There are many online food shopping sites（网址）. This is very surprising. Things like CDs, MP3, magazines and DVDs sell well online. But it is quite different to sell food online because people like to see food with their own eyes. It is very important for people to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. People like to choose their food by its color. They also want to feel and smell it. But some people like to go to the same shop to buy food, because they think the food there are very good. So if the food is always good, they may also feel comfortable（舒适的） buying it online.

Boxes of fruit and vegetables have been delivered（运送） to homes around Britain for a few years now. Dried or canned（罐装的） foods are almost always the same, but things like apples are not. People may want to choose their own apples so they can take the ones that aren’t bruised（碰伤）or the ones that look nice. Buy dried and canned food online is easier. A person can buy this kind of food on the Internet and then buy fruits and vegetables at a store or a market.

Now people can also buy food through supermarket websites. There people can find most of the things that supermarkets usually sell. Other food websites sell different types of food. Some sell food from one part of the world, such as Asia and Africa. Others sell food that is hard to find in supermarkets. There are also websites that sell foods, such as cakes and candies.

The food is usually delivered by the next day or even on the same day. People still need to be careful, though. They must check to see if the food is fresh when they get it. It is a good idea for people to find out how far away the food is being sent from. It is also a problem if the company does not use refrigeration（冷藏）when they deliver food that should be kept cold. If traveling a long way in summer to deliver the goods（货物）, this is important.

1．What does the writer think of the food shopping sites today?

    A．Interesting.             B．Surprising.              C．Perfect.           D．Expensive.

2．Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

    A．Fresh fruit and vegetables aren’t easier to sell than books online.

    B．There is difference between shopping online and shopping in stores.

    C．The foods bought online are always better than those in the supermarket.

    D．People like to buy dried food more than choose fruit on the Internet.

3．What does the third paragraph（段）mainly tell us?

    A．It tells us there are many websites on the Internet.

    B．It introduces several types of food websites to us.

    C．It tells us how to keep food from the websites cold.

    D．It teaches us what to do after we get food online.

4．What advice does the writer give us in the last paragraph?

    A．It is necessary to check the food when it is brought to your home.

    B．Shopping food online should be under control of our governments.

    C．Shopping online will have a much better future.

D．The writer suggests that food companies should improve their services.

Train-spotting
Many people around the world have seen Danny Boyle’s movie Train spotting starring Ewan McGregor, but how many of us really know what train-spotting is all about? Now this is not considered cool in town and the word “train-spotter” in Britain is related to “geek” or “nerd” (someone who seems very ridiculous). But is this reputation really deserved?
First of all, let’s see what train-spotting is. It is said that there are some 100,000 train spotters in the UK. Exactly as the title suggests, they spot trains, that is, they stand in train stations, look at the number of each train that leaves and arrives and write it down. The eventual aim is to have seen every train in the country.
Being crazy about railways and trains is not modern and it dates back to 1804. As the number of trains grew and they got faster and faster, so did the interest in them grow? Is this any stranger than people who love cars?
So, what do you need to be a train-spotter? Well, all you really need is a pen or pencil and a notebook to write down the train numbers. Other equipment(装备) includes hot tea in a thermos, a camera and some sandwiches for those long afternoons spent on train platforms when you don’t want to risk the delights of railway station food.
It’s interesting to note that despite the “bad name” of train-spotting, there have been famous railway lovers in history, such as Alfred Hitchcock, who filmed them regularly, especially The 39 Steps. There is evidence, too, that being a train-spotter is not necessarily a strange phenomenon（现象）in Britain.
One glance at the US train stations should be enough to convince you that train-spotters there are alive and well. In America, they try to call rail lovers “train-fans” and talk of “train-fanning”. Don’t let this fool you—these people are train spotters and there are a lot of them. Each month, two million pages are visited on the website TrainWeb.org.                     
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【小题1】What is train-spotting according to the passage?