My favorite day is Sunday. On Sunday, I always have ________ at 9:00 in the morning. Then I go to the library to ________. It’s fun. In the afternoon, I meet my friends. We play sports like tennis, basketball and soccer. After dinner, I play computer games or watch movies at home.

This Sunday is November 11th, the Double Shopping Day in China. It is ________ good time to buy things. My mother   _______ me to stay at home with her and go shopping online. She says the shops sell a lot of things ________ very good prices, and she buys a lot of things for ________. My grandfather’s birthday is in December and she buys a ________ for him. It looks very nice on the head. She buys a pair of ping-pong bats for my brother. Ping-pong is my brother’s favorite sport. My father’s shirt is old, so she buys a ________ one for him. ________ is it? It is only 120 yuan. I get two model planes. ________ are very interesting to play with and I like them very much. This Sunday I have a great time with my mother.

2 . Many people like to shop online（网上购物）now. Why? Sometimes we ______ have much time to go to stores. If (如果) we want to shop online, we only need a ______ and the Internet (网络). If we shop online, we can go to many stores in a ______ time, and we can ______ things from all over the world (来自全世界).

______ can we find the right online stores? Let me ______ you. First, go to an online store with a good reputation (名誉). Next, ______ at the reviews (评论) about the things of the store. From these, we can know about the ______ and the things we want to buy. Then we can ______ our friends about some good online stores. ______ can help us.

3 . As teenagers, maybe you are interested in blind (失明的) boxes. Some of you have got blind box toys ________ online stores. But why does this kind of shopping become popular in China?

You may have different ideas. Firstly, the box adds more ________ and fun to your buying experience. Because you don’t know what is inside the box, you want to ________ your luck. Secondly, blind boxes are really cheap. As a student, you don’t have too much money, so you want to save some for yourself. ________, on Taobao and Pinduoduo, some blind boxes are sold for prices as low as 9.9 yuan. Thirdly, you may get something such as a pet dog your parents wouldn’t buy for you. If this is your choice, you are really wrong. Because your parents are adults, they know ________ you should get.

On May 3, 2021, about 160 pet dogs and cats were found at a business outlet of ZTO Express (快递) in Chengdu. Sellers were ready to put ________ in boxes to be sent to different places through the express. When volunteers found those animals, ________ most of the dogs were jumping, four of them were dead (死亡的) and many were sick. So what do you think of the blind box pet event in Chengdu? If you really love animals, you are ________ angry. You are probably hoping that people can stop the sale of blind box pets You may ask your parents to buy a pet in a pet store near your home. Whatever your choice is, it shows that you are a(n) ________ teenager.

Blind box toys are ________ in some ways because of their cute looks. But remember: Animals are our friends, so we should love them and make them keep away from blind boxes! So from now on, let’s stop buying such blind box. And it’s time for us to play a part in saving and protecting them.

Many people like to shop online now. Why? Sometimes we ______ have much time to go to the stores. If we want to shop online, we only need a ______ and the Internet. If we shop online, we can go to many online stores in a ______ time, and we can ______ things from all over the world.

______ can we find the right online stores? Let me ______ you. First, go to ______ store with a good reputation (名誉). Second, read other shoppers’ reviews (评论). From these, we can know about the ______ and the things we want to buy. Third, we can ______ our friends about some good online stores. ______ can help us.

In America, Black Friday is many people’s _________ day. It is on the fourth Friday in November. On Black Friday, many stores sell things at very good _________. Americans always buy a lot of things in real stores. They often get up very early in the _________, stand and wait （等待） for hours to _________ their favorite things.

In China, there isn’t Black Friday, _________ there is “Double Eleven Day（双11）”. On _________ 11^th, many Chinese people like to buy lot of things from online （网络的） shops because they can save money.

Wang Lin is a Chinese student. She wants to buy some things for her _________ that day. First, she wants to buy a birthday gift for her mother. Maybe she will buy an orange sweater for her because it’s cold now. Second, she wants to buy a _________ watch for her father. He lost his watch yesterday. She wants to buy some snacks（小吃） for the school _________ next Friday. Wang Lin feels very _________ now.

6 . There are many new ways of shopping, and online shopping is one of them. You can buy almost everything on the ________ , and it’s very easy. First, you ________ something—clothes, tickets, a mobile phone, even a new computer—and ________ for it. Then you will get it a few days later.

There are some advantages（优点）. First, you can shop at ________ time. The shops are always open. Second,   ________ in the stores usually takes us a lot of time. But you only need a computer and a mouse to shop on the Internet! And you can get better and ________ things, you will save lots of money.

But many people like going out and shopping ________ friends. They don’t like shopping on the Internet because they can’t see the product（商品） or ________ the clothes on. Also paying over the Internet isn’t always safe.

Online shopping is changing our way of ________. One day no one will go to the shops anymore, because you’ll ________ buy anything on the Internet, and you will get it anywhere in the world at any time!

7 . Do you like shopping on the Internet (互联网)? 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 (网店) for ______. I am shy. It is ______ for me to talk to the shopkeepers (店主) in real shops.

Sometimes online shops have pictures of the book. They can show you some pages (页) 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 ______ what to say to them.

I can ______ at 12 o’ clock at night if I like. Real shops close at nine o’ clock in the evening. Some people may worry that the postman (邮递员) may lose or damage (损坏) the things they ______ from online shops, ______ 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 ______ you can go with your friends and look at many different things. ______ call this (称之为) window shopping. I don’t like to talk too much and I don’t have any friends and it makes me ______, but I can shop online.

I am ______ my grandmother how to shop online. She ______ 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 ______ most of the time. When he has a little free time, he can shop online.

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Today, I go to the supermarket to buy something necessary and buy a present for my mum.

There is a sale on today. I ______ a pair of shoes, but it is 500 yuan. It is too much. So I want to buy it on the Internet. Do you often buy things on the Internet? Nowadays, many people like shopping online, and it is one of the ______ ways of shopping. There are lots of ______ . First, you can buy ______ everything on the Internet. You can choose anything you like and pay for it. Then you will ______ it a few days later by post. Second, you can shop at any time on the Internet. You only ______ a computer and a mouse. You can also compare the ______ of the same product. That can help you save money.

But my mother likes going out and shopping with her friends. When she goes out for a trip, she likes shopping in the local (当地的) stores or supermarkets. If she doesn’t know the ______, she will check the map on the mobile phone. To ______ the route (路线), she writes it on a piece of paper to help her. She is able to see it on the way. I think shopping in stores or supermarkets usually takes my mother a lot of time. I hope she can have a try to shop online.

Online shopping is ______ our way of life. Maybe one day no one will go to the shops any more.

10 . 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 _________ people can buy 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 _________ when you buy clothes online. Not everything online is worth (值得) buying. __________ the colour doesn’t look the same as on your screen. And you don’t know which are good without trying them on.