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 newhouse would 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.

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