Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their picture on a postage stamp. Vanity stamps that feature personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer’s photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $ 8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp features a different scene from a traditional ukiyo-e along with the photo. The stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help promote interest in letter-writing in the Internet age. "Certainly e-mail is a useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way," said an official in the Posts Ministry. "We want to show young people that letters can be fun too. " While similar stamp sheets debuted in Australia in 1999 and are
A. $8.80
B. $0.88
C. $10
D. $5
Many people who live in cities say that they dislike city life. They saw the city that they live in is noisy, dirty and crowded. They are tired of the traffic, the pollution in the air and the rubbish in the streets.
But not many people living in cities are happy when they have to stay in the country for two or three weeks. They enjoy the quiet, the clean air and the beautiful healthy surroundings, but they miss the stores and restaurants, the movie theater, the crowds,: and the excitement of the city. People who live in the country on the other hand enjoy visiting the city for a day or an evening to do some shopping or go to the theater or a concert. But they often find the city a rather frightening place and they are usually happy to get back to their quiet, unexciting lives in the country.
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