第二节 读写任务 阅读下面的短文.然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文. Beijing is set to lift its12-year-old ban

第二节 读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Beijing is set to lift its12-year-old banon fireworks for the traditional Spring Festival holidays, probably startingfrom next Chinese Lunar New Year in January 2006.

Zhou Jidong, director of the LegislativeAffairs Office of the Beijing municipal government(市政府), told a press conferencelast Thursday that his office has completed the draft(草案) regulations on fireworksafety supervision.

Under the draft regulations , setting offfireworks will be allowed in the capital city’s eight downtown districts fromthe Eve of the Lunar New Year to Lantern Festival 15 days later. When the draftregulations were posted on the municipal government’s website for suggestions,local residents gave a total of 969 pieces of advice, with 70 per cent infavour of lifting the ban. Related surveys suggest local people who want tolight fireworks during Spring Festival range from 50.4 per cent to 86.3 percent.

In fact, the voice of opposition andcriticism has never ended since the municipal government introduced the ban in1993, considering pollution, noise, fire worries and personal injuries causedby letting off fireworks.

Opponents accused the government ofintroducing the ban only for the sake of facilitating its management role whiledisregarding the will of the people. Worse, they say, the ban threatened tobreak down the age—old traditions of celebrating Spring Festival among Chinesepeople.

Partly due to this endless objection, about106 out of a total 282 Chinese cities that had followed Beijing’s lead inbanning fireworks have already dropped the ban.

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1．概括短文的内容要点，该部分的字数大约30词左右；

2．就“should the ban be lifted”这个主题发表你的看法，至少包含以下的内容要点，该部分的字数大约120词左右；

1）解禁的利弊；

2）你的看法如何；

3）你有什么建议？

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试题答案

【答案】

This passage mainly introduces Beijing’sdraft regulations to lift its ban on fireworks for the Spring Festival holidaysdue to more and more objection from people.

As a fact, setting off fireworks can causeserious damage. First ,it can easily cause fire, which threatens people’sproperty and lives. The dropping of fire caused by fireworks in cities hasproved the benefit of the ban itself. Second, fireworks can be a threat topeople’s health and the environment, because they cause noise pollution and airpollution. On the other hand, the ban makes the traditional festival lessattractive, which in long term does harm to the relationship between familymembers and people’s value on the Chinese tradition. The fact that more andmore people, especially the younger generation, turn to celebrate foreignfestivals is really worrying.

In my opinion, to let people experiencemore fun, to let more people hold on to the Chinese tradition and value, weshould lift the ban , but only during the Spring Festival. Meanwhile, we shouldurge all citizens to be on alert during the period, and departments involvedshould get prepared for emergency.

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