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What is the most important animal in your country? Why is the animal important? Use reasons and specific details to explain your answer.
In the United States, there are many important animals. They help us in a wide range of ways, from food production to scientific research. An animal that is not only helpful to us but close to us emotionally is the dog. That is why I feel that dogs are the most important animals in my country.
Dogs provide a very important chance for people to learn and maintain social skills. Children who have dogs are able to learn responsibility while caring for them. Dogs also help older people. The elderly often feel lonely as they get older and have fewer living friends and relatives, and are able to maintain a positive outlook and to feel needed when they own and care for a dog that needs them.
In addition to social benefits, dogs also provide some very important working assistance. Seeing-eye dogs help many physically disabled and blind people to live fulfilling and more mobile lives. Dogs that act as shepherds on farms are also very helpful. Lost animals can have negative financial impact for farmers, which can mean going out of business. Police dogs can find illegal drugs, catch criminals, and protect their handlers. Dogs’ intelligence and desire to please people made them ideal for all kinds of work.
Finally, dogs can save lives. Dogs have been known to find lost children. In extremely cold conditions, they have provided them with life-saving warmth. Dogs have alerted people to fires and other dangers. We should not neglect to discuss guard dogs, which save many owners’ lives and property each year by scaring off potential burglars.
Again, there are many useful animals in the United States. In terms of the numerous ways in which they can be helpful, however, I believe dogs are the most significant and important.
满分要素剖析
一、 语言表达
本文有很多描述性的词汇非常值得借鉴，因为集中讨论狗对于人们生活工作的重要性，因此列举了不同种类的工作犬，比如seeing-eye dog导盲犬，Dogs that act as shepherds牧羊犬等等一些词汇，从中可以学到不同的表达和描述方式。
1、The elderly often feel lonely as they get older and have fewer living friends and relatives, and are able to maintain a positive outlook and to feel needed when they own and care for a dog that needs them. The elderly指代老年人，通常the+副词的结构指代某一类人，比如the disabled代表残疾人。Maintain a positive outlook保持积极的人生观，outlook表示世界观，人生观，即对生活的看法(general attitude towards life)，还有对未来的展望，前景的意思。Care for表示关怀，照顾。
2、Seeing-eye dogs help many physically disabled and blind people to live fulfilling and more mobile lives. 导盲犬seeing-eye dog，fulfilling表示令人满足的，是fulfill实现，的形容词形式，还有名词fulfillment，表示实现，满足。live a…life是一个固定搭配，表示过着…的生活，中间添加形容词，而其中的mobile表示行动自如的，走动方便的，对应physically disabled people，说明他们在导盲犬的帮助下过着行动自如的生活。
3、Dogs’ intelligence and desire to please people made them ideal for all kinds of work. Please在这里是做动词使用，表示取悦，让…愉悦的意思。Ideal理想的，最佳的。
二、 逻辑结构
文章从工作和生活两个角度出发，分三个分论点讨论了狗，作为人类的朋友，是最重要的。第一个分论点说明在生活上，狗能帮助残疾人，给老年人带去陪伴和温暖，第二个分论点说明狗还扮演了很多社会角色，比如导盲犬，警犬，牧羊犬等，协助人们进行各项工作，最后一项是狗对于人类生命的拯救与保护，他们经常在搜救上做出贡献，拯救濒临危险的生命。最后让步总结，尽管在美国有很多有用的，值得被保护的动物，但是狗还是被作者选为最为重要的那个。
全文是总分总的结构，中间分论点也是以总分的形式展开讨论，层次明显清晰。
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