Mrs White is a housewife. She has much time looking after her family. She lives in ________ big city. She ________ shopping every weekend. Sometimes she buys some food ________ the family, and sometimes she buys coats, shoes, bags and so on. She enjoys buying cheap ________. She thinks she should ________ money.

Mrs White’s daughter Kate likes to go shopping very much. She goes to some shops when she is ________ every Saturday. She likes going with ________ classmate Judy. They sometimes buy many things, ________ sometimes they don’t buy anything. They only look at the things in the shops. That makes them very ________. This Saturday she buys a pair of sunglasses for herself. She is going ________ for a holiday with her family this summer holiday.

Life is getting better and better now. Many people like shopping on the Internet. Do you like shopping online? I like buying magazines online. They are often ________, so you don’t have to spend much money. And I am ________. It is hard for me to ________ to the shopkeepers in real shops. Sometimes online shops can ________ you some pictures of the magazines. I think it is very helpful. I don’t like to read magazines in ________ because the keepers may come and talk with me. I don’t know what to say to them.

I can shop at ________ if I want to. Real shops close at 10 o’clock in the evening. Some people think the postman(快递员)sometimes may break or lose their things, but I don’t ________ that. I think most of the postmen are very kind and careful. I am ________ my grandfather how to shop online now. He is too ________ to walk far so it’s good for him to shop online. My little sister ________ wants to learn how to shop online. It’s interesting for her.

Where can you go shopping in the UK if you don’t have much money? Read on to find out the answer.

Charity (慈善) shops

There are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. And people like shopping there. Things in these shops are cheap. When you buy something, the money will go to help people in need. Oxfam is one of these shops. People often buy different kinds of things there. Then Oxfam uses the money to help poor people around the world.

Car boot sales (旧货市场)

What do British people do with their old things? They often take them to a car boot sale on Saturdays and Sundays! People like shopping in this way. Because they never know what they may find at the sale. Someone buys an old picture there with $1 and later finds it is worth (值) $500,000!

Swap shops

Do you want to get some new clothes without spending any money? The answer is a swap shop! Your clothes have to be of good quality (质量) and look new. Then you can swap clothes with others. Swap shops are popular with fashionable people.

We often buy things in a shop, a market or a supermarket. Shopping always     36     much time.

We usually have to walk around     37     a long time to look for the things we want. Sometimes we have to carry many heavy shopping     38    . We are always very tired after we do shopping.

Now it changes a lot. We can buy many things at home,     39     we don’t need to go to the shops. We can buy many good and     40     clothes on the Internet. They     41     nice on us but don’t cost(花费) much. It seems easy and quick, but it sometimes brings     42     some problems. For example, my cousin wants a cool coat, but the coat he buys on the Internet is different from what he wants, and the     43     is too small. You may see many people     44     the same clothes in the street. Do you know why?

Because they all like to buy clothes on the Internet.     45     interesting it is! Where would you like to buy things?

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假如你是李华，你的外国笔友汤姆的妈妈的生日快要到了，他不知道要买什么礼物给妈妈，希望你能给他一些建议。请你给他回封电子邮件，说一下你的想法。

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Yours,

Li Hua