英语素材

Wealth has been always longed for by some people. In today's material world, making money or becoming wealthy symbolizes a person's success and capability. Many people not only make every effort, but also pay any price to attain greater wealth, and it seems that they will be able to get great satisfaction and happiness. However, there's an old proverb, "Money can cure hunger, but it can't get happiness" which simply means wealth can buy us many material things but cannot make us happy and free from sadness or worries. Truly, wealth can buy a lot of material things, and give us a moment of happiness. But wealth does never go hand in hand with happiness. Yet quite a few people put obtaining wealth in the first place, while ignoring other very important things, such as health and family.

In my opinion, people cannot do anything without money, but money is not everything. What money will bring you depends on your personal belief and goal in life. If you are kind enough to help others, especially the poor, money is a good thing to you. With it, you can do much more for the benefit of people and your country, and it will be your own happiness.

分析原因必背高分素材：

1. 意识的缺乏

The absence of the awareness/sense of independence has reinforced the trend.

The general public lacks the basic knowledge regarding the significance/danger of smoking.

Lacking knowledge regarding the significance/danger of over-fishing, some companies/authorities/individuals are engaged in over-fishing, posing a severe threat to the ecology/ leading to the unbalance of ecology.

2. 法律的执行不够严厉

Relevant laws and regulations may not have been strictly enforced to warn people not to do sth. (如：to drive after drinking)

Although specific laws and regulations have been put into place to do sth（to ban over-fishing）, there is a lack of implementing measures to help achieve that goal 3. 重视经济利益而忽视其他

Quite a few businessmen put the economic interests in the first place at the expense of others’ interests.

In order to boost economic development, many countries exploit natural resources excessively, which gives rise to a dreadful consequence. （为了促进经济发展，***做了***，导致严重后果）

Driven by short-term profits, some lawless companies are engaged in over-fishing, thus putting our ecology in grave danger./leading to…/posing a threat to…

4. 道德沦丧：

The economic prosperity in China sadly witnesses a continuing degeneration of the morality / integrity（诚信）, which has taken an indispensable position in traditional Chinese values for thousands of years.

5. 压力增大：

Accompanied by the quickening pace of life, competition goes increasingly fierce in all walks of life, imposing tremendous pressure on all individual.

6. 供需：