What can you do if shops don’t sell the clothes you want? How can you get the clothes you want     1     you don’t have much cash?

Young     2     (create) people in the UK have always come up with ways to express their individuality through their clothes. “Printing your own T-shirt is the     3     (easy) and most common way to adapt clothes,” John said. “You don’t have to make a T-shirt. You can buy a cheap T-shirt and add an image of your choice.”

Everyone     4     (know) students don’t have a lot of money. That doesn’t have to be     5    problem if you’ve got a bit of imagination and a sewing machine. “Once I found a pair of trousers     6     I liked but I couldn’t afford them. I bought some cloth of the same colour and copied the trousers,     7     (use) my mum’s sewing machine,” Corinne said. “I went back to the shop wearing my homemade trousers     8     (see) if they were the same as the ones in the shop. And I thought they were much better!”

Buying second-hand clothes is     9     fashion option for many young Brits to get individual styles. “I really love changing second-hand clothes. I can make skirts shorter or longer. Sometimes I just change all the buttons to give clothes a new look. Only     10     adapting these clothes can you be sure you will always have something original as well as cheap,” said Helen.

Originally Double 11    1     (know) as “Singles’ Day”. Since 2009, e-commerce platforms    2     (transform) it from the celebration of being single to a nationwide     3     even worldwide shopping festival, overshadowing Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.

Double 11 sees records    4     (break) each year and customers waiting eagerly for the clock to strike at midnight on November 11. And in 2020,    5     China’s social life basically returning to normal, Chinese consumers were willing to reward     6     (they). Not only the sales figures but the delivery companies had a 50 percent jump.

Double-11 in 2020 had many highlights. E-commerce live streaming (直播) gained great    7     (popular) and became the most eye-catching feature. A large number of celebrities flooded into studios,    8     hosts gave viewers flash deals in real time from lipsticks to tissue paper.

Besides, the year 2020 witnessed the largest pre-orders. The sales actually started on October 21, thus making the Double 11 journey a marathon rather     9     a 24-hour flash sale. And complicated discounts also made the festival quite different.

Undoubtedly, Double 11 festival in 2020 did demonstrate China’s    10     (sustain) consumption recovery after the COVID-19 hit.

How do you usually buy what you need, shopping online or going out to shop in person? With the help of the Internet, shopping is     1     (easy) than before. We can just click our mouse to choose the items we like, pay for them online, and the shopping       2    (finish).It is easy and quick. It helps save money, too. We can save thousands a year if we compare the prices of similar items     3     deciding which to buy.

However, there are always traps in shopping online. If we are not     4     (care),we may get into trouble. For example, we may find the colour of the item different     5     that in the picture online. Sometimes, the size of the item we receive can be too big     6     too small.    7     (avoid) such troubles, we should compare similar items on different online stores and pay more attention to what other customers say. From their     8    (comment),we can know better about an item’s color, size as well as     9     (it) shortcomings. In this way we increase our chance of buying     10     more satisfactory item.

November 11 this year marks the eleventh "Double Eleven" online shopping festival that     1     (start) by E-commerce giant Alibaba in 2009. Hidden behind the large-scale individual     2     (consume), here is one question: Do the Double Eleven discounts really help you to save money?

Double eleven offers various discounts and customers' eyes are full of     3     (advertisement), which costs customers     4     great deal of patience in front of their computers to go through every price combination to work out which one is more     5     (benefit) than the rest. After the shopping madness ends,     6     customers just find is that they don't     7     (true) need these bargains. “I still remember that last year my friends and colleagues kept talking about what things were cheap.     8     (expose) to the atmosphere, I couldn't help     9     (shop) around online. Those goods arrived later, but I was     10     a loss as to how to use them. I suddenly realized the reason why I bought these things was that I was only attracted by the prices” a customer said.

Shopping through Media

With the    1    (develop) of science and technology,   it is much more common for people    2    (buy) goods through different kinds of media than before. People can buy things such as computers and necklaces through TV,   radio,   the Internet,   etc.  

Shopping through media is    3    (welcome) by most people due to various reasons. From the perspective(观点) of consumers,   it can save time for people    4     don’t have much spare time. For retailers(零售商),   it can cut costs for those without much circulating funds. However,   there are still some disadvantages in shopping through media. First,       5    (compare) with face-to-face deal, it seems    6         (little) reliable and trustworthy. Second,   people will lose    7     fun of bargaining.  

    8     my opinion,   although shopping via media brings great convenience to us,   we also should be careful when we go shopping through media. We should check the information    9    (release) by the media. Only in this way can we fully enjoy the    10    (convenient) brought by media shopping without the concern of being cheated.

While much attention is paid to the outside of a bag-its design, brand and, unavoidably, its price tag, most people tends    1    (ignore) the rich and complex internal life hidden in it.

