Dear Li Ming, How are you these days? Are you busy preparing for the tests? So what do you do to relax yourself? The winter vacation is coming and I know you're going to Beijing for a trip with your family. What are you going to do there? Look forward to your reply. Yours, Maria |
参考词汇: do sports, watch games, hang out with friends, eat the local food,
go to places of interest.
注意:文中不得出现个人的真实信息。
Dear Maria,
Yours,
Li Ming
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Do you want to buy a new pair of sunglasses? The latest CD? Or something you're your dinner this evening? Nowadays, you can shop by telephone, by post or through your home computer. But for many people, the most exciting way to shop is also the most traditional-at a street market. You can find markets anywhere in the world. People in different places have their own favorites. Here are some of them:
Every weekend, thousands of young people from all over London travel to Camden Market in an attractive area in the north of the city—it's the place to go for street fashion, jewellery, CDs and tapes.. but many people just go for the lively atmosphere (氛围)!
There are many "floating markets" in Asia. Perhaps the most famous is in Thailand, at a place called Damnoen Saduak, 100 km from the capital city, Bangkok. From six in the morning to midday, people sell fresh fruit and vegetables from their boats every day.
Many Belgians (比利时人) say that the Grand Place in the center of the capital city, Brussels, is the most beautiful square in the world. It is the home of a colorful flower market- open every day except Monday. On Monday, instead of flowers, there's a wonderful bird market!
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey, is more than 500 years old and it has more than 4,000 shops under one roof (屋檐)!You can buy almost anything. It's open all day every day!
And one of the world's most unusual markets is in Mexico City, at the Sonora Market. As well as toys and birds, you can buy natural medicines which (they say) can help with any health problem!
Last weekend, somebody bought a lottery ticket (彩票). He (choose) all the right numbers and won $200,000. What a lucky man! Or (probable) not.
In the 1970s at the University of Illinois, some (science) studied people who won lotteries. The results (be) interesting. The winners only felt happy for a short time. soon after that, their life was just like the old days and they didn't feel (happy) than before. A similar study by the University of California in 2008 gave same results. They looked at lottery winners six months after their win and were surprised (find) their feelings back to normal. And if the winner is not lucky enough, a big lottery win would bring problems. Alex Toth, example, won $13 million in 1990. He (stop) working, spent the money quickly and had terrible fights with his family and friends.