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 US $ 11 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．You can also go shopping on the Internet for entertainment services and take part in on-line games．
Internet shopping offers a number of benefits for the shopper．The most important advantage is convenience．You can shop when you like as the on-line shops are open 24 hours a day and you don’t have to queue with other shoppers at the checkout counters．Secondly, it is easy to find what you are looking for on the Internet．Even out-of-print books may be ordered on line．Finally, it is often cheaper to buy goods through the Internet, and you can tell the shop exactly what you want．
The main disadvantage of Internet shopping is that you cannot actually see the products you are buying or check their quality．Also, many people enjoy shopping in the city and miss the opportunity to talk to friends．Some people are worried about paying for goods using credit cards, so Internet companies are now finding ways to make on-line payment safe．
Internet shopping is sure to become more and more popular in the years ahead CY．It promises to change the way we buy all kinds of things－from tonight’s dinner to a new car．
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The phrase “physical products” in the second paragraph means ________．
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things that can be seen or felt
B．
things useful for health care
C．
things that help you keep fit
D．
things connected with sports
(2)
The most important advantage about Internet shopping is ________．
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A．
the speed the goods are delivered at
B．
the reasonable price
C．
the quality of the goods
D．
the convenience it brings to you
(3)
In the passage, all the following disadvantages of Internet shopping are mentioned except that ________．
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customers cannot actually see the products they are buying
B．
customers cannot check the product’s quantity they are buying
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many people miss the opportunity to talk to their friends
D．
some people are worried about paying for goods using credit cards
(4)
The fifth paragraph is mainly about ________．
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A．
people’s enjoyment of a new way of shopping
B．
Internet companies’ finding of a new way for payment
C．
there being various problems with Internet shopping
Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms．
A growing number of schools across the U．S．are multimedia, history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画)of complex problems．
As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec．20, 2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科)classes．The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1, 100 of its students．
The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks, and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files．
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond thesefourwalls．”said larry Reiff, an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online．
But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically．
“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster of better by using these machines, ”said Larry Cuban, a retried professor of eduction at Staford University．“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids, but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning．”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications, including thousands with educational uses．
“If there isn't an application that does something I need , there will be sooner or later, ”said Mr．Reiff, who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays．
(1)
The program of using iPads in class is _________．
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A．
widely accepted by most schools in the United States
B．
only an experimental one carried out in some schools
C．
a compulsory one carried out by the U．S government
D．
encouraged and organized by the iPad company
(2)
The underlined part “these four walls” in paragraph 5 refers to _________．
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A．
school dormitory
B．
school campus
C．
teacher's office
D．
school classroom
(3)
We can use iPads to do the following at school except ________．
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A．
replace the school textbooks
B．
keep digital record of homework
C．
judge the teachers'teaching
D．
communicate with teachers
(4)
The school leaders tink highly of the iPad mainly because it is．
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A．
cool and interesting
B．
powerful and helpful
C．
multifunctional and expensive
D．
attractive and vivid
(5)
We can infer from the passage that _________．
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A．
most old teachers are against the pilot program
B．
students have achieved a lot after using iPads
C．
teaching will become less important with the help of ipads
D．
iPads will be used is more and more schools in the US
