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Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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真题还原
Choose one of the following transportation vehicles and explain why it has
changed people's lives? Automobiles? Bicycles? Airplanes? Use specific reasons
and examples to support your answer.
范文
Although the invention of the airplane did revolutionalize the world's
long-distance travelling, what has really changed the way people live would be
the car. In terms of the impact on society, the automobile would not be replaced
by the airplane, as if the horse having been replaced by the automobile. To
explain the importance of the motorized vehicles on ground transportation over
that of the flying vehicles, one has only to decide which one would be more
difficult to do without.
The airplane became the symbol of the twentieth century as did the
automobile in the nineteenth century. The flying vehicle is shrinking the planet
to the point that a person can fly anywhere in the world in a matter of hours.
Not only have modern jet planes made travel fast and safe, but they have
provided many other services that could be of help to society. The benefits
range from crop dusting to fighting forest fires to overnight delivery of
packages and merchandise to chasing hurricanes. Also, the impact of the aviation
technology has redefined the warfare, turning battle into a long-range affair
fought at arm's length. In view of these advantages, it seems hard to do without
the airplane.
Nevertheless, it seems even harder to do without the automobile. To begin
with, mathematics matters. The number of motorized vehicles far exceeds that of
flying vehicles by hundreds of millions, which may serve to explain the
over-riding effects of engine carts on wheel over the routine lives of the most
people. Once the automobile became a practical and reliable source of
transportation in the past century, it changed almost everything world-wide. The
horse and cart began to disappear gradually while much of the country was paved
over to make room for endless ribbons of asphalt. Among other things, the
automobile has brought about obvious economic effects, making it possible to
truck in goods that would otherwise be difficult to acquire. More than the
airplane, the automobile gives people such a degree of mobility and personal
freedom as never before seen.
In comparing the influence of both types of transportation, the automobile
appears to be more important than the airplane since it affects more people's
lives more directly. Without the automobile, it is no doubt unpleasant to
imagine using the horse and cart again, particularly during the summer heat with
intolerable odor and manure. However, without the airplane, people could still
dream to fly anytime. |
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:23:17