| Internet shopping is a new way of
shopping. Nowadays, you can shop for just about anything from your armchair. All
you need is a computer which is linked to the Internet. Shopping on the Internet
is becoming increasingly popular. In the United States. people spent over US$2.5
billion on Internet shopping in 1998. This figure is expected to reach USS11
billion by the year 2004. People can shop for a variety of products on the Internet. Physical products include items such as books, CDs, clothes and foods. These types of products are the most common purchases through the Internet. You can also buy information products such as on-line news or magazine stories, or you can download computer software through the Internet. Services such as booking airline tickets, reserving hotels or renting cars are also available on the Internet. Yo A. the most popular products on the Internet B. not yet available on the Internet C. everywhere on the internet and free to download D. information products available on the Internet [单项选择]Internet shopping from 1998 to 2005 has increased by （ ）.
A. three times B. almost two times C. almost four times D. almost five times [填空题]In search of an Internet shopping site, people can simply put "www" at the start of a shop’s name or ". com" at the end.
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The Internet is a way of life for US college students. A recent survey by Harris Interactive and 360 youth found that 93 per cent of American college students visit the Internet, and this market is expected to grow from 15.2 million in 2003 to 16.4 million in 2007. [单项选择]
Communicating in the New Age E-mail is a new way of communication in every area all over the world. It is a means of ’meeting’ people with similar interests or problems. E-mailers ’write’ letters at leisure on their computers, then send them through their telephone line to an on-line computer (联机上网的电脑) far away. E-mail addresses — either names or numbers — automatically send mails to the right locations (站点). E-mailing is not a live conversation, but reply can be back at once or within hours, depending on how often the receiver checks in his computer. E-mail can also create friendship and draw families closer. E-mailers sit in comfortable chairs and ’chat’ with the friends or relatives in other parts of the country or of the world in front of the screen. Linda, a first-year student at Oxford University in Britain, drops a few lines to her mother in New York whenever she is near a computer. ’It’s funny, ’says her mother. ’We talk more 我来回答: 提交
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