Từ đồng nghĩa, trái nghĩa:
growth = development = advancement = enhancement
end = stop = prevent = put an end to = deal with = solve
hunger = famine = starvation
damage = ruin = devastate
the environment = the nature = the surroundings = natural habitats
Gợi ý: Dạng bài Opinion trong đó người viết PHẢI phân tích cả 2 hướng đồng thời nêu quan điểm của mình. Bài gợi ý dưới đây đồng ý với quan điểm rằng con người không nên đánh đổi môi trường cho mục tiêu phát triển kinh tế.

Đoạn 1: Khẳng định vai trò của phát triển kinh tế trong việc giảm nghèo đói
Ý 1: Economic activities including agriculture, manufacturing and service are undoubtedly effective tools when it comes to poverty alleviation.
→ As it is understandable, simply by providing inhabitants, especially those in lower classes, with employment opportunities, these economic sectors secure people’s living standards and put an end to starvation.
→ We can effortlessly come up with the inference that the more advanced an economic system is, the larger the demand for labour there is and the further hunger is repelled.
→ In other words, improving a country’s economic stability and security means enhancing individuals’ long-term financial well-being.
Đoạn 2: Mặt trái của phát triển kinh tế đối với môi trường
Human, however, is pushing economic growth at a break-neck pace at any price, even environment destruction.
Ý 1: In order to raise output, farms are using more chemicals in fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides while factories are burning more fossil fuels, releasing more emissions into the surroundings.
→ Serious water contamination and choking air pollution, a corollary of unsustainable economic development, are causing more fatal diseases ranging from pneumonia to cancer, pushing more people back to the poverty line.
Ý 2: Economic achievements are associated with greater consumption and mass production as well as over-exploitation of natural resources.
→ To satisfy the ever-increasing demands, the current generation has been depriving the next of oil, coal, metal, wood and so on, which eventually results in chronic poverty due to resource depletion.

