Do you like shopping on the Internet? I like to buy books online. Usually, the price isn’t very ________. You don’t have to pay a lot. When I want to know something about a book, I write an e-mail to the online shop for an answer. I am shy. It is difficult for me to ________ the shopkeepers in real shops.

Sometimes online shops have pictures of the book. They can show you some pages of the book, too. I think this is very ________. I don’t like to read books in shops because the shopkeepers may come and talk to me. I don’t know ________ to say to them.

I can shop at midnight if I want to. Real shops ________ at nine o’clock in the evening. Some people think they can ________ things from online shops, but the postman (邮递员) may lose or damage (损坏) their things. But I don’t worry about that. I think it is hard to damage a book and most of the postmen are very careful.

Some people say that shopping in real shops is good because you can go with your friends and ________ many different things. They call this window shopping. I don’t have any friends and I don’t like to talk too much — it makes me ________ .

I am ________ my grandmother how to shop online. She cannot walk very far so it will make shopping easy for her if she shops online. My brother ________ wants to learn how to do it. He is very busy most of the time. When he has a little free time, he can shop online.