Topic(题目)：
Plants can provide food, shelter, clothing ,ormedicine. What is one kind of plant that isimportant to you or the people in your country? Use specific reasons and details to support yourchoice.
Model Essay(范文)：
The coconut tree is a very important plant in my country. Coconut tree plantations areimportant sources of revenue ,food and shelter.
Our country earns a lot of money from the export of coconut tree products like copra, coconuts, coconuts oil , and coconut milk . This has been the main sources of our foreign exchange forover a century . In fact, many of the coconut plantations were planted by various colonial powerand now, since independence, are run by our own citizens .
We not only export the food products of the coconut tree ,we eat them ourselves too. The cocois the basis of much of our national cuisine, we are famous for our curries made rich by coconutmilk .We also use the oil to fry our foods as well as to add shine to our skin and hair.
The fronds of the coconut tree are also used to cover the walls and roofs of temporaryshelters. The breezes pass through the fronds and cool the interior ,but the heavy rains, whichfall daily , do not enter.
The coconut tree is a very versatile and useful plant .It is a tree that has served our countrywell.
重点单词 全部解释
temporary['tempərəri]adj. 暂时的，临时的
n. 临时工
independence[.indi'pendəns]n. 独立，自主，自立
versatile['və:sətail]adj. 多才多艺的，多方面的，通用的
exchange[iks'tʃeindʒ]n. 交换，兑换，交易所
v. 交换，兑换，交
shelter['ʃeltə]n. 庇护所，避难所，庇护
v. 庇护，保护，
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
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