Online shopping started not so long ago. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide

Online shopping started not so long ago.Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990. The first online bankopened in 1994. In 1995, Amazon started operating and is now one of the largestonline shopping malls. Then in 1996, eBay started its online shopping site.

By sitting at home you can now buy anythingfrom knives to cars. The worry you may have about traveling and parking can beavoided while you shop online. With online shopping, you need not worry aboutthe weather. Online shops have no holidays, closing times or any otherproblems. You can shop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Someonline shops also keep customers’ opinions about each product, so you caneasily find out what other customers think about the product before buying it.

When you go for real-world shopping, youcan actually touch and feel it, but in online shopping you can only see thepictures. Also if you are shopping online, you have to be careful with yourcredit cards.

The first step in online shopping is tosearch for what you want to buy. Once you find the required product, put it ina “shopping cart” and continue shopping. After you have got enough in your“shopping cart”, check out the product. You can add or take out the products inyour shopping cart. The next step is to login(登录) using a username and a password. Enter theaddress where you want the product to be sent. Some sites even ask for youremail, phone numbers, etc. Then wait for the confirmation(确认)of your order. You can alsocancel the order if needed. Online shopping is a different experience and youcan make shopping online easy when you get used to it.

51. When shopping online, you can _______.

A. buy anything wherever yougo      B. park your cars where you wantto   

C. touch anything you want tobuy     D. know what others think of the product

52. The second paragraph mainly tells us______.

A. the things people can buy in onlineshops

B. people can know different opinions ofcustomers

C. people can do online shopping at theirown homes

D. the advantages people can have throughonline shopping

53. From the text we can know that ______.

A. customers needn’t have a username to buysomething online

B. customers must give their emails as wellas their phone numbers

C. customers should be careful with theircredit cards when shopping online

D. once customers put the products in their“shopping carts”, they can’t change them

54. If you want to buy a cup online, whatis the right order of the following things you can do?

a. Enter the address

b. Search for a right cup

c. Wait for the confirmation of the order

d. Put the cup into your “shopping cart”

A. b-c-d-a    B.b-d-a-c    C. a-b-c-d    D. c-d-a-b

试题答案

【答案】

D    D     C     B

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