健康更重要
【内容提示】
财富和健康哪一个更重要？可能很多人会选择前者。你选择什么？也许你以前和多数人的想法一样。但是，有一件事触动了你。自那以后你的看法就变了，你认为财富和健康二者中，后者比前者更重要。请你把你的思想转化过程写成一篇英语短文。
【作文示范】
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.
【词语解释】
①track suit（田径）运动服
②energatic [?en+'dNetik] adj．精力旺盛的
③comfort ['k)mf+t] v．安慰
【写法指要】
作者原先认为财富比健康重要。父亲带他去医院看望身患癌症的李叔叔时，他看到病人和生病前判若两人，此时，他触景生情，感到人要没有了生命一切都会化为乌有。于是，他完全改变了原先的看法，认识到：健康最为重要。