Ielts sample essays collection

---------- Question 1 ----------
 
You should spend about 
40
minutes on this task. 
Some people believe that we cannot learn anything from the past for our life today, 
while others believe that history is a valuable source of information to understand 
human's life. 
Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own 
knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 
250
words. 
Example 1
People have different views about whether we can learn something from the past. 
There are various reasons 
why
we cannot learn anything from history, however, in 
my opinion, I totally agree with the idea that we should treat history as a treasure to 
be 
a 
valuable experiences for our modern life. 
Admittedly, some people would believe they can gain nothing from the past for some 
reasons. It is true that the life we live in ha
s
a different pattern compared to ancient 
time
s
, with the development of various technologies and the reform of the fabric of 
society. Therefore, we are not supposed to use 
the 
same solutions as before to cope 
with these new issues nowadays
,
like environment pollution
,
which never happened 
before. Also, if we want to make progress for our today’s lives, we must continue to 
develop new ideas when we face the problems rather than copying some from 
history. 
However, I would argue that we can and we should absorb some experiences from 
history, because some events 
that 
happened in history can be a source for our 
development. For instance, ancient Chinese people used some brilliant ideas like 
building a dam to p
reserve
some water resources in order to irrigate farms effectively 
and fight for drought. Nowadays, we still p
reserve
that m
ethod
in some areas in