题目：政府是否该支持艺术让城市变得更好Towns and cities are attractive places. Some people suggest that the government should spend money putting in more works of art like paintings and statues to make them better to live in. To what extent do you agree or disagree?思路：1. 艺术的确能美化城市。
举例，艺术品位很高的建筑和雕塑能让城市环境变得更和谐，更有人性和温暖。
同时每天有着艺术的陪伴，城市的居民能获得更高的幸福感。
2. 第二，艺术活动能帮助城市人放松压力。
举例，在忙活了一天后，去歌剧院听听歌，或是去博物馆看看画展，都是绝佳的方式来摆脱疲惫，紧张和焦虑。
3. 第三，漂亮的艺术建筑能成为城市的名片，这是天然的旅游资源。
举例，每年都有大量的游客去参观悉尼歌剧院，这给这个城市带来了巨大的消费和新的就业岗位。
范文（Band 9）：Should the government take a responsibility on the investment in more artistic works to make urban and town areas better place for living, as some people suggest? Personally, I agree that this assertion is a wise policy for the development of a society, while it fails to consider the practical burden of the government finances.On one hand, art projects play an essential role in beautifying the environment and enriching people’s lives. For example, artistic masterpieces like architectures, paintings and sculptures with high esthetic values can not only make a city more harmonious, humanistic and graceful, but also bring pleasure, excitement and a good mood to the public. Besides, on spiritual level, art works are an ideal stress reliever. After a day of working hard, city dwellers would be inevitably trapped in fatigue physically and mentally. Therefore, engaging in art activities like symphony performance in a theatre is an excellent means by which employees can keep themselves from being overwhelmed by depression or anxiety, and finally recover the vigor, passion and active attitudes towards the life of tomorrow. What is more, artistic buildings, the icons of a city, are always viewed as tourist attractions, such as Sydney Opera House. In other words, spending on art field is a cost-efficient investment that can stimulate the local tourism industry, thus bringing more jobs and a thriving economy.On the other hand, many others the government spending should focus on more practical social aspects closely associated with daily requirements of the residents, including education, housing, healthcare, transportation and so forth. As for a government of a city with tight financial budget, if it gives the priority of investment to art works over public services, then a whole community will struggle in massive traffic paralysis, attacks of infectious diseases and more violence and social crimes in streets.In conclusion, there is a balance the government should to reach between art investment and the budgets on public services. In my view, if tax revenue permits, a reasonable allocation of expenditure on art projects is conducive to the city and individuals.（347）题目2：城市是否该安装安全措施More and more measures to improve the security in the urban area have been introduced because of the increased crime. Do the benefits of the measures outweigh the drawbacks?思路：应该安装1：它能及时地发现和制止那些正在进行的犯罪，这直接降低了社会犯罪率。
应该安装2：它能24小时的对建筑和街道进行小站托福，这让很多想犯罪的人放弃犯罪。
应该安装3：它也能对很多事故，如火灾，发出及时的警告，这能拯救生命。
不应该安装：这些严密的小站托福系统剥夺了老百姓的隐私。
他们会感觉生活在监狱里，随时都被窥视，这会降低生活中的幸福感。
范文（Band 9）：Nowadays, for the sake of public safety, security facilities, staffs and policies are overwhelming in urban areas. In my view, this trend brings more advantages than the disadvantages, and my reasons would be explored as below.Apparently, the root cause of increasing crimes and violence in cities is the inadequacy of police supervision, so that installation of security measures in buildings and streets are an effective preventive means by which the safety of urbanites will be improved. Firstly, these measures, such as on-patrol police vehicles, can immediately catch out and stop ongoing illegal activities such as thefts, robberies and vandalism, thus reducing the rate of social crimes in open space directly. Secondly, the universal camera-based monitory system that is 24-hour available plays a key role of deterrent, which reminds the would-be criminals that they have no chance to escape from the supervising of police and the punishment of justice, no matter when or where they plan to committee a crime. Therefore, these potential law offenders would give up their evil desires. In addition to the values of preventing social crimes, the network consisting of omnipresent cameras and sensors also serves as a function of warners. For example, when there emerges a fire, the security system can provides alarm signals to both residents inside and firefighters, thus helping to save people’s poverty and lives.However, I have to concede that demerits associated with setting more security devices should never be ignored, and the most worrying aspect is that this behavior violates the basic rights of citizens. In fact, no matter how useful these measures might be in terms of stopping social crimes, they inevitably offend the human privacy, because they automatically watch and record every movement and activity of people. Obviously, the strong supervision of police and monitor system is very likely to turn the living environment into a jail-like place, where every trip is traced and every private life is peeked. Expectedly, what urban residents feel is stress, discomfort, degradation of freedom and well-being, even displeasure and anger about the government.In conclusion, I believe it is worthy for a city to set up more security measures. Although there is a concern of freedom and privacy deprivation to some extent, this method can make great contributions to social-crime prevention, as well as a safer living area.（388）。