托福满分范文：幸福是否能用金钱购买

Most university freshmen will have to go through a period of difficult time during their first days in college, because they are not fully prepared for the new life in the new environment. Therefore, people suggest that it would be better for them to do some work, such as part-time job, before attending college, which, in my opinion, is actually a perfect idea（表明立场）, for it will definitely help the students better prepared for their university life.
First, part-time job is a good opportunity for students to obtain precious experience. For one thing, when they are working, they will have to get along with more people in a more complicated environment. Before they graduate from high school, they have always been living a relatively simple world with only parents, classmates and teachers; they don’t need to know how to understand the art of interpersonal relationship. However, a job requires more sophisticated ability of communication, which is also needed in the university, a place to some extent nearly the same complicated as society.（能在工作中学到处理人际关e799bee5baa6e997aee7ad94e4b893e5b19e365系的技巧）For another, some work experience before college makes students comprehend things that they can do and a lot more that they cannot; therefore, their future study could be guided with a clearer target. And when they graduate from the university with more confidence to hunt jobs four years later, they will be grateful for the time they spend doing the preparation in advance.（对日后找工作有帮助）

Does money buy happiness? No! Ah, but would a little more money make us a little happier? Many of us smirk and nod. There is, we believe, some connection between fiscal fitness and feeling fantastic. Most of us would say that, yes, we would like to be rich. Three in four American collegians now consider it “very important”e799bee5baa6e4b893e5b19e331 or “essential” that they become “very well off financially”. Money matters.
Well, are rich people happier? Researchers have found that in poor countries, being relatively well off does make for greater well-being. We need food, rest, shelter and social contact. But a surprising fact of life is that in countries where nearly everyone can afford life’s necessities, increasing affluence matters surprisingly little. The correlation between income and happiness is “surprisingly weak”. Once comfortable, more money provides diminishing returns. The second piece of pie, or the second $100,000, never tastes as good as the first. Even lottery winners and the Forbes’ 100 wealthiest Americans have expressed only slightly greater happiness than the average American. Making it big brings temporary joy. But in the long run, wealth is like health: its utter absence can breed misery, but having it doesn’t guarantee happiness.