Directions:

Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should

1)describe the drawing briefly.

2)explain its intended meaning, and

3)give you comments.

预测范文

The human history has been considered as a course of man’s migration from the country to the city, so urbanization is seen as the symbol of human civilization. Nevertheless, as is shown in the cartoon, as we enjoy the conveniences of urban life,we also have to suffer many problems that urbanization brings to us. Among them,the environmental pollution is one of the most serious.

To begin with, the explosion of city population causes harm to our natural environment. The growing urban population damages the ecosystem with a huge amount of household rubbish. Rubbish hills dumped on the outskirts are a case in point. Even if people bury or burn the waste, it may bring about soil or air pollutions.Furthermore,hundreds of tons of waste water from factories are contaminating city rivers day and night.Gone are the days when people enjoyed swimming in the river and fishing on the bank. Sometimes, worse still, untreated sewage pouring from chemical factories poisons directly urban water supply. Drinkable water has become a rare resource, and people have to take in somewhat polluted water. Then one of its results has been the emergence ofmany new diseases and more and more cancer cases.

Accordingly, it is imperative for us to take drastic measures. For one thing, we should appeal to the authorities to make strict laws to control urbanization. For another, we should enhance the awareness of people that sustainable development is extremely vital to us.

参考译文

人类历史就是人类从乡村迁移到城市的过程，因此城市化被视为人类文明的象征。然而，如图所示，在我们享受城市便利的同时，我们也不得不承受城市化带来的很多问题。环境污染是其中最严重的问题。

首先，城市人口爆炸破坏了我们的自然环境。日益增长的城市人口以堆积如山的家庭垃圾破坏了生态系统。一个恰当的例子就是倾倒在郊区的垃圾山。即使人们填埋或焚烧垃圾，也能导致土壤或空气污染。此外，成百上千吨工业废水日夜污染者城市河流。人们享受在河中游泳，岸上垂钓的日子一去不返。有时更糟的是，化工厂未经处理的废水直接毒害了城市供水。饮用水已成为稀缺资源，人们不得不饮用多少污染的水源。后果之一就是很多新型疾病的蔓延以及越来越多的癌症患者。

因此，我们继续采取严厉措施。一方面，我们应该呼吁政府制定严格的法律来控制城市化。另一方面，我们应该提高人们的意识：可持续发展对我们至关重要。

亮点词汇

be considered as被认为是

course过程

migration迁移

urbanization都市化

symbol象征

civilization文明

nevertheless然而

cartoon漫画

convenience便利

urban都市的

suffer遭受

environmental环境的

pollution污染

to begin with首先

explosion爆炸

population人口

cause harm造成破坏

natural environment自然环境

growing日益增长的

damage破坏

ecosystem生态系统

a huge amount of大量的

household家庭

rubbish垃圾

dump倾倒

outskirt郊区

a case in point一个恰当的例子

even if即使

bury掩埋

burn燃烧

waste垃圾

soil土壤

hundreds of成百上千的

waste water废水

factory工厂

contaminate污染

day and night日以继夜

gone are the days一去不返

bank河岸

worse still更糟的是

untreated未经处理的

sewage废水

pour倾倒

chemical化工的

poison毒害

directly直接

supply供应

drinkable可饮用的

rare稀缺的

take in吸收

somewhat多少

polluted污染的

emergence蔓延

disease疾病

cancer癌症

case病例

accordingly因此

imperative急切的

take measures采取措施

drastic严厉的

appeal to呼吁

authority政府

make strict laws制定严格的法律

control控制

enhance the awareness提高意识

sustainable可持续的

extremely非常湖南大学考研分数线

vital重要的

点评

除考研写作曾于1991年考察“Where to Live——in the City or the Country”(住在哪里——住在城里还是乡下)这一城市化话题之外，国内其他写作考试也曾多次考察，如1998年专业八级写作真题“One Major Problem in the Process of Urbanization”(城市化进程中的一个主要问题)等。

佳句拓展

1、Unfortunately, however, on balance it would seem that human activity has caused more harm than good to the Earth and its inhabitants, both human and animal.

但令人遗憾的是，总的来看，人类活动给地球以及地球上居住的生物(包括人类和动物)带来的危害要大于好处。

2、Sadly, one is led to the conclusion that human activity has caused more harm to the Earth than making the Earth a better place to live.

可悲的是，由此人们只能得出一个结论，即人类活动更多的是在破坏地球，而不是在改善地球的居住环境。

3、Ironically, the activities given as examples here are meant to improve human life, by the products produced, but due to careless usage and methods, they have damaged the Earth in the process.

具有讽刺意味的是，以上列举的生产活动原本是要通过生产出的产品来改善人们的生活，但由于各种滥用资源行为的存在，这些活动又给地球造成了破坏。