阅读下面的短文, 然后按照要求写一篇 150 词左右的英语短文。
Every morning, when I drive past the street corner, I can always see the big sign standing outside the gas station.
The sign lists the price of gas per gallon (加仑). However, in the past few months, the price never seemed to decrease. One day, it went from US$2.85 to US$3.55 per gallon.
The car is one of the most popular forms of transportation in southern California; people even say, “We can not live without cars!” “We don’t get any benefit from the increasing prices at all,” complains my friend Raymond. “I might choose to ride my bicycle from now on! I will leave the car at home; maybe I should give it away to the museum since we are not going to use it anyway.”
According to scientific predictions, we will run out of gasoline in 50 years. People will not be able to drive cars, take planes or even sail ships. When the time comes, hardly anything will function normally.
In this case, governments will have to provide funds (基金) to research departments to develop new forms of energy on which cars can run. One idea, for example, is that people in California will be able to drive solar- powered cars since it is extremely sunny most of the time.
In other states, there are people developing new forms of fuel involving alcohol mixed with gasoline or new hybrids (混合物) like gasoline plus corn oil. Who knows what forms of new energy people will be using in the future? Without problems showing up, there will be no new solutions. Society needs to move forward. Sometimes, we need these challenges to motivate (激发) us to achieve great things.
[ 写作内容]
1. 概括短文的内容要点, 该部分大约 60 词;
2. 以 “Is the high price of gas a bad thing?”为话题, 谈谈你的同学的不同看法和发表你的观点, 至少包含以下的内容要点, 该部分大约 90 词:
a) 以你同学家用车为例, 谈谈你的同学对该问题的不同看法;
b) 你是如何看待这个问题的, 发表你的看法;
c) 你的家人如何对待油价高企。
