高中英语美文：现代大城市之我见 My Views on Large Modern Cities

高中英语美文：现代大城市之我见 My Views on Large Modern Cities
Since every coin has two sides, living in large modern cities offers us many advantages, simultaneously causes many troubles. Better education and better jobs are easy to get, and better medical care is convenient to receive in large modern cities.
People are usually well informed due to the advanced media, such as television, newspaper and net PC. Large modern cities also provide varied entertainment for the city-dwellers. The public places like cinema, bar, disco-ball are everywhere.
On the other hand, large modern cities are too big to control, so the traffic jams and traffic accidents often happen, and the social security is a headache problem. And city-dwellers have to face the housing problem. Usually a house is too expensive for the salary earning class to buy and the rent is also high. Moreover, noise and pollution in large cities bring harm to people’s health.
由于每一枚硬币都有两面性，生活在现代大城市给我们带来了许多好处，同时也带来了许多麻烦。在现代化的大城市里，更好的教育和更好的工作很容易获得，更好的医疗也很方便。
由于电视、报纸和网络PC等先进的媒体，人们通常都能很好地了解情况。现代大城市也为城市居民提供了各种娱乐。电影院、酒吧、迪斯科舞厅等公共场所随处可见。
另一方面，现代大城市太大，无法控制，交通堵塞和交通事故经常发生，社会保障是一个令人头疼的问题。城市居民不得不面对住房问题。通常，对于工薪阶层来说，房子太贵了，买不起，而且租金也很高。此外，大城市的噪音和污染给人们的健康带来危害。
simultaneously [ˌsɪməl'teɪnɪəslɪ] adv. 同时地
varied [ˈveərid]  adj. 各种各样的
dweller [ˈdwelə(r)] n. 居民，居住者
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