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  3. For this part, you are required to write a composition on the topic What Should Be Done with Urban Congestion ? You are required

For this part, you are required to write a composition on the topic What Should Be Done with Urban Congestion ? You are required

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问题     For this part, you are required to write a composition on the topic What Should Be Done with Urban Congestion ? You are required to use specific reasons and details to develop your essay. You should write in no less 200 words and base your composition on the outlines below:
    Outlines:
    1)我国迅速发展的汽车业促使许多人拥有了私家车，但也带来了一系列问题。
    2)有人认为解决问题的出路在于多修公路和停车场；有人提议改善城市交通设施，限制私家车的使用。
    3)你的看法。
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答案 What Should Be Done with Urban Congestion? Rapid development of our country’s auto industry has stimulated an increasing number of people to own private vehicles. With that increase, a series of problems follow along. Many drivers find themselves struggling with unendurable traffic jams every day. Downtown streets are often congested because of temporary parking cars. More ironically, drivers often have to drive around and around a parking lot many times before they can ultimately get a vacant position. Thus amid the complaints about the lack of spacious roads and parking lots appear the popular demand for the construction of more roads and parking lots, and the opponents to the increasing number of ownership of private cars, claiming motor vehicles account for one third of the country’s total petroleum consumption, and that China will rely more on foreign oil imports as the country’s consumption already exceeds its production. Actually, China is feverishly constructing roads and highways. For example, more arable land has given way to roads and parking lots, but the results turn out to be hardly satisfactory. So the solution to urban congestion does not lie solely in road construction but in public transportation improvement and government intervention. By improving public transportation, all cities should set up a sound public traffic network to help residents’ daily commuting, in addition to building more mass transit. Speeding up the buses crawling along and arranging for more reasonable stops available, though pressing and demanding, are all feasible methods. At the same time, government taxes car sales or gas sales for potential air pollution and the costs of building roads, or imposes a "road congestion fee" on private car owners. For example, a system can be set up to charge cars that drive downtown during rush hour a lot more khan usual. Then, people will avoid the fee by parking outside the special-fee area and taking mass transit into town. When all these external costs from private car use are accounted for, people will hesitate to buy private cars and choose to take mass transit. All in all, to tackle the problem of urban congestion, I insist priority should be given to public transport, because expanded use of public transportation decreases dependence on foreign oil, improves air quality, relieves traffic congestion and parking problems and helps hold off wage inflation by providing a lower cost alternative to the increasingly expensive driving habit.
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