Online shopping is more and more popular. You can shop without leaving your house. Just sit in front of your computer, click your _______ and your things will be sent to your house in several days.

On 11 November, 2020, tmall.com, the biggest online shopping site in China, _______ things worth more than 370 billion yuan in total.

“Goods（商品）online are often much cheaper. It also _______ me a lot of time. I can _______ different kinds of goods online and I don’t need to go to different shopping mall, ” said Wang Xin, an online shopping lover in Beijing. She often stayed up until midnight to buy a lot of cheap goods _______ during shopping festivals.

Online shopping also helps people get things from different places _______. “I like eating duck necks very much and Tmall makes it _______ for me to buy them from shops in Wuhan, ” said Zhang Xi, a girl in Yangzhou.

While enjoying online shopping, many people also have _______ especially for middle school student buyers. They are attracted（吸引）by advertisements on the Internet and buy things they don’t need. Besides, online shop owners have no idea of their buyers’ _______. People, even young students, can buy anything they want. Some of the goods are ________ for them such as cigarettes and wine.

Grandma knitted Dad a sweater for his birthday. It was PURPLE. Glow-in-the-dark purple!

Dad ________ it. He wore the sweater all the time, even when he came to my school.

“But it’s so...purple!” I said to Dad. He didn’t care.

I was ________ when spring arrived because he stopped wearing it. But once the weather cooled again, that purple sweater came out of hiding.

“Don’t you want to wear your other sweaters?” I asked. “The purple one looks like it’s from outer space.”

“That’s why I love ________!” he said, smiling.

One day, we visited Uncle Bill’s farm. Dad tore his sweater on a fence and a hole appeared.

I thought he would not wear the sweater anymore, ________ he decided to wear it around the house. Several days later, the hole got bigger. One night, at dinner, he twisted the noodles and the purple yarn (纱线) onto his fork. Then he opened his ________.

“Look out, Dad!” I shouted. “You’re about to eat your sweater.”

Dad laughed, but knew it was time to throw away the sweater. He just stood there, looking sad.

It made me sad too. I ________ the day he got it, all the days he wore it, the day he tore it, and even the day he almost ate it, and that gave me a(n) ________ for this year’s art show at school.

“Wait, Dad! May I have it?” I asked.

“ ________?” Dad asked.

“You’ll see.”

I used the purple yarn ________ the sweater and the art materials that I have already had to make my work of art. To my surprise (惊喜、惊讶), I won first prize!

“It’s the ________ ending for my sweater,” said Dad.

Many people are superstitious(迷信的) about numbers. They think that there are lucky numbers and ________ numbers.

The number 13 is often considered(被认为) unlucky. In ________ parts of the world, buildings don’t have the ________ floor. People go from the twelfth to the fourteenth ________. Some door numbers are like that ________. In Japan, the number 4 is considered unlucky because in Japan the word “four” is pronounced the same as the word “death”. The Japanese ________ give gifts of four knives, four napkins or four of anything. ________ are lucky numbers?

7 is a lucky number in many places, and 8 is considered a lucky number both in Japan and China. In China, businesses often open ________ August 8, and many couples get married at 8:08 on August 8. Some people ________ in lucky numbers very deeply. They would like to get a telephone number with “8” or “6” in it though it ________ them much more money. They think that the lucky numbers can really bring them good luck, and, at least no evidence(证据) says they can not.