Chinese welfare lottery
Chinese lottery is surely known by people with possessing nearly ten million lucky men and several trillion yuan of sales in recent years. Its types, yet, awfully confuse the Chinese from time to time. Generally speaking, Chinese lottery consists of welfare lottery and sports lottery. Furthermore, welfare lottery is of three major types: Blood Brothers（双色球）, Scratch Card （刮刮乐）and 3D. Blood Brother is a diverting lottery. Its number includes six red balls and one blue ball. People who buy it select them from 33 red and 16 blue balls either by themselves or draw support from machines. As various balls combination stands for corresponding amounts of money, people who guess all the six red balls and one blue ball correctly annex the first prize in line with its six awards, five red balls or five red and one blue balls for the second prize, count analogically. Blood Brothers, on one hand, feature sundry manipulation and awards classification, leading to almost exclusive experienced customers. On the other hand, its creating successive “five million yuan awards legends” helpfully make Blood Brother earn countless “investments” from green horns in spite of its complexity.
Blood brothers complicated, senior citizens easily lean to Scratch Card, a simply manipulative lottery. Hardly was the price spot scraped open, people had known the result immediately. Its target, helping the elderly, the disabled, the orphaned and the poor, obtain supports from all circles. Additionally, having perfectly condensed rich culture that the masses love to hear or see and game elements, it becomes china’s instant lottery pioneer finally. So, scratch card, with high chances for awards—50% awards rate is increasingly catching on.
That 3D is operated in a simpler way than Blood brothers and own more awards sum than Scratch Card attracts the largest crowd among all the three “lottery contestants”. People, crazed about 3d, necessarily pick up three numbers (repeatable) from zero to nine then sequence them. If they choose the right numbers and sequence, 1000 yuan (three different figures) or 320 yuan (two same figures) will be brought into the fold. Even with the three right figures but wrong sequence, 180 yuan is available to people.
To sum up, different types of Chinese welfare merge into one aim—helping needy people. Whichever you choose, you can contribute your loving heart to others.
Peer reading: this essay tells us something about Chinese welfare lottery. The structure is clear and the words are simple. If some points can be said more clearly, it will be better.
第二篇：The Lottery(1)
The Lottery Questions The Lottery-Questions
1) What happens at the end of the story?
2) Give me at least 2 clues that suggest how the townspeople
feel about the lottery.
3) What is meant by the phrase “Lottery in June, corn be heavy
soon?” 4) What is the point of view in this story?
5) What are the central themes in this story?
6) Give me an example of foreshadowing in the story.
7) What does the black box symbolize?
The black box symbolized of foolish old tradition and superstition. The villager used it every year for the lottery. It also
8) What is the significance of the following characters?
a. Old Man Warner
b. Mr. Summer
A) B)