181. Land In your country: needs to be left in its natural condition or needs to be
developed?
In your country, is there more need for land to be left in its natural condition or is there more need for land
to be developed for housing and industry? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
『分析』
注意，根据题目要求，一定要结合我们国家的情况去说。中国人口密度很高，所以，我们选择后者应该更
容易写一些。
• 中国解决住房的需求(要地，也要资本)
• 发展工业能够解决资本问题
• 发展工业，也能解决失业问题，进一步繁荣经济
『范文』
With a population accounting nearly for one quarter of the world population, my country, China, has been
suffering from serious loss of arable land, which now hardly accounts for 7% of overall arable land of the world.
Yet some people simply do not realize that land loss is so crucial that we one day might incapable of averting that
catastrophe if we now close our eyes to it.
Industrial development without careful consideration regarding land preservation has caused problems more
serious than people can ever imagine. Take the great Three Gorges dam for example, which will be put into
operation next year. While the country benefits from gargantuan potential of electricity generation, we have to face
up to various environmental conservation issues concerning geological and ecological environment along both
river sides and whole upper reaches. The professional designers of the great dam now have to work out a practical
way to prevent and remedy pollution effectively, which has already been the focus of world attention.
After the entrance of the WTO, industry development is more and more important for our country, yet we
should be careful about the pollution which is inevitably caused by industry. Recent surveys have shown that refuse
treatment engineering is not well financed in China, while attentions are drawn to those much more obvious
achievements. Industrial pollution accidents occur far more frequently in our still developing country than in other
more advanced countries. Urban population also produce astoundingly large amount of pollution. Today the
alleged white pollution is creeping all over the country—people throw plastic bags, films everywhere, never
feeling anything wrong.
We no doubt need land either for natural condition or for industry, and it seems we need more if possible.
Nevertheless, we live in a world where everything has its cost, and some day in the future, I believe, we will
inescapably pay for what we have ignored.