When a woman    2    (step) out in the 1740s, on a regular basis, her private    3    (belong) would have included a watch, money, jewelry and perhaps some food. These are    4    she chose to take out. By the 1860s, she may have included scissors, a purse, and a magnifying glass. She would have worn these in the form of a chatelaine-a series of small purses    5    (attach) to the waist. What many women carry in their bags some three centuries later is    6    (remarkable) unchanged. One friend lists the contents; A book, a phone, cosmetics, keys, etc.

“The content is so important,” says Lucia Savi, a bag designer, “Hand bags had to be at least bigger than    7    $5 note, as bank notes came in, ”Now we carry phones wherever we go, so it is time that phones    8    (determine) design. More surprisingly, no matter how ordinary the bag looks,     9    can communicate something about the owner. So what your bag can convey    10    (be) your status, or your belief.

In China, Single’s Day has become a shopping day. It is more like a shopping spree (狂欢) where many Chinese people wait in front of their computers     1     00:01 and then buy anything they can. It is a bit like the Black Friday in the US, a shopping festival which     2     (celebrate) around the world nowadays.

Black Friday is on the     3     (four) Friday of November,     4     is the day after Thanksgiving Day. Every year, after eating Thanksgiving dinner, many American people start to line up outside the shopping malls, hoping to be     5     first customer to be able to buy the products. Some even set up a tent and spend the whole night     6     (wait).

Black Friday started in the 1980s and now it     7     (become) a part of the American culture. Though many     8     (shop) also sell their products online, a lot of people still like to stand in line and wait the whole night. The great discounts encourage them to wait. Many products can be bought at the     9     (low) price, which saves them a lot of money.

It can be a great joy for the whole family     10     (rush) into the malls and buy a lot of things.

The Day After Thanksgiving (Friday) is known as Black Friday. This used to be unofficially or officially the start of holiday shopping season. Almost all stores come out with special early bird offers     1     (attract) consumers to their shop. People stand in line hours before the stores are opened, to grab the bargains of the year. In the last few years, we     2     (witness) a trend towards bringing those Black Friday Sales online before Friday.

In the last few years (starting from 2013 to be precise), Black Friday Sales have started before Friday—with some stores     3     (start) their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day or even on Wednesday and Monday. It would not be surprising to see Black Friday sale starting on Monday on the Black Friday week.

The closest reason for     4     it is known as Black Friday     5     (give) in Wikipedia. Many retailers report some of     6     (they) highest profits on Black Friday. The black portion of the name, “Black Friday” relates to businesses recording their     7     (lose) in red ink and gains in black. This tradition lives on in modern accounting software.

Deals websites like Dealsofamerica.com started to highlight “Black Friday sales” from 2003     8     then the retailers picked it up.     9     (essential), Black Friday is an Internet term. But before it, people used to regard the sales     10     “Day after Thanksgiving Sale”.

Jane was walking round the department store.She remembered how difficult    1    was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that this year she could    2    ( easy ) buy a special one     3    ( please ) him, just like her mother, who was always delighted to receive her gift.

Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not     4    pleasant experience: people stepped on your feet or     5    ( push ) you with their elbows ( 肘部 )，hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.

Jane paused in front of a counter     6    some attractive ties were on display. “ They are real silk, ” the assistant tried to attract her.“ Worth double the price. ” But Jane knew from past experience that her     7    ( choose ) of ties hardly ever pleased her father.

Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality pipes on sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smoked a pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please     8    .

When Jane got home, with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already     9    table having supper. Her mother was excited. “ Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,” Jane     10    ( inform ).

10 . I was wandering into the small store, when the store owner received a call from a customer. The customer and his wife had shopped there several months before. When noticing that his wife really liked one thing in the store, he wanted to buy it as a surprise. Because time was limited, out     1     (go) the couple without buying it. It was not until several months later that the customer wanted to buy it.

But the customer was in Tennessee, living far away from the store which was in Maine. What was more, he had been to the store several months before, and it was difficult to believe that the store owner would remember him, or     2     it was that he was referring to. There were     3     (diversity) goods in the store. The customer’s question was whether she could do it. She said yes. The store owner advised him to describe the thing for her and so he did.

    4     (inform) what the thing was like, the store owner took a few close-up photos with her camera, and e-mailed them to the customer. Having received the photos, then the customer decided which one was the very thing.

Then the customer said, “Now it is time we discussed a price over the phone.” Apart     5     discussing the price, they also decided the time to send it. Then she took care of the credit card transaction(交易) online, and the customer proposed the gift     6     (send) that afternoon. Then the agreement was reached. The customer said. “I live far away from your place now.     7    , I would get it myself.”

The store owner was really smart. She wasn’t necessarily     8     (talent) for new technology but she was willing to push herself to find new ways to make the transaction (交易) actually happen. It was not a dramatic thing. It was the first time she had ever done it. Never before had she done such a thing.

    9     difficult it was, the store owner discovered a creative solution     10     (contribute) to a new way of doing business. In my view, we should realize that challenge and opportunity go hand in hand.