來源:環(huán)球教育網(wǎng) www.ielts.com.cn 2005-10-11

　　Some people say the government should not put money in the Arts, such as music, opera and paintings, but instead should spend more money on construction of public facilities. Discuss.

　　art:
　　Over the past several years, through the painstaking joint efforts by the government and citizens, our city has taken on a new look.
　　beautiful environment, cityscape, allocate, fund, construction, artistic projects, museum, gallery, sculptures, upgrade the artistic taste of the citizens, advocate, be channeled into artistic and cultural project, entertainment, recreation, leisure, cultivate a better taste for arts and enhance the sensitivity to beauty, enrich their spiritual life and upgrade their quality, dull and meaningless, add to the beauty of the city, boost the local tourist industry, spiritual civilization construction.
Do remember that a man does not live only by bread.
Part of the spiritual civilization construction.
Upgrade the image and status of the city.
Give the residents a better living environment,
Improve investment environment and attract investment.
Benefit future generations.
The improvement in spiritual civilization boosts material civilization.
Create more job opportunities to release the unemployment situation.

　　Construction of public facility:
sink money, in great need of funds for the construction of basic infrastructure.
A thousand and one things remain to be done.
Education, medicare, physical needs, supply of electricity and water, mechanization of agriculture
It is difficult to enjoy cultural and leisure pursuits if one’s physical needs are not satisfied.
Everything should be undertaken according to the degree of seriousness, just as the Chinese idiom goes.
give full priority to, the economic construction and education
High art appeals to only a small proportion of the population and thus benefit just few.
We have a very limited budget. We should make full use of the taxpayers’ money to benefit the common people.
There are still many people living below the poverty line, and many eligible children can not receive the basic education for lack of money.
Priority should without doubt be given to the construction of infrastructure.
Live below the poverty line,