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How People Spent Their HolidaysAs can be seen from the table, great changes took place in the ways that people spent their holidays over the period from the year 1990 to 1999。 The proportion of traveling abroad and camping was increasing steadily, from 12% to 24% and from 10% to 36% separately, while that of staying at home and going to the seaside was decreasing year by year, from 38% to 31% and from 40% to 9% separately。 Why were there changes? I think people can nowadays afford traveling。Also, people prefer to pursue a high-quality and colorful life。 So we can see that people's living standard has been rising greatly。 How to Use the Dictionary?When you are reading something in English, you may often come across a new word。 What's the best way to know it?You may look it up in an English-Chinese Dictionary。 It will tell you a lot about the word, the pronunciation, the part of speech, the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word。 But how can you find it in the dictionai'y both quickly and correctly7 First, all the English words are arranged in the'alphabetical order。 In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the letter A, then B, C, D, E,。。。 That means, if there are two,words desert and pull, desert will be certainly before pull。 Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may lo0k at the second letter。 Then the third, the fourth, 。。。 For example,pardon is before plough, judge before just,etc。 Do you understand how to look up a word in dictionary?The dictionary will be your: good friend。 I hope you'll use it as often as possible in your English learning。