（2013年上海交大《雅思考官写作（第二版）》第八章雅思官方写作题库215页第3题）
一、题目
The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming wider; the rich richer, the poor even poorer. What problems can the situation cause and what are the solutions?
二、解析
这是一道社会现象分析大类的问题对策题目。贫富差距加剧的原因主要是资源分配和机会的不平等；主要问题是社会矛盾激化、贫困人群生活困窘、富裕阶层穷奢极欲。解决方案有向富人征税、向穷人增加福利和打通教育绿色通道让穷人有机会改变命运。本题原因分析不是重点，可以一笔带过。贫富悬殊的危害和应对办法是核心。
三、一稿
1、开头
A common prosperous global community is an ideal upheld by millions throughout history. Nevertheless due to unfair distribution of resources and opportunities the divide between the poor and the wealthy are getting wider and wider. In the following essay, I would like to discuss the impairments this fortune gap posing on the society and some feasible solutions to cope with this disturbing circumstances.
2、主体#1段
The ever rising gap between the poor and the rich would lead to a multitude of troubles to both the individuals and the society. As for the respective persons, the poor would have difficulties to feed themselves, raise their kids or pay for the medical bills; while the rich might squander their more than enough wealth and cause a huge waste of social resources. The recent news report about the death of the tow pitiful seniors in the shabby abandoned shed of a shanty town in an industrial city in northern India is just a case in point. While the billionaires throw thousands of dollars in just one seafood meals illustrate how wasteful the very rich leading their meaningless（这里其实更想用“穷奢极欲的生活”一词。晚点回来确定。） life. On top of that, the increasing gap between the rich and poor could also result in the deterioration of social conflicts and cause more social instability and the violation of laws. Recently the constant rise of crime rate in the high population density urban areas of many countries and regions like New York, Paris or Rio of Brazil with serious wealth divide issue provides convincing evidence for this stuff worldwide.
3、主体#2段
In order to deal with this problems, it makes sense that the government imposes higher taxes on those very rich people and then allocate the fund to aid the poor to make their end meet, send their kids to school and buy their health insurance. Above all, the government should improve the general and vocational education quality for the urban paupers and provide them with a sort of green passage to move up the social ladder, to shuffle their fate and change their destiny. Meanwhile the down and out folks should also spare no effort to upgrade themselves and realize their potential by serving the society.
4、结尾
“Given that you are rich, please do not forget the poor buddy.” This is an old proverb passed on to us younger generations from our ancestors in our traditional Chinese culture. To battle the demon of wealth gap all of the stockholders including the government, community, the very wealthy and the penniless should shoulder their corresponding responsibilities and join hands to achieve greater equality and blissful harmony.
四、饭点。稍后回来。
