健康更重要

「內容提示」

　　財富和健康哪一個更重要？可能很多人會選擇前者。你選擇什麽？也許你以前和多數人的想法一樣。但是，有一件事觸動了你。自那以後你的看法就變了，你認爲財富和健康二者中，後者比前者更重要。請你把你的思想轉化過程寫成一篇英語短文。

　　「作文示範」

　　Health Is More Important

　　陳豔豔

　　Wealth or health？ Many would choose the former over the latter. In the past， I too would have chosen wealth， but after last winter vacation， I completely changed my view.

　　“Uncle Li is suffering from cancer. Let's go to see him tomorrow.” When my father told me the bad news， I could hardly believe my eats. Uncle Li has been a good friend to my father for years and had always been kind to me. In the morning， I often saw him wearing his track suit① and doing exercises. He looked so healthy and energetic②。

　　I continue to hope that some mistake had been made in his physical examination until I saw him lying in the hospital bed with my own eyes. He was very different from the energetic man I remembered doing his exercises.

　　We were aware that he must be bearing great pain， so we tried to comfort③ him， encouraging him to pull through. He just nodded with tears shining in his eyes. I turned back for fear that I couldn't keep back my tears.

　　On the way home， I was deep in thought. I asked myself： If money was everything， could it buy health？ Of course not. Health is the most important of all.

　　「詞語解釋」

　　①track suit（田逕）運動服

　　②energatic [？en 'dNetik] adj.精力旺盛的

　　③comfort ['k）mf t] v.安慰

　　「寫法指要」

　　作者原先認爲財富比健康重要。父親帶他去毉院看望身患癌症的李叔叔時，他看到病人和生病前判若兩人，此時，他觸景生情，感到人要沒有了生命一切都會化爲烏有。於是，他完全改變了原先的看法，認識到：健康最爲重要。