Answer the question
according to the text “My Manhattan”.
My Manhattan
Today, the
island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place
where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on
the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is
loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation,
we will be in a lot of trouble!
There are a lot of
traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a
bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more,
the air pollution will get better.
The biggest green space
in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some
land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings.
Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you
go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the
trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is
a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.
A few years back, New
York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact.
Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future,
we will need to switch to electric cars.
Manhattan is my home,
and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a
beautiful place in the future.
