The statement claims that governments must allocate financial support to major cities to keep them thriving, result from that a nation’s cultural traditions are preserved and generated in cities. I fundamentally agree with the claim to support significant cities’ prosperity. However, the reason for my point is different from the author. It is because that major cities are the economic engine of a country. It seems most retains in small towns and villages rather than a metropolis in terms of cultural traditions.
Firstly, the importance of economic prosperity to modern countries are self-evident, since it is directly related to citizens’ living standards. We cannot expect most people of economically underdeveloped country live a prosperous life. According to Aristotle, in his classic book Politics, it is the governments’ duty to make sure their people live a higher standard life. A fact that must take into consideration to achieve this goal is that economic activities in big cities account for most of the country, like New York city for America, London for the United Kingdom, Beijing and Shanghai for China. However, the metropolis also means enormous costs, such as more infrastructure investment in airports, subway, 5G. These things cost colossal money and take a long time to be repaid, which means private capital has little interest in these fields. Therefore, governments must support their mojor significant cities in financial ways to keep them run smoothly and thrive permanently.
Moreover, it is undoubted that major cities are also the cultural centers of many countries. However, culture cannot always be traditional, and cultural traditions are a particular part of the culture. Diverse culture convergences in a big city can be conventional and can be native and can be exotic. Like Hong Kong, the confluence of eastern and western culture, many foreign people settle down and bring their culture there. There are colorful big parades, consisting of Irish and other local people, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day every year, not a traditional festival in Hong Kong.
Finally, compared to diverse cultures in major cities, the small town and village seem to remain traditional. The small town and village usually have fewer foreigners from other countries, most of its residents are local people. Consequently, it is less likely to have cultural communication in the town. Then, people’s living styles and customs may have little change from one of their ancestors; in other words, cultural traditions are more likely to prevail. For example, in China, all family members gather to cook a sumptuous mail together to celebrate the Spring festival is an ancient and traditional culture. However, in recent years, many families in cities choose to reserve feasts in restaurants rather than cooking by themselves. This conventional culture will gradually decline in cities if more and more families prefer to restaurants. As for residents in a small town and village, they live a slower pace of life. The Spring Festival is the most important day for them so that they would prepare for it in advance elaborately.
In conclusion, governments must ensure major cities to receive financial support for economic reasons. If they want to pay attention to cultural traditions, the small town and village are more idealistic ones.
- TOEFL T P O 48 Integrated Writing Task 3
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, as for, for example, in conclusion, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2844.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 532.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34586466165 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80261649409 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90067499518 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524436090226 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 891.0 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0558734225 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.571428571 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.46428571429 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284440344964 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0782556335427 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0904972524249 0.0758088955206 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188833922238 0.150359130593 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.087752019925 0.0667264976115 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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