Topic(题目)：
You have enough money to purchase either ahouse or a business. Which would you chooseto buy? Give specific reasons to explain yourchoice.
Model Essay(范文)：
If I had enough money to buy either a house or a business, I’d buy a house. A business maysucceed or fail. It’s also possible I might change my mind about what I wanted to do inbusiness. However, a home is a lifetime gift to myself.
Right now I’m in small apartment, with barely enough room for everything. All my furniture andthings I’ve accumulated since I left college barely fit. I have almost no closet space left. Thismeans my clothes are always wrinkled because they’re crushed together. I don’t have any placeto put my cleaning supplies, nor room for more than one set of sheets and towels. A new housewould mean a lot more room for all these things.
I love having plants around. It’s very healthy for the air inside and it’s cheerful to have livingthings growing in a room. I’d like to have a garden instead. That way I could grow a lot ofdifferent kinds of plants and flowers, and I could have a vegetable garden in the summer.
Besides having a garden, I’d like to have a backyard with lots of trees and a small fountain inthe corner. I love watching birds and listening to them sing. On the windowsill of my apartment, I put out bird seed every morning. In the hot weather, I put out a shallow tin plate with waterin it for birds. The trees and the fountain in my backyard would gibe me pleasure, but they’dreally be for the birds. The trees would give them a place to nest, and the fountain would be asource of fresh water when it’s hot.
Can you picture my dream house? A business would only give me money. A house would giveme someplace special to be myself.
重点单词 全部解释
cheerful['tʃiəfəl]adj. 高兴的，快乐的
purchase['pə:tʃəs]vt. 买，购买 n. 购买，购买的物品
fountain['fauntin]n. 喷泉，源泉，储水容器，泉水 v. 使像喷
tin[tin]n. 罐头，锡，听头 adj. 锡制的
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
shallow['ʃæləu]adj. 浅的，薄的 n. 浅滩，浅处
source[sɔ:s]n. 发源地，来源，原始资料
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