英语专四写作新题型The Bike Sharing Boom in China

Model Practice 3

Read carefully the following excerpt on the bike sharing boom in China, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:

-Summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then

-Explain either the causes OR the effects of the bike sharing boom in China.

You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.

Even through Beijing’s nicotine-tinged smog you can make out the multi-colored frames, gliding through the pea soup towards a greener future. In recent months an unmissable fleet of fluorescent orange, canary yellow and ocean blue bicycles has hit the streets of urban China as part of a hi-tech bike-sharing boom that entrepreneurs hope will make them rich while simultaneously transforming the country’s traffic-clogged cities.

“We want to solve problems by getting bikes back on to the streets of our cities,” said Li Zekun, the 25-year-old marketing director of Ofo, one of the startups spearheading this 21st-century transport revolution.

From Shanghai to Sichuan province, bike-sharing schemes are being rolled out on an unprecedented scale in an effort to slash congestion and air pollution by putting a country once known as the “Kingdom of Bicycles” back on two wheels.

“For short journeys, bikes are the best form of transport,” Li enthused at Ofo’s headquarters in the Internet Finance Centre, a 26-floor building in western Beijing. “You never know when a bus might come. It might not be easy to find a taxi. Walking might take you too long and tire you out.”

Other startups, such as Mobike and Bluegogo, are seeking to get in on the act, depositing truckloads of bicycles on sidewalks and street corners across China.

Li Gang, Bluegogo’s 28-year-old chief executive, said he believed bike sharing would bring “mental joy” to millions of Chinese citizens as well as boosting their health and fitness levels. “More people will choose this healthy way to get around so the number of cars on the roads will decrease dramatically and this will really help the climate and the envi ronment,” he said.