changes in people’s life 英文作文80字

changes in people’s life 英文作文80字
根据图示用英语写一篇Changes in People's Life的短文,介绍过去和现在人们的生活变化.
要求：1.词数在80个左右.
2.把图中所示内容表示完整,条理清晰,意思连贯.
3.开头部分已给出,不计入总词数.
参考词汇：apartment公寓
四副图找不出来 我用文字表达出来
过去
1 写信联系
2 用收音机
3 有自行车
4 住房简陋
现在：
1 手机 电话 电脑
2看 电视机
3 开小轿车
4 住房宽敞
不要偏得太远 最好用 used to句型
谢过!
下面是开头：
Great changes have taken place in people's life in the past 20 years.
In the past people kept in touch with relatives or friends mainly by sending________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Here is an example from "the new york times" about rustic life. Hope it helpful.
Rustic Life Of Amish Is Changing But Slowly
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: July 6, 1997
The horse carriages still ply the hilly roads of Lancaster County, a black top indicating a Mennonite driver and a gray top an Amish one.
But they are not traveling to and from farms so much anymore, as they have through decades in a style of life resistant to the march of technology and urban confusion. These days, the drivers are just as likely to be headed for a bakery, a clothing store, a handicraft shop or even a cement factory -- sure testimony that a revered and resolute way of life is changing ever so slowly.
''And it continues to happen,'' said Moses B. Smucker, 46, an Amish man whose life as owner of Smucker's Harness Shop Inc. seems to symbolize the evolution. ''It's pretty simple. There is not enough land needed to farm. People are making other choices.
''I don't consider it a negative. Some do. But I don't.''
Amish and Mennonite families make up 36,000 of the 435,000 people in Lancaster County. For generations, the traditional among them have clung to the land for their values and livelihoods, resisting the temptations and conveniences of the outside world. Theirs has always been a rustic life of hard work, plain clothes, horse-drawn plows and no electricity.
But their style of life has made them a curiosity to outsiders, and the curiosity has grown into a tourist industry, attracting up to five million visitors a year. Lancaster County towns like Intercourse and Bird in Hand, once dots on the map where carriage drivers met to talk quietly, are now vacation destinations.
Main streets are flecked with bed-and-breakfasts and boutiques that sell Amish and Mennonite wares. Many stores are open on Sundays, a practice once unheard of here.
New industry has also found the area, drawn by a culture, fostered by the Amish and Mennonites, of hard work and dependability. As one of the faster-growing regions in Pennsylvania, with a population surge of nearly 6 percent from 1990 to 1995, Lancaster County is now home to 10,000 businesses, including giants like the Kellogg Company, Tyson Foods Inc. and the R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, which have all built factories.
The county unemployment rate, 2.6 percent, is well below the national average of 5 percent, and residential subdivisions are flourishing.
But the combination of tourism and commercial success is fundamentally changing the sociological fabric of the Amish and Mennonite communities, which share the same Christian beliefs but differ in how they practice them. The Amish are generally more conservative.
New residents have driven up property values, and Amish and Mennonite families, which tend to be large, often with six or more children, are struggling to find enough farmland for all to make a living.
Many offspring stay, working family acreage for corn, tobacco, grains and other crops, and many others are leaving to find cheaper land elsewhere. But a growing percentage of Amish and Mennonites are abandoning the farms to pursue their own entrepreneurial instincts or jobs with new businesses that their communities spurred.
Mr. Smucker grew up on his family's 40-acre farm just north of here, in Churchtown. His father began making harnesses for horses as a side business in 1962. But eight years later, he was killed when a truck in which he was a passenger was in an accident, and the farm was sold.
Like thousands of young Amish, Moses Smucker worked the fields, but once the farm passed out of the immediate family, his interest waned. ''I wanted to be in business,'' he said, so he concentrated on harness making.
Today, Smucker's Harness Shop on Route 23, amid dozens of small farms, stands as thriving evidence to his fortitude and the increasing diversity of Amish and Mennonite people. Generating millions of dollars a year in revenue, the shop has become a world-renowned source of hand-crafted carriages, bridles and other horse-related products.
''Our whole industry buys here,'' said Paul McDade of Border Carriages in New York City, a company that operates horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. He and two friends had just bought new bridles.