪费，事实上，准备工作是非常消耗时间和精力的。
2. Inevitably, preparing the international athletic events will impose much pressure upon the host country economically while every nation has numerous social issues that need financial support from the public purse. 不可避免地，准备国际体育比赛会给主办国带来很多经济压力，而每一个国家都有需要政府支持的社会问题有待解决。
3. Football hooligans or terrorists might deliberately make some sensational nuisance. 足球流氓和恐怖分子也许会故意制造一些耸人听闻的麻烦事。
【原创范文】：
{首段｝背景介绍 + 争议焦点 + 作家立场
The opportunity of biding for the international sports events is keenly contested by numerous countries. To host global sports events such as World Cup football game or the Olympic Game actually have become huge undertaking. People have been debating the pros and cons of becoming the host country without reaching definite agreement. This essay aims to prove that the merits of hosting international athletic events outweigh the potential downsides.
解析：The merits of hosting international athletic events outweigh the potential downsides 举办国际性体育赛事利大于弊。
{二段｝利好的展开：
Indeed, many merits could be gained via holding international sports activities. One of the most positive aspects is that it will attract global interest and attention, thereby, it will become a golden chance for the host country to gain great amounts of foreign currency. Stadium and gymnasiums could be utilized as hot tourism resources to achieve profitability, Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center is a good case in point. Another merit deriving from hosting sports events is that sports competition could be a splendid opportunity to ease one’s patriotic emotion，strengthen one’s national pride and solidarity. All the people will pride themselves on their motherlands when seeing their players win the gold medal. Eventually, to host sports competition could kindle and stimulate the citizens’ passion in building up physique and thus enhance people’s health index and promote the basic quality of a nation’s population.
解析：All the people will pride themselves on their motherlands when seeing their players win the gold medal 当看到本国选手获得金牌的时候，所有人都会为祖国自豪。
{三段｝弊端的展开：
Yet, the same knife cuts bread and fingers. On no account can we ignore the adverse impacts triggered by holding global athletic competition. For a start, preparing the international athletic events will inevitably impose much pressure upon the host country economically while every nation has numerous social issues that need financial support from the public purse. Even worse, a large proportion of tourists coming from home or abroad will unavoidably ruin the natural environment and thus bring a huge burden the host country.
解析：The same knife cuts bread and fingers 凡事皆有利弊。
解析：Every nation has numerous social issues that need financial support from the public purse. 每个国家都有很多社会问题需要来自国库的财政支持。
{尾段｝再次亮明观点：
In brief, I re-affirm my conviction that although hosting international sports events might cause some problems，we can never underrate its immense advantages. What we can do is to budget carefully and strengthen efforts in terms of security and greenism.
解析：What we can do is to budget carefully and strengthen efforts in terms of security and greenism. 我们应该做到的就是周密地制定预算，加强在安保和环保方面的努力。
