Directions: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a
composition on the topic The Development of a Private Car. You should write no
less than 150 words and base your composition on the outline(given in Chinese)
below:
1.小汽车开始进入中国普通家庭。
2.小汽车带来的方便和舒适。
3.小汽车带来的交通和污染问题。
4.我的看法。
范文:
With the increase in the general standard of living, some ordinary Chinese
families begin to afford a car. Yet opinions of the development of a private car
vary from person to person.
Some claim that there are many advantages in possessing a car. It gives a
much greater degree of comfort and mobility. The owner of a car is no longer
forced to rely on public transport, and buses or taxies. With a car he can go
where he likes and when he wants, so much so that he can enjoy his leisure to
the full by making trips to the country or seaside on the weekends, instead of
being confined to his immediate neighborhood.
However, others strongly object to developing private cars. They maintain
that as more and more cars are produced and run in the street, a large volume of
poisonous gas will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causing actual
harm to the health of people. In fact, private cars contribute to traffic
congestion so greatly that advantages gained in comfort and freedom are often
cancelled out by the frustration caused by traffic jams.
Whether private cars should be developed in China is a difficult question
to answer. Yet the desire for the comfort and independence a private car can
bring won't be eliminated.