Write about the following topic: A person's worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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The charts show the attendance at entertainment
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and illustrate the entry prices to those
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in the year 2009. Overall, the attendance for the most popular event was the most popular which is even higher than the sum of the other two
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, the price for entry is not completely consistent with it in that year. For the attendance at leisure
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, cinemas got the highest participation with more than 1000 thousand admissions, which is two and a half more than the theme parks that comes
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with approximately 400 thousand, and around 5 times of sports event where the admissions
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less than 200 thousand. For the price of admission, most of the
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set inversely with the popularity of the
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for cinema is around 15 for each person and 55 for a four-person family ticket; and the
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park is 70 per person and 210 for 4 people.
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, the
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game that included
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of sport is around 34 per person, almost halved of the price of theme parks'.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • material possessions
  • social status
  • old-fashioned values
  • honour
  • kindness
  • trust
  • societal norms
  • social media platforms
  • value system
  • material wealth
  • personal relationships
  • societal well-being
  • timeless moral values
  • value-driven society
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