Page 195 - 高职英语口语大赛辅导及教学创新

第四章 高职英语口语技能大赛题型概述

Topic 7:money can bring us happiness
话题七：金钱能买来幸福吗？
正方：money can bring us happiness

Today we are debating whether money can bring happiness， so first of all we
have to know that money is ,neither good nor evil， neither beautiful nor ugly. We
believe that money can bring us happiness for the following reasons：
What we can’t deny is that everyone’s life needs a certain material foundation
and the construction of all material foundations requires money. The happiness in life

that cannot even be guaranteed by material foundations can only be short-lived. Money
can bring you more material than others. This is a real thing. It is something that really
exists and can bring you happiness.

Sometimes happiness is simple and pure， just like girls have a new dress.
Money can bring greater freedom and eliminate your material worries. With money，
you don’t have to do things you don’t like in order to make a living， you can devote
yourself to what you love. With money， the house goal of the young generation will
no longer be a mountain that is too heavy for you to breathe. Your relatives， friends

and yourself will no longer worry about lack of money for treatment if they are sick.
The more choices you have， the more possibilities for life.
反方：money can not bring us happiness

Can money buy happiness beyond substance such as pure love， brilliant
friendship and so on?
Honorable judgers， worthy opponents， ladies and gentlemen， good morning!
ln this material world， it is true that most people hold the firm belief that money is not
everything but without money，everything is nothing and regard money as a source

of happiness. However. there is also an old saying that money is the root of all evil，
which indicates that money can’t buy happiness but unhappiness brought from evil.
After reading numerous analyses of experiments on people’s happiness our team negate

money’s ability of buying happiness. Before we enter the topic， let’s think about a
question： What is happiness? According to Marx， who founded communism and
brought happiness to the world， happiness is defined as a state where people feel the

187