Here are four clothing stores.

Notes: £ means the cheapest; £ £ £ £ means the most expensive;

★ means friendly; ★★★★ means the friendliest

    Bill and Cathy wanted to go on a holiday. They chose a place called Maldives (马尔代夫). And they decided to 1there for two weeks in spring, because they heard that the weather there would be perfect at that time. They worked very hard for several2. Finally, they made enough money for their dream3. But their trip was more like a nightmare (噩梦)!

    The problem4when the flight was put off because of bad weather. They couldn't leave5night. They finally got on the plane twelve hours later! But they6fly to Maldives because there was a storm. They had to fly to the capital city7. There they stayed in a small hotel8the airport.

    The hotel was next to the sea, but the sea was9dirty that they couldn't swim in it. And the hotel swimming pool was full of leaves! The food was awful10. For breakfast there was11bread and milk! The worst part was when the storm came, they felt really12. Because of the bad weather, they had to stay for13night in the small hotel. And they had14to do. It was so boring. Finally, they15in Maldives three days later. And someone told them the weather there had been wonderful all the time!

    XBOX 360 Kinetic, RoboSapien, WiiParty, these are just a few of the modern toys sold in recent years. But some of the most popular toys are actually quite old.

Games have been around for thousands of years. In 4000 B. C, Babylonians played a board game that was similar to chess. Yo-yos made of stone were first used in ancient Greece around 1000 B C. And kites appeared in China around the same time.

    Another famous game is Scrabble. It was invented by an architect in the 1930s, but it didn't get popular until 1953 And since then, more than 100 million sets have been sold worldwide.

    As you can imagine, toys and games are a multi-billion-dollar industry. Mr. Potato Head, the first toy advertised on TV, grossed more than $4 million in its first year. Play-Doh made its inventor Joseph McVicker a millionaire by his 27th birthday, while Mattel sells 1. 5 million Barbie dolls each week (that's two dolls each second!).

    Some toys go out of fashion, but then become popular again, such as Rubik's Cube. Research says parents are increasingly choosing to buy toys they remember from their own childhood.

    These days, toys are not just for fun. RoboSapien is a remote-controlled robot that was launched in 2004. He can walk, turn around and do other poses. RoboSapien was designed by Mark Tilden, who once created robots for NASA space missions. He expected the toy to be used mostly by and scientists, but almost 2 million RoboSapiens have been sold worldwide since its launch as a toy?

    Fancy a game anyone?

    When I just moved to Los Angeles（洛杉矶）, I didn't have a car.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, but I wanted to prove（证明）them wrong.

    I asked my neighbor, Mrs. White, to take me to the bus station in the center of the city, so I could try taking the bus home.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}. When I got there, I went inside and got a bus timetable（时刻表）. I looked at the map and worked out that I needed to take three buses to get home.

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I love my family very much.