I have been using the Internet since I was five years old, when my dad first sat me down in front of a computer and connected me the World Wide Web.
I’ve always felt like a master of the Internet world. AOL Instant Messaging, MSN, Gmail, Facebook. Myspace---I’ve got it all under control. I thought there was nothing more to it besides checking my e-mail and wasting my time, until I was introduced to electronic commerce(e-commerce): business on the Internet.
Some online business are run from one- room home offices. Others have hundreds of employee(雇员)spread across five different continent. Have you ever heard of Amazon. com, Yahoo. com?
My friends often said they got cheap textbooks off Amazon.com, or had a good deal(交易)on Steve Madden boots that were on sale at SteveMaden.com. Unfortunately for me, I continued my “e-commerceless” Web-surfing, unaware(不知道)of all the deals I was missing out on.
That is, of course, until my sister finally sold the idea to me.
“Why are all these packages arriving in the mail for you, Katy?” I asked her one day. Strange envelopes had been put on our doorstep for weeks now, each one always addressed to my sister; and we all know little sisters should never be getting more mail than their elders!
“Oh, it’s the things I ordered online!” she answered. I watched speechlessly as she opened them. There was no way our parents were letting her spend that much money- online or off!
“How much did all of this coat?”
“Oh, only about $15in all!” She said excitedly. “Everything on eBay is on sale! It’s way better than going to the mall.”
I felt as if my entire life, there had been a store right in my backyard that I had never walked into! That week, I ordered a used Spanish textbook for my summer course online for 10 percent of the publishing price. A few days later, I bought an iPod protector and a book or two via the wonderful eBay.com.
【小题1】From the first two paragraph we can conclude that the author        

Nowadays some people like to buy what they want through the Internet, which really brings us lots of conveniences．If you have a computer linked with the internet by telephone or another, you can just move the mouse, fill in some forms about your personal information and the information of the company which you are buying things from, then the clerk from the company will send what you need to you in a short time．

However, some housewives don't always enjoy that way．They still like to walk around a shop or a supermarket on one hand, they suspect the reality of the goods on the screen, because they buy the things online only by eye not by ear or hand even or now; on the other hand, they think it is really a kind of relaxation to walk around the shop or the supermarket, and sometimes it is an interesting thing to bargain with the sellers．If they cut down lots of price, they will have a feeling of success．

1．People like to buy things through the Internet because _________．

A．The goods are at a low price                      B．the goods are at a high price．

C．it can bring people lots of conveniences      D．the goods are nice

2．People can get what they want through the Internet _________．

A．very slowly           B．very quickly          C．very expensive      D．very hard

3．The word "convenience" means _________ in Chinese．

A．金钱                      B．商品                       C．货物                      D．方便

4．Some housewives enjoy shopping in a shop or a supermarket because _________．

A．it's a kind of relaxation to walk around a shop or a supermarket

B．it's very interesting to bargain

C．people can get a feeling of success by cutting its price down

D．A, B and C

5．The best title of the passage is _________．

A．Shopping online

B．How people can go shopping online

C．The convenience of shopping online

D．Women like shopping online

It’s Tuesday afternoon, and I’m in Rheinburg, Germany, visiting the Extra Future Store. The “store of the future” is attracting a lot of attention these days– but not for it’s prices. Instead, people are coming from all over to experience a new way to shop.
The experience is less like shopping in a supermarket and more like playing some kind of high–tech game. It starts as I enter the store and choose a shopping cart(购物车). First, I swipe my store ID card through a computer on the cart. The computer’s screen comes on, a map of the store shows, and the journey begins.
As I shop, antennas(天线) around the store send information about different specials to the computer on my cart. Attracted by one of the ads, I choose a box of cheese. I hold up the box to the computer. It displays the price and also suggests that a certain type of bread would be good with it. The map on my chart shows me where to find the bread. It’s like the store is helping me to shop.
How does the store make this kind of shopping experience possible? The answer is radio frequency identification chip (or RFID射频识别). Each chip has a special number. Using an RFID reader on the computer, we can get information from a chip about the product(产品). RFID will help shoppers find the things in a store more quickly– products that are just right for them. In addition, people won’t have to wait in long lines to pay. The things in your cart will be read by the computer and the money will be paid by your store ID card automatically(自动地). So you can simply walk out of the store with your shopping bags.
Sounds good, right? Maybe you will experience the new shopping soon in your city.
【小题1】Why are so many people coming to the Extra Future Store?