关于政府投入的托福作文范文

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Governments should spend more money in sponsoring arts than athletics （like state Olympics team）。 Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.

　　你是否同意以下观点？政府应该投入更多经费用于艺术而不是体育（例如国家奥运队），请用具体的理由和事例来说明。

　　To my mind, governments should definitely spend more money on arts than on athletics because public money should be spent according to the value it creates for society. I believe that arts offer great benefits to society whereas it is difficult to see any benefit offered by athletics. In fact, the reason governments sponsor athletics is to benefit the government, not society. If a country is successful at the Olympics, for example, its people are proud and they give credit to the government; even when a country is unsuccessful, its people support their country and blame foreigners for cheating.

　　Some say sponsoring athletics encourages people to do more sport and become healthier because successful athletes inspire people. As far as I am concerned, this may be true of the Olympics but most people pay no attention to other events. It is true some superstars, like Liu Xiang, are role models but I do not think they have changed the unhealthy habits of many people. It is very difficult to measure this benefit and, in my opinion, there are better ways to encourage people to become healthier, like making healthcare cheaper or increasing sports education in schools.

　　In contrast, I believe sponsoring arts offers unique benefits to everybody. The arts represent a country's culture and culture comes from the people. The arts express the thinking and feeling of a country's people at a particular time. Through arts, we learn about more our own culture and we build bridges between different cultures.Moreover, the arts inspire creativity and critical thinking, which are very important in the modern world. The way I see it, it is the responsibility of governments to provide these necessary skills to the widest population and this can be effectively achieved by investing in access to arts and arts education.