20．Buying Lottery Tickets

两个图表显示的是两个调查结果。图表一反映了北京、上海、广州三个城市里梦想有一天中500万的人的比例，平均为70％，图表二反映了中奖后，人们想做的事。

（海天英语老师写作提示：图表一课用于描述现象，图表二可用于分析现象，作为考生论点（支持或反对买彩票）的论据。）

Nowadays, more and more people, especially in big cities, become interested in buying lottery tickets(彩票). According to chart 1, averagely 70 percent of those polled in the survey, held in the three big cities, claimed to have dreamed of winning the big prize of five-million yuan. 85 percent of those polled in Guangzhou had had such a dream, compared with 65 percent and 60 percent, respectively, in Beijing and Shanghai.

The attraction of buying lottery tickets is obvious. The winner can get the biggest profit for the future with only a small investment. It realizes the beautiful dream of every participant—to be richer and to improve living standards. As is shown in Char 2, should they win a big lottery, 81.3% of  people  would buy a new house, 61.7% would buy save the money for their kid’s education. And a great proportion of people say they would put the money in the bank or use it for investment or touring. However, this phenomenon has also come under criticism. Some regard it as a kind of gambling, which is potentially addictive behavior.

In my opinion, buying lottery tickets is not so bad as some people think. Instead, it is good for society by creating new jobs and representing an important source of charity and sports causes. Of course, it is not a means of making money for individual we should encourage, because the result is hardly predictable. Therefore, we should take a positive but cautious attitude towards lottery buying behavior.