七月份最终一场考试的题型，小有难度。需求考生们能够通过自己的想象力来分析本题的观点。城市发展类别的题型算是常见题之一，尽管如此许多考生在出考场的时分也是对此题较为犯难。

　　原题如下：In many countries, planers tend to arrange shops, schools, offices and homes in specific areas and separate them from each other. Do you think the advantages of this policy outweigh its disadvantages? 20170729

　　从提问方式角度出发，本题并无难度可言。但是相信考生们对于题干中提及的这个城市规划实在是没有过多认识。也正是因为如此，限定了考生对于本题论点的思考。

　　While struck in traffic jam or wasting excessively much time on people’s way to somewhere, urban residents all over the world like to complain about their chaotic urban layout. It sounds rational that a city can be well organized by planning functional areas separately. However, on no account can urban planning be that simple.

　　开头段，不仅仅通过背景的引入点明了题目，还在最后一句表明了笔者的观点。城市规划绝不是如此简单。

　　The first complaint that people living in cities with many particular zones designed separately have must be the extremely congested traffic. Every morning thousands of private vehicles would go to the zone of schools or business from residential areas, and likewise a great number of cars would go to the zone of malls and supermarkets at weekends. This kind of directed and heavy traffic flow, without any doubt, could cause traffic jam that people frown on.

　　这种城市规划的第一个问题就是，定向的交通流量很容易导致严重的交通堵塞。因此本段就着重这一个缺点来论述。

　　What people also have to suffer from is the great inconvenience generated by city planning like this. Urban dwellers need to walk or drive a long distance to buy their daily necessities since in the living areas there would be no stores planned, and similarly they have to be dragged out of the zone they are living in to access all kinds of social services like going to hospital, school and work. In fact, those social services ought to be thought as supporting ones planned near or in housing areas.

　　这种城市规划带来的第二个显而易见的缺点就是导致了人们生活的诸多不便。为了获取社会资源，接受社会服务，人们不得不离开自己居住的区域。很多公共设施的设立不应该是单独的被划分在某个区域，而应该是与居民区相互结合相互依存的，例如医院，学校等。

　　Contrarily, advocates to urban layout like this argue that planning cities in this way makes our cities more manageable. Notwithstanding, the first principle of city planning is, of course, for bringing residents as much convenience as possible. As to city administrators, they are merely public servants whose interests can never be beyond that of people. We construct cities for offering good living environment for every citizen there but not a comfortable working environment for those city administrators.

　　在前两段都在论证这种规划的缺点之后，本段先是点明了一个这种规划的优点，那就是便于管理。再针对此优点进行反驳。城市的规划与设计的初衷不是为了便于管理，而是为了给人们提供一个便利的生活环境。不能本末倒置，喧宾夺主。

　　In a nutshell, living in the city with many zones of different functions must be a nightmare. Meanwhile, city planning is a complicated subject, and obviously it is not as easy as playing the board game Monopoly.

　　通过上面的论述，结尾段就可以很清晰地得出结论。