【推荐2】People have many friends in the world. They make people’s lives more interesting and colourful. Dogs are people’s honest friends. Cats, elephants, camels, horses and cows are people’s ________ friends. Do you think that computers are people’s friends, too? Now let me tell you _______ about it.

We live in the “computer age”. People, ______ scientists, teachers, writers and even students, use computers to do all kinds of work. But about 40 years ago, ______ couldn’t do much work. They were very big and expensive. Very ______ people were interested in them and knew how to use them. Today computers are smaller and ______. And they can do a lot of work. Many people like to use them. ______ people have them at home.

Computers became very important because they can work ______ than men and make fewer mistakes. Computers can help people do a lot of work. Teachers use them to help teaching. Students use them ______ and children use them to play games. Computers are very useful and helpful. It is ______ that computers are our good friends. Computers have changed people’s lives. They make people’s lives better and better.

Though chopsticks are used in many Asian countries, they have their beginnings in China. Chinese________says that China had chopsticks as far back as the Xia Dynasty（夏朝），In the Spring and Autumn Period copper and iron chopsticks appeared. Then in the Han Dynasty lacquered（涂漆）chopsticks came. Gold and silver chopsticks followed later. Today we have chopsticks________of plastic. The most expensive ones are made of tusks of elephants and hard green stones.

Chopsticks tell Chinese: tradition in their way. In ancient times the rich used gold chopsticks________their wealth. In history many kings used silver chopsticks to take their food to see________it was poisonous（有毒的）. It was said that if it was，the silver chopsticks would________color. Chopsticks are traditionally given to a daughter when she marries to show that they should have a son very soon, for “chopstick ” in Chinese is pronounced,________“quick a son”!

Tianzhu chopsticks from Hangzhou, wooden chopsticks from Shangyang of Shaanxi Province, and Beijing’s chopsticks are________. Chopsticks appeared in the old Chinese story: An old man________his sons a lesson by showing how he can easily break a single chopstick but not a number of them. In China chopsticks are________good luck. So on the Chinese New Year’s Eve many families will________new chopsticks at dinners as a way of making requests for good luck

Online shopping is very popular in the world. Almost 85% of Internet users in America like to ________ online.

Online shopping is easy and ________ because people can do their shopping on a computer at home. When you visit an online shop, choose things and then pay ________ them. Several days later, you can receive it by ________.

There are some ________ of shopping online. Online shopping is popular during the shopping season because people can ________ things online at any time of the day, and they don’t need to ________ in long lines in big supermarkets. That is to say, online shopping can save ________.

But you must be careful when you buy clothes online. Not everything online is worth(值得) trying. ________ the color doesn’t look the same as on your computer. And you don’t ________ which are good without trying them on.

【推荐2】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.

【推荐3】Online shopping is more and more popular. You can shop without________your house. Just sit in front of your computer, click your________and your things will be sent to your house in several days.

Last November 11th, many online stores offered a big discount(折扣)and free delivery________. The biggest online shopping sites in China, taobao.com and t-mall.com, sold________worth 19.1 billion yuan in total.

“Goods online are often much cheaper. It also________me a lot of time. And we often find more goods online to________than in shopping malls.” said Wang Xin, an online shopping lover in Beijing. She________late for a lot of cheap goods online.

Another big________of online shopping is that it helps people get things from different places________. “I like eating duck necks very much and Taobao makes it________for me to buy them from shops in Wuhan.” said Zhang Xi, a girl in Yangzhou.

While enjoying online shopping, many people also have worries,_________for middle school student buyers. Young students are easily attracted by advertisements on the Internet and________things they don’t need.

“Middle school students________pay more attention to their studies. Searching for things wastes their time,” said Jing Chunling, an education expert. “Besides, online shop owners have no idea of the________of their buyers. Anyone can easily buy things they want. Some of the goods are ________for young students such as cigarettes(香烟) and wine(酒).”