Title: Compare Urban Areas with Rural Areas
Time limit: 40 minutes
Word limit: 120～150 words
Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below.
Outline:
1. Advantages of urban areas compared to rural areas
2. Advantages of rural areas compared to urban areas
3. Your opinion
参考范文
Compare Urban Areas with Rural Areas
Urban citizens can appreciate a more colorful life than rural citizens. Townspeople are well-informed because they have the easier access to news, while country people are uninformed because these districts are hard to get to. Urban traffic is so well-developed that the residents there often visit exhibitions and parks which are only a short bus ride away. For country people this is a major operation which involves considerable planning. Shopping, a necessary activity in everyday life is more convenient in the city than in the country. Townspeople can buy what they want at any time of a day. But rural residents go to town at most once a week. So after shopping they always stagger home loaded with heavy purchases. As for as meals and clothes are concerned, towns people are well-fed and well-dressed as there is an adequate supply of goods. But rural residents are too busy to pay particular attention to them. It is for these reasons that more and more people are piling into the city and looking for a nest there. For every one who moves out at least nine or ten are waiting to come in.
On the contrary some people are attracted by the rural area. Air pollution, noise and overcrowding which are the biggest problems confronting townspeople seem strange for rural residents. Medical studies have proved that rural residents can live longer than urban residents, because they are free from a contaminated environment. In addition, the crime rate in the city is several times higher than in the countryside. What's the commonest, wherever the city may be, the life there is much more expensive than in the countryside. So the safe, quiet and cheap life in the country appeals to many city dwellers.
Either an urban or a rural area gives pleasure and trouble, But, I believe, the suburban area has the excellencies of both and is superior to both. Happy suburbanites can appreciate not only the conveniences and variety of urban life but also peace, safety and quietness of the country. As the automobile industry increases, more and more people will not live in the city they work in. They will make their homes in one of the many large villages that have developed into new suburban areas
