淘宝店上出现了一家特别的店铺，它卖的不是实物，而是寂寞和充实。

Dear editor,

Do you always feel lonely? My roommates always say they are lonely and in a bad mood because of loneliness. It seems that loneliness is something that can bring a bad mood to someone.

However, I happened to see a special store on taobao.com a couple of days ago. It sells 'loneliness' and 'fulfillment'. For loneliness, the price is one yuan per hour; for fulfillment, it's one yuan per day. I'm really shocked when I saw it. People should pay money to buy their own time. According to the owner of this shop, Xiao Wei, he runs this store not to make profit, but to arouse people's awareness of enjoying life. He said, people nowadays live a fast-paced life and don't have time to enjoy. In his store, people first buy time,then they should close their cell phones, spend the time without any touch to the outside world and enjoy the time all by themselve

Dear editor,

I'm writing to discuss with you a serious topic about academic plagiarism.

Lately, a postgraduate from a famous college was accused of plagiarizing her classmate's thesis. To tell you the truth, my classmates also copy other people's papers whenever we are assigned a paper task. I don't know if this really breaks the law, but I do know that this is not correct.

In my opinion, academic plagiarism is a kind of cheating. This kind of behavior shows that the person bears no responsibility to himself or herself. Parents pay money to put them through college while at last they cannot even write a creative thesis of their own. They are actually wasting their parents'money, wasting their own time, wasting educational resources. They are selfish.

But, why does this kind of cheating happen so often in China? Is it a common phenomenon in foreign academic atmosphere? Is there any legislated rules to punish people who plagiarize a

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Dear editor,

    As we all know, money is something that everyone cannot live without; money is something that everyone is pursuing. In other words, money is an important part of everyone's life.

    The idea of money is one of the great intellectual discoveries of history. However,the attitude towards money is changing. Now the phenomenon that students regard money as something that they can flaunt have existed in schools. Some are meant to flaunt their wealth to gain public admiration because they think money talks ang there is nothing that money cannot handle; some do just because of their naive thoughts.

    At the same time, there are more and more students kidnapped or killed because of their flaunting of wealth.

   In my university, there are this kind of people flaunting their wealth, and surprisingly there are another kind of people who is not wealthy at all

Dear editor,

     Today we had a discussion on class about the most important thing in college.

     Some say the most important thing in college is study. To study the profession well can mean a good job and a bright future. No matter how the world changes, knowledge is always power. In today's job market, knowledge is still the most convincing factor that employers pay more attention to. Knowledge is competence.

     On the contrary, some think making more celebrity friends, building more relations should be the most important thing to do in college. Today's society is a huge tangled network of relations. More friends, more relations mean a lot nowadays. They can mean more choices；they can mean more working chances; they can mean more respect from others...As for study, it is enough to get a graduation certification.

     In my opinion, study is more important. Stu

Dear editor,

     I am a freshman of English major. Lately I encountered some problems concerning English learning.

     When I were in Middle School, I thought I were fairly good at English. That's why I decided to choose English as my major. However, when I became an English major student, I suddenly found my English is so poor that I can't understand what my teachers say; I can't answer questions accurately in class; I perform badly in dictation. Moreover, I can't pass the tests taken every class. I feel very frustrated and I decided to spend all my time reciting words, phrases and sentence structures just as what I did in Middle School, and I also recited texts from my books. Unfortunately, it helped little.    

     I don't have any efficient ways to improve my English right now. I would feel very happy if  you could give me some advice

Dear editor:

     Hello! I am Xiaoxiao and I have been reading English Weekly since my high school. I really appreciate your effort to help us with English learning. This time, I am writing to ask for your help.

     I come from a small county and now I am studying in a university in Beijing. Recently I noticed that one of my friends, on one hand, always borrowed money from others, but on the other hand, she always came back to our apartment with lots of new clothes. I felt very curious about this and I asked her what happened.

    'I like shopping very much and I like to buy brands a lot. However, I am short of money these days, so I have to borrow to shop,' she said. I replied, 'You are living beyond your means. You need to have more self-control.''My idea of consumption is to spend money on brands no matter how expensive it is. So that I can look mu