题目：
19 Governments should focus in solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
解析：
此题属于长远问题及眼前问题分析类。作者认为政府应该侧重于眼前急迫的问题，而不是去解决可预见的长期问题。此类问题可以结合实例进行举例分析。例如长远问题可以从为后代造福角度。短期问题例如空气及环境污染等，不加以治理可能会变为更严重的长期问题。换个角度来说短期和长期并不是独立的两个部分，政府也可以协调好两者之间的关系
雪晶老师范文：
Taking a hardheaded commercial decision is the essential premise for a company to adopt and survive in the fast paced and intensively competed society. But how to make an efficient and a rational decision? Which factors, sustainable development or current profit, do the decision makers care about more? It seems to have no clear and right answers for these critical questions. It might be much wiser for the makers to depend on the surrounding circumstance to make a strategic conclusion. Balance the ideas of current and future benefits might be a good choice for the decision makers.
Considering the future condition is crucial for the sustainable development. Planting trees, we will not harvest immediately but will definitely contribute to future generations. People brought considerable efforts and passion to the process exploring the air and space and doing experience in the space station with unsure about the results. But with endless efforts, it will become a significant breakthrough and the benefit for future generations will be countless. We have limited resources. With endless extraction, how much will be left for our children? Future consideration is a serious problem. We need to take actions now; even the harvest will be few years later or even longer. If not, how would our children survive with scarce resources?
But some social problems need to be solved immediately in case it will turn to a profound emergency, such as environment issue. If we do not lay more stress on this problem-just caring about the economy development and ignore the environment construction, the fresh air and beautiful scenery will never come back. Before the current problems getting worse and worse, we need to take actions from now on. Also, the higher unemployment rate is another serious risk. Not solving the higher unemployment rate immediately, it will widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Creating more job opportunities, offering skill training for workers, and increasing the government spending…those actions must be carried out with not hesitate to solve the current social issues.
Sometimes the economy construction will be on the base of harming the environment. Such as one more acre of industry land will be one acre less farming land. But we cannot say it is impossible to harmony the development of economy and environment. If improving the technology that reduces the wasteful pollutions, the condition will be much better. Somali fishery created the economy prosperity. But over fishing destroy the environment. It is both a current problem that avoided a booming fishing area from disappearing, but also a long-term issue that we need to care about our future generations and leave resources for them.
Long term and short term decisions are not independent issues. We usually measure short-term goals in relation to long-term goals. Thus it is essential to balance the relationship between these two. Current development and future sustainable are equally important to the society and to the decision makers. If asking for a durable profit, decision makers should take both- future and current conditions- into consideration.