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TaskThese days, people in many cities know little about their

neighbors and do not have a sense of community. What do you think are the causes
and what solutions can you suggest?

1.TPO

Undeniably, indifference and ignorance find their way into neighborhoods. In the
essay, the underlying reasons and the practical moves will be expounded.

The primary factor leading to the significant alienation among neighbors is the
prosperity of economy. In the past, individuals heavily relied on the community to
rear livestock or grow rice and vegetables while in the present, people depend on
themselves to work in the office and have meals in the restaurant. More importantly,
to ensure an advantageous position in the face of stiff competition, employees have
to spend the majority of their time working in office or at home, so they cannot
afford to spare time gossiping about weather, dogs and new babies with other
occupants.

Another contributing element is the intrusion of a variety of entertainments brought

by advancing technology. Previously, the single recreation form of television forces
residents to watch one film together. Currently, portable devices such as I-Phone, I-
Pad, Kindle enable inhabitants to live in the virtual communities created by social
networking websites, so they distain to socialize with other dwellers in real life.

To reverse the tendency, the government and the community committee should
stand out and shoulder their responsibilities correspondingly. For one thing, the
government can invite advertising agencies to design public service advertisements
to raise people's awareness of community. For another, the community committee
should launch mini-games or sports activities regularly or on festivals or holidays, so
as to engage more denizens in the neighborhood.

In a nutshell, a supportive community is gradually turned into a lonely island by a

self-reliant and competitive economic pattern and diversified technological
innovations, the status quo that can only be altered by the endeavors of both the
authority and the community leaders.

(286 words)

2.

Unsurprisingly, a growing number of citizens are thoughtless and indifferent to their

neighbors, contributing to undoubtedly. Lacking a sense of community. The essay
aims to explore looming reasons and come up with effective measures to solve this
problem.

Firstly, the situation of individuals knowing little about their neighbors is mainly
attributed to the pace of modern life. Under great living pressure, many people have
to go to work early and share little time with their neighbors, especially those who
live far from their workplaces because of traffic congestion. Besides, more and more
people are accustomed to having meals in restaurants such as fast food restaurants
instead of going back home, not to mention exhaustion they get after working the
whole day, resulting in lower possibility of meeting and communicating with
neighbors.

On the other hand, an essay access to cutting-edge functions of mobile phones such
as online shopping and looking through twitter and so on leads to ignoring
communication with familiar person around them even sitting in front of the table
and having a meal, let alone spending time with neighbors.

It is high time to take constructive measures to prevent the phenomenon from

getting worse. First and foremost, the community committee is suggested to organize
innovative activities in the community to attract more residents to attend and
recognize with each other. In addition, the government and mass media are
supposed to spread the significance of socializing with neighbors by various kinds of
advertisements, such as TV commercials and bus posters, in order to strengthen
individuals awareness of maintaining harmonious relationship with neighbors.

(263 words)
3.panda

In the current era, there is a phenomenon that urban residents are not eager to
communicate with their neighbors and they do not have a sense of community. This
essay may examine the possible reasons and potential solutions to reversing this
tendency.

To begin with, modern technologies may attract individuals attention than face-to-
face communication does. It is acknowledged that online communities have
developed and become a fad among the public. For many citizens, they can bear
staying at home for several days without meeting others, but they may suffer from
no access to the Internet since they need to communicate with other online friends.
Then, residents actually have a sense of community, but what they care about is
virtual communities, not traditional communities any more.

In addition, urban inhabitants may have insufficient time and vigor to interact with
people nearby. Compared to workers in rural areas, employees in downtown may be
more occupied their work and working overtime may not be a rare case. When these
exhausted employees arrive at their own home, what they want is to take a shower
and sleep immediately. Thus, too much working burden actually hinders people from
communicating with others, which leads to that they do not take their communities
seriously.

As for addiction to the Internet, governments could encourage communities to hold

more face-to-face activities. For example, some sport games, such as playing
badminton in communities, could be supported and promoted by governments and
governments could emphasize on that lacking exercise may lead to a series of
diseases, such as obesity. Then, more citizens may be willing to go out and take part
in more community activities. In terms of tired workers, guaranteeing holidays and
other necessary rights of employees should be one of the top priorities for the
authorities. Subsequently, workers may have their private lives since they do not
spend all their time on working anymore, which allows them to join in community
activities as well.

In sum, the popularity of online communities and tiredness due to working

excessively may account for why individuals in cities may not care about their
communities. In order to tackle this issue, encouraging engagement on offline events
and guaranteeing employees leisure time should be considered by governments.
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4.

A common phenomenon of the modern society is that a growing number of people

know little about their neighbors, although they live in the same community for
many years. I think that modern lifestyles are probably responsible for this.

In large cities, people spend the daytime in the office and have dinner in the
restaurant, rarely seeing their neighbors. Even when people meet their neighbors
occasionally, they do not greet each other. As many people are busy pursuing fame
and fortune and have high stress in their daily lives, they become apathetic to other
people and unwilling to interact with their neighbors.

Another reason is that people's social life seems to be dominated by the computer
and the mobile phone. Many people live in the virtual space and ignore the
communication with others in real life. They would rather communicate with
strangers on the web than invite their neighbors to their houses for a chat.

Some experts are concerned that the lack of communication between neighbors
would lead to a sense of social isolation and measures should be taken to change this
situation. One possible approach would be for the government to produce some
public service advertisements to raise people's awareness of the importance of good
relationship with neighbors. For example, when an old person falls ill and his child is
out at work, his neighbors can offer help in time.

The community committee should also play an active role in improving the
relationship between neighbors. If more entertainment and sports activities were
organized in the community, people would have more opportunities to socialize with
their neighbors and they are more likely to create a harmonious community together.

(278 words)