本期话题:

If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

参考范文一：
If I could change one important thing about my hometown, it would be air pollution problem, and
I will give the following reasons to explain why I want to solve the problem.总起

The first and most important reason is that I hope that my hometown can become a beautiful city.As an old industrial city, my hometown has made a great deal of contribution for the country’s economic development. As a result, the natural environment of the city has been badly damaged.The forest has disappeared; the mountains have become bald(Someone who is bald has little or no hair on the top of their head. ), and the most awful(If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good. ) thing is that the air quality becomes more and more worse. People seldom see the blue sky during most time of year.不美丽

Another reason why I want to change my hometown’s air pollution situation is that the city’s development needs clean and tidy environment to attract investors. Nowadays people have come to know that the city’s environment, which is so called “software facility of the city”, plays an important role in the city’s future. For example, due to the fact that the environment of the city is very poor, many local students who pursue their study out of the city would rather find themselves a job in other cities than coming back to their hometown after they graduated.
In addition, nowadays people have paid more and more attention to their health. If air pollution problem cannot be solved as quickly as possible, people’s requirement for a healthy body will never be realized.发展

In my mind, changing air pollution will apparently be my first choice if I can change one important thing about my hometown. Fortunately people in my hometown are gradually aware of the serious problem.

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参考范文二：
With the development of my hometown in the past few years, the population is expanding very fast. The city is experiencing not only a higher birthrate than ever, but also waves of immigration（Immigration is the coming of people into a country in order to live and work there）.The streets in the city are crowed or even jammed during the rush hours. If I could change one thing about my hometown, I would develop an advanced public traffic system.总起

In order to hold such an exploding population, the city has extended miles by miles without much plan. It is common for people to travel from the southmost part to the northmost part of the city to go to work everyday. They have to spend three hours or more on the way they go to work and come home. Eight hours' work is a heavy burden, while people have to spend hours before and
after the work. A subway running through or around the city can solve the problem. People could live further away from the downtown without worrying about spending too much time on the way.Some people buy their own car or take a taxi to work everyday. It's really expensive for most of the people in the city. They can't afford paying so much on traffic fares. Many civil engineering experts advocate that sharing a public traffic system is the most efficient way.

People could reduce their fares a lot by using the public traffic system, and they can spend the money on some other things.Even there are more and more people who can afford buying a car or taking taxi everyday, It is still suggested to using the public traffic system. Because the road development can never keep up with the demand of the increasing cars, the cars may jam on the roads during rush hours.Usually, the speed of the car in that time is no higher than a bicycle! And pollution is another concern. So many private cars running in the city will bring us an environmental problem. On the other hand, the pollution from the public traffic system is much lighter.

All in all, an advanced public traffic system time efficient, cost efficient, and pollution preventing.This is the trend of advanced cities.
城市无计划扩建不行，人们买车不太好，打的多数人承受不起，于是，要发展公共交通系统---剩时，低耗，无污染---这也是大城市的标志和原因。

参考范文三：
Have you been waiting for buses at bus station for an hour in an extremely hot day? Have you been staying in a car waiting hours for the heavy traffic? Have you seen the scene that tons ofpeople are crammed(If people cram into a place or vehicle or cram a place or vehicle, so many of them enter it at one time that it is completely full. e.g.We crammed into my car and set off. ) on a small bus? Maybe you think that’s incredible, but it’s true in my hometown. So the thing I want to change most about my hometown is the mass transportation(公共交通运输)system.问题太严重，想处理公共交通问题

Mass transportation system is a very important part of a city. It influences people’s daily life,work and entertainment. An effective mass transportation system can save people’s time so that people can do more work hence to increase the city’s efficiency. If you were the mayor, would you like the people in the city to sit in the cars or stand at bus stations wait for hours or would you like them to sit in the offices or stand in factories work for hours?人们的日常生活

Moreover, a city with bad mass transportation system can’t be qualified as a good city, regardless how rich the city is and how big the city is. It’s essential for a city to have a good mass transportation system to be qualified a good city. For example, big cities such as Toronto, Tokyo,New York all have very good mass transportation systems which can bring people anywhere they want in a short time. A bad mass transportation system would limit the city to grow and it would be a handicap for the city to develop in the future.交通不好，不算好城市

Finally, as we can see, if my hometown can improve the mass transpo （责任编辑：城市网）