托福独立写作难点话题思路解读和高分范文赏析：land needs to be left in natural condition

　　Land in your country: needs to be left in its natural condition or needs to be developed?

　　In your country, is there more need for land to be left in its natural condition or is there more need for land to be developed for housing and industry? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

　　写作思路展开结构分析

　　这道题目要注意审题，in your country这个前提条件不能忽视，要结合国家的情况来说，不要一上来就直接写环保的那一套理论。而从实际角度来说，中国人口密度很高，所以，我们选择后者应该更容易写一些。开发土地的好处主要有解决住房的需求/发展工业能够解决资本问题/能解决失业问题，进一步繁荣经济等等。当然，保护环境也不是不能说，但要结合实例比如中国的沙漠化问题，沙尘暴现象等等来展开。

　　本话题高分范文赏析

　　With a population accounting nearly for one quarter of the world population, my country, China, has been suffering from serious loss of arable land, which now hardly accounts for 7% of overall arable land of the world. Yet some people simply do not realize that land loss is so crucial that we one day might incapable of averting that catastrophe if we now close our eyes to it.

　　Industrial development without careful consideration regarding land preservation has caused problems more serious than people can ever imagine. Take the great Three Gorges dam for example, which will be put into operation next year. While the country benefits from gargantuan potential of electricity generation, we have to face up to various environmental conservation issues concerning geological and ecological environment along both river sides and whole upper reaches. The professional designers of the great dam now have to work out a practical way to prevent and remedy pollution effectively, which has already been the focus of world attention.

　　After the entrance of the WTO, industry development is more and more important for our country, yet we should be careful about the pollution which is inevitably caused by industry. Recent surveys have shown that refuse treatment engineering is not well financed in China, while attentions are drawn to those much more obvious achievements. Industrial pollution accidents occur far more frequently in our still developing country than in other more advanced countries. Urban population also produce astoundingly large amount of pollution. Today the alleged white pollution is creeping all over the country—people throw plastic bags, films everywhere, never feeling anything wrong.

　　We no doubt need land either for natural condition or for industry, and it seems we need more if possible. Nevertheless, we live in a world where everything has its cost, and some day in the future, I believe, we will inescapably pay for what we have ignored.