1 . I've discovered the joy of a new thing. Online grocery shopping. But I actually enjoy going to the supermarket.
Seems I'm not the only one，only about 3% of people do grocery shopping online，compared with around 30 % who shop for clothes and electronics. I was interested，so I decided to do my own very unscientific research.
Step one: I talked to a small group of friends about their preferences.One mother described it as the happiest thing in her week when she was stuck at home with two small kids and handsome young men would arrive at the door bearing groceries.Seems busy mums are very much in favour of home deliveries(送货).
Step two: sign up and try it myself. My choice was Aussie-owned Countdown.
I managed to do the whole shop in about 15 minutes. The only problem is that you have to place an order of at least $ 50 and pay the seemingly standard $ 15 delivery fee. But given the cost of groceries，who has ever left a supermarket spending less than $ 50? l was impressed Countdown offered same-day delivery on a Sunday when I placed my order at 9:30 am.
Sure enough，at about 2:30 pm，I got a phone call from a delightful courier chap（快递员)called Ian，who told me he was at my house with the groceries and was leaving them on the back deck. Two minutes later he called again saying he'd left the groceries in the house because we'd left the backdoor wide open.He even offered to lock the house up and put the key some where safe.
I have a real fear that we will more and more quickly move to online shopping for everything and shops will become something of the past.
As a teenager，hanging around the shops on a Saturday with friends is what we did.So even though I enjoy the experience of online grocery shopping，perhaps I'll just stick with my regular trips to my local New World to keep real shops alive a bit longer.
1. What did the mother mentioned in Paragraph 3 think of online grocery shopping?| A．She loved it. | B．She was against it. |
| C．She would give it a try. | D．She had no interest in it. |
| A．Its high quality groceries. | B．Its low delivery fees. |
| C．Its good service. | D．Its low prices. |
| A．She finds it much easier. | B．She can save more money |
| C．She has a fond feeling for it. | D．She had a bad online shopping experience. |
| A．Is Online Shopping Popular? | B．The Joy of Grocery Shopping |
| C．The Future of Online Shopping | D．Is Supermarket Shopping Dying? |
