观点类大作文，社会类话题
People’s shopping habits depend more on the age group they belong to than any other factors. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
题目来源：2016年4月30日大陆雅思大作文
题目大意：
人们的购物习惯更多与他们的年龄有关而不是其他因素，是否同意？
思路解析：
这是一道观点类大作文，讨论的导致购物习惯的因素。审题时候要注意，题目指出了一个比较关系：年龄对人们购物习惯影响更大，因此我们可以对这个逻辑关系进行反驳，即影响购物习惯的因素有很多，很难进行量化和比较。下面我们来看下具体观点。
影响购物习惯的因素有很多：年龄、性别、性格、文化习惯等。年龄角度来说，年轻人会更喜欢也更容易接受新鲜、潮流的东西，年长的人可能会更喜欢稳重、实用性更高的商品。性别角度来说，男生在购物时，目的性往往更加明确，就是为了购买他们缺少且需要的东西。而女生会将购物作为一种娱乐活动来进行，他们并不一定真的缺少什么，而是享受购物过程中所带来的快乐，并且他们也更倾向与小姐妹一起逛街。文化角度来说，不同国家地区的人会因为自己的传统文化而购买一些商品，比如中国人会购买一套红色的衣服在新年穿，因为红色代表喜庆。美国在感恩节买火鸡吃，因为冒险者开拓美洲大陆时，火鸡是当时非常多见也是他们赖以生存的食物之一。诸如这样的因素还有很多，我们会发现很多消费行为背后其实跟年龄真的没有关系，因此，武断的认为“购物习惯更多的和年龄相关是不合理的”
范文示例：
Shopping has become a national pastime in many countries and people’s buying behavior has recently received long overdue attention as a social issue. It is seemingly evident that young people have different shopping ideas, compared with the elders as they pay more attention to enjoyment and pleasure in their shopping experience, while elder people attach more value to actual shopping results and commodity price. Still, I believe it is arbitrary to jump to the conclusion that age imposes the major influence on people’s buying habits.
In addition to age, gender is an indispensable factor researchers cannot afford to ignore when they attempt to dig into consumer behavior. Generally, shopping is ideally the hobby of females. Females “love shopping”, they are naturally programmed to invest in their desires and relish happiness in return. As the study says, “Men buy for their needs and women shop for their wants”. When shopping, females also behave in a different manner as that of males. They like their female friends to accompany them whereas males prefer shopping alone.
Furthermore, the needs, processes, and selection that the human brain goes through when making a purchase are often far more complex than the buyer might imagine. A bunch of other factors such as personal history, cultural considerations and psychological factors need to be taken into account. Some people buy certain brands to support their personal or professional image. Specifically，some buy products that are either perceived as fashionable, trendy or high class or that fit into a particular subculture or peer group. Some people make their purchase decision when tempted by product variation and price competition, as they are prone to be persuaded by those promotional strategies and tactics such as posters and banners during the sales period, advertising bursting in the radio and television, which is quite common among all age groups.
Based on these insights, there is a need to examine the phenomena in a further and more comprehensive context. Before that, I am inclined to believe it is the interaction of these factors that shapes a person’s purchase pattern and dictates how they make buying decisions.
相关词汇和语法结构：
overdue 逾期的
seemingly 貌似，表面上
arbitrary 武断的，随心所欲的
relish 从……获得乐趣，渴望，享受
subculture 亚文化
variation 变化，变异
tactic 策略，手段
dictate 命令，决定
