Recently, many people have begun to try a new way of doing shopping through the Internet. They are very interested _________ it. Why is it becoming more and more popular now? There are some _________.

First, more and more people _________ their own computers and their computers can be joined with the Internet. _________ it is possible for many of them to do shopping through the Internet. Second, shopping through the Internet can save them some money and _________ time. Third, they don’t need to go to the _________ themselves. Because of these good facts, few people refuse it.

On the other hand, some people don’t like this new way of _________. They are _________ about the safety of shopping online. Customers (顾客) can only _________ the pictures of a product on the Internet. And they can’t enjoy the pleasure of buying things in a large supermarket or a wonderful shopping center. These are the reasons why they do not like it.

But I think more and more people __________ this new kind of shopping in the future.

Do you like shopping on the Internet (互联网)? I like to buy books online. Usually, the price isn’t very ______. You don’t have to pay a lot. When I want to know something about a book, I write an e-mail to the online shop (网店) for ______. I am shy. It is ______ for me to talk to the shopkeepers (店主) in real shops.

Sometimes online shops have pictures of the book. They can show you some pages (页) of the book, too. I think this is very ______. I don’t like to read books in shops because the shopkeepers may come and talk to me. I ______ what to say to them.

I can ______ at 12 o’ clock at night if I like. Real shops close at nine o’ clock in the evening. Some people may worry that the postman (邮递员) may lose or damage (损坏) the things they ______ from online shops, ______ I don’t worry about that. I think it is hard to damage a book and most of the postmen are very careful.

Some people say that shopping in real shops is good ______ you can go with your friends and look at many different things. ______ call this (称之为) window shopping. I don’t like to talk too much and I don’t have any friends and it makes me ______, but I can shop online.

I am ______ my grandmother how to shop online. She ______ walk very far, so it will make shopping easy for her if she shops online. My brother ______ wants to learn how to do it. He is very ______ most of the time. When he has a little free time, he can shop online.