寫在前面：沒想到旅遊的題目能出到這么難，想不偏/離題都難。據我了解多數人寫偏了或者自己不知自己寫了什麼。這道題必須鎖定下面兩個要點：
1、這是由不同文化背景的人去他國旅遊而得到的understanding和引起的tension，忽略國際旅遊或不同文化均以離題處置，英語高手可憑TASK1得高分換得最後得分5；
2、這是argumentation的D型題，tension和understanding兩方面都必須提及，只說一方面而不提另一方均以偏題處置，程度高者可得5分。作文的評分標準首條：answering the question accurately跟英語表達水平的高低沒多大關係，這次是否會大開“殺戒”呢？普通考生，尤其是高中生該有什麼對策呢？等這次outcome出來後再來斟酌。(附範文)
-----------廣州仲愷雅思培訓中心老師賴勁松。
International tourism now is the biggest industry in the world. Unfortunately, it creates tension rather than understanding between the peoples from different cultures.To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above opinion?
----------argumentation-----totally 353 words-------------------Tourism can create jobs and other opportunities for almost all communities. Therefore, Governments worldwide have worked out many incentives aimed at developing overseas market. Personally I believe, tension is always accompanied with influxes of foreign visitors, which has already overshadowed understanding achieved via travel. (44words)
Let me start by talking about the tension brought by international tourism. Last Independence Day Festival , I , followed by a couple of friends, traveled to a small county located in Bolivia. Surprisingly we happened to see thousands of people singing and dancing on the street. Three guys dressing in local costume swayed badly towards us, bringing drinking beer for us. Owing to our arrival in a totally new place, we declined to take any alcohol in case of being entrapped. Unexpectedly quarrels occurred as a consequence of language barrier. What’s worse, one of them spitted on us, whose behavior turned our journey to be a trip of humiliation and resentment. As a matter of fact, the local residents were celebrating yearly Beer Festival. Our refusal was regarded as a bad manner to look down upon them. For this reason, I would infer that international tourists usually spend only one or two days staying in the same place. It is impossible for them to thoroughly have a good knowledge of the local culture. Consequently misconception and disputes happen frequently between peoples embodied with varied culture backgrounds. (185 words)
Now let me turn to the discussion of understanding gained on the tour. Generally a western tourist is fond of visiting different places with exploring different customs, particularly those primitive cultures in remote mountainous areas. Such an exploration can expose himself with more opportunities of communicating with local people, which might be considered as a good way to better understand the local culture. However, different interpretation and religion eventually would probably lead him to conclude that those odd traditions handed down generation by generation in the destined region are no more than a superstitious belief. Such understanding does little good to maintain sound relationship between nations. (106 words)
All in all, global travel should be discouraged until understanding amid peoples overwhelmingly outweighs negative effects like tension.