Is Money Everything?

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At present some people in our country think that money is everything. They say that you can do everything if you have money. You can live in a beautiful house, keep a luxurious (豪華的) car and have all sorts of delicious (可口的) food.
    I don't think so. Indeed, money can buy a lot of things we need. But there are many, many wonderful things in the world [that] (1) cannot be bought with money.
    For example, knowledge cannot be bought with money. One cannot be rich in knowledge unless he studies hard. Friendship cannot be bought, either. There's a famous saying “A friend in need is a friend indeed”。 A story is told about a man. When he was rich , many people wanted to be his friends . When he became poor, all of his friends left him . [, whom many people wanted to make friends with when he was rich, but all of them left him when he became poor. ] (2 ) So you see, money cannot buy real friendship.
    Money can buy a gold watch, but who can buy even a second of time with money? One cannot turn the wheel of time backwards. Time must be seized. Who keeps a more active life, who gets more time . [ He who keeps a more active life gets more time. ] (3)
    There are still many other things [that] (4)cannot be boughtwith money: health, life, happiness,love and so on.Just think,if a person hasn't these things at all,is his money still useful?
    Now, do you still(5) think money is everything?
    上海市虹口中學(xué) 豐康妮
    評(píng) 語
    本文對(duì)“金錢萬能”的思想進(jìn)行了有力的反駁,舉例論理相結(jié)合,具有一定的說服力。同時(shí)語言運(yùn)用簡(jiǎn)潔明快,文中某些語言上的不足之處點(diǎn)評(píng)修改如下:
    (1)、(4)句子謂語是 There are,“cannot be bought…”是“There be”句型主語 many wonderful/other things 的定語從句的謂語,故要加上關(guān)系代詞 that.
    (2)這里把后面句子改為修飾前面句子 A story is told about a man中a man的定語從句,否則,a man會(huì)被誤解為“任何一個(gè)人”。
    (3)原句為中國式英語:“誰……,誰就……”,故改之。
    (5)still用得太主觀,好像you已經(jīng)有這樣的看法了,因此刪去為好。