This week, we’re preparing for one of the newest ____(tradition) events in our country: Black Friday. It’s that crazy gathering of retail (零售)-related violence, a time____stores offer once-a-year promotional sales to set off the customers’ greediness and jump-start the Christmas shopping season with a sudden activity in a ____ (crowd) space.

    The general feeling has been set by the Hamleys Christmas Toy Parade in London, in which 800,000 people ran into Regent Street, apparently attracted by ____possibility of a “meet-and-greet” with Peppa Pig that sadly ____(have) to be cancelled at the last moment on safety grounds. As it was, a middle-aged woman ____(report) had to be taken to hospital after ____ (knock) to the ground in a fight with another woman.

    For the people who dislike shopping, such as me, any day with shopping in it is a black day, and Black Friday is the most worrying ____all. However, I can see the reasoning for retailers. Why spend a lot of money on newspaper ads, when you can offer 50 iPhone Xs at £5 each to the first fifty____(consume)? The related media ____ (cover) of the resulting disorder is, as they say, priceless.