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。你選擇什麼？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，你認為財富和健康二者中，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
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（田徑）運動服
②energatic [?en+＇dNetik] adj．精力旺盛的
③comfort [＇k)mf+t] v．安慰
【寫法指要】
作者原先認為財富比健康重要。父親帶他去醫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為烏有。於是，他完全改變了原先的看法，認識到：健康最為重要。