You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

　　When designing a building, the most important factor is inside use of the building rather than its outside appearance. Do you agree or disagree?

　　You should write at least 250 words. You should use your own ideas of knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

　　Which is more important, function or appearance? This has always been a hot topic for so many years.

　　As people are becoming more and more practical, they pay great emphasis on functions of things. But when people are satisfied with material life, they have spiritual requirement. And aesthetics is one of their pursuits.

　　The basic requirement of a building is its inside use. No one buys a house that he cannot live in only to appreciate its appearance.

　　As I have said, modern people are practical, so we never do things that cannot benefit us. But with the new techniques and advanced tools, up until now, human beings have no problem to construct a building to satisfy our practical use, thus in this sense, on the basis of usefulness, we have a higher requirement of beautifulness.

　　That’s why our world has become more and more beautiful.

　　But it also depends on different cases. Buildings used for exhibition should not be the same with those used for residence. Great buildings for exhibitions or used as museums are art works themselves and worthy of our appreciating.

　　The most famous is Sydney Theatre. Many people visit it for its great beauty rather than enjoying concerts.

　　If the building is only for us to live in, then there is no necessity to invite a famous architect do design such an elegant house. Such buildings are also out of our purchasing power.

　　To sum up, the inside use and the appearance are both very important. But it doesn’t mean that we should always give the same weight to the two. It should depend on concrete occasions. (271 words)