Answer:
Well, you can only travel to places close to home. So think of places like restaurants, clothing stores, malls, and other things. You also do not have to do all of your shopping at one store. There is much more variety, only if you want to buy the best items you like just shop at that one store. And, yes, make sure the store is clean. Read reviews to know this.
Answer:
The section gives the good side of celebrating mother's day and the bad side of having mother's day.
Explanation:
Yep, that's basically the whole task. To change the passage to become more 'upbeat', yet still share similar words to the previous words, the following could be changed to...
trudged= plodded
shuffled= staggered
scrutinised= questioned
sparse=meagre
closed in= confined
anxious= eager (Although eager and anxious generally do not share a similar definition, in this context they do as 'anxious' is used to describe being excited to do something, and share the same meaning of 'Very eager or concerned to do something or for something to happen'
pried= wrenched
confronted= suddenly exposed
puzzling=baffling
something=remarkable
used=castoff
questioned=pondered
anxious=uneasy