新托福综合写作：2012年10月19日北美真题再现
Task 1：Writing Based on Reading and Listening
Directions: You should allow 3 minutes to read the passage. Then listen to the lecture. Then allow 20 minutes to plan and write your response.

Passage：
Essential Air Service (EAS) is a U.S. government grant program. Its aim is to ensure that small communities once served by commercial airlines do not lose air services. The EAS now plans to build airports in remote rural communities that are more than 110 km away from a commercial airport. Several benefits are stated in support of the program.
First, the service is aimed at farmers, fishermen, small miners, loggers and others working in remote areas. Without air connections, some of these towns have no convenient connection with the outside world. The air subsidy program attempts to make it possible for people living in rural areas to enjoy the same access to air travel as people in cities.

Second, the service can also boost the local economy. Communities once distant from population and transport centers now become local tourist destinations. Skagway, Alaska, for example, is a day’s sail from the state capital of Juneau. But, by a small plane, it is only a half-hour trip. With the advent of a small local passenger service, the little burg turned from a ghost town in the early 1980’s to a tourist destination receiving nearly a million visitors a year by the year 2000. The vast majority were cruise ship tourists brought from Juneau by air.

Finally, the program provides a modest economic stimulant as it encourages the purchase of small aircraft and the development of local airports. Also, the sales of fuel and aircraft maintenance provide an extra shove to seasonal and sluggish local economies.

Listen
Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.
 

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