essay - TOEFL5

Question:
A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position.

Answer:
As easily imagined, inviting a factory brings some negative byproducts to the region. First, production activity possibly undermines the nature of the region. Smog from the chimneys or filthy water from the drain ditches may damage the forests or rivers of the region. And we can easily imagine that many trucks which convey materials to the factory overload the traffic of the town resulting in traffic congestion.

However, inviting a factory to the town has a lot of benefits that the residents can enjoy. First, we can pick out financial benefits. The factory might bring a huge amount of taxes to the local government. The factory might also bring jobs to the town, resulting in the huge wage that the workers can take at the factory.

Second, the factory can sustain long-standing prosperity in the community. If the factory goes well, people will gather around the factory as workers, their families, and business people who sell products to them them. They will live around the factory, get married, and make children. The town will achieve prosperity according to the lives.

In summary, the factory itself has disadvantages, like pollution or heavy traffic. However, whereas the people can curb the disadvantages by demanding emission control to the factory or expanding the traffic capacity, inviting a factory can bring invaluable merits to the community, like financial benefits and long term prosperity. So, I support the idea of bring a factory to the community for sure.