Ten years {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (以前), I lived with my parents in a town in the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (美国). There wasn't a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (客厅)in my house. There were only two {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (卧室).I didn't need to get up early because my {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (初级的)school was not far away. It was in the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (东面的)of the town. I often walked to school. There was a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (电影院)between my home and my school. It was very {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (便宜的)for students. After school, I often {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (观看)a film with friends. But my parents were {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (严厉的), so I often got home before eight. The life was difficult but I never felt bored with it.

Not only could the cultures, histories or customs in different countries be different, but the s{#blank#}1{#/blank#} habits are different. Let's see the shopping in America here. If you arrive in America only for a short time, I believe you need to buy some clothes soon. There is a rule of dressing in the States: Change your clothes every day. F{#blank#}2{#/blank#} example, in an American college, neither teachers n{#blank#}3{#/blank#} students are often seen in the same clothes for two days on end. So you may find i{#blank#}4{#/blank#} necessary to buy more clothes than you have here- in China. W{#blank#}5{#/blank#} you are shopping in America, you will find that prices change a lot from store to store, and that they change a lot from time to time. After you stay in America for some time, you will also find t{#blank#}6{#/blank#} Americans are not so well off. They often go shopping at "sales". They also buy some used, second-hand things, such as clothing, the bed, the sofa, or the TV一in order to s{#blank#}7{#/blank#} money. But in America it is quite different: most of the second-hand things are rather good. In fact, the price in the United States is always very l{#blank#}8{#/blank#}. Advertisements for the "white sale" are often seen in January, as well as in May and June or July. Once or t{#blank#}9{#/blank#} every season there will be "garage sales" in the community. There, you can get almost a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, from a boat to a pair of shoes, at lower prices.