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　　As is subtly portrayed in the cartoon, two toursits are taking sightseeing on a small boat while discarding their picnicing leftovers casually into a lake. Unfortuantely, the lake is already littered and teamed with flowing rubbish like plastic containers, fish-bones, banana skin, watermelon rind, bottles, tins, food wrappings, and so on. And below the drawing, there is a topic which says: "after" the travel or "me" in the travel。

　　From the portrayal, we can conclude that the painter wants to convey such a message: a good many popular places are flooded with visitors, who spoil the beauty of nature by creating and leaving behind God-knows-how-much trash. On the one hand, tourism, as a multibillion-dollar business, is booming everywhere. Some people, laboring under the belief that tourism serves as an engine of economic growth, seem to ignore its negative effects on the environment. Nevertheless, it is my view that these are not concerns that we can shrug off lightly. On the other hand, tourism has exerted great pressure on the environment we are living in: water is polluted, the ecological system is disturbed, and natural resources have been excessively used。

　　Undoubtedly, tourism could not be banned in any country as it does help to shore up the economy in places which offer few sources of income. The significant point is that the unchecked growth of the travel business may render the development of an economy unsustainable. It is high time that we enhanced people's awareness to rectify this by taking the environmental protection into consideration. (255 words)

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　　如圖所示，兩名游客正在一艘小船上觀光，同時把野餐的剩余垃圾隨意丟入湖中。不幸的是，湖中已經堆滿了漂浮的塑料盒、魚骨、香蕉皮、西瓜皮、瓶子、罐頭、食品包裝等各色垃圾。在圖畫下方，有個小標題寫明：“旅程之‘余’”。  

　　從漫畫中，我們可以得出結論：畫家想要表達下述信息：成群的游客涌入很多景點，通過生產并丟棄大量的垃圾從而破壞了大自然的美觀。一方面，旅游業作為一項數十億美元的產業，正在世界各地迅猛發展。有些人認為旅游業是經濟發展的引擎，似乎忽視了其對環境的負面影響。然而，我認為我們必須充分關注這一問題。另一方面，旅游業已經對我們生存的環境造成了巨大的壓力。水受到污染，生態平衡遭到破壞，自然資源被過度開發。

　　毫無疑問，由于在其他收入很少的地區，旅游業確實有助于發展經濟，因此任何國家都無法禁止旅游業。重要的是旅游業毫無節制的發展可能使得經濟發展不可持續。通過考慮環境保護因素，我們早就該提高人們的意識來扭轉這個現象了。