How do you usually buy what you need, shopping on line or going out to shop in person? With the help of the Internet, shopping is ___26___(easy) than before. We can just click our mouse to choose the items we like, pay for them online, and the shopping ___27___(finish). It is easy and quick. It helps save money, too. We can save thousands a year if we compare the prices of similar items before deciding ___28___ to buy.

However, there are always traps in shopping online. If we are ___29___(care), we may get into trouble. For example, we may find the color of the item different from ___30___ in the picture online. Sometimes, the size of the item we receive can be too big ___31___ too small. ___32___(avoid) such troubles, we should compare similar items on different online stores and pay more attention to what other customers say. From their comments, we can know better ___33___ an item’s color, size as well as ___34___ shortcomings. In this way we increase our chance of buying ___35___ more satisfactory item.

My daughter’s 7^th birthday was April 22. As it was Monday, we preferred to celebrate it ___11___, i.e. on Saturday, April 20. This was easier for me as I’m ___12___ on Saturdays. On Friday the entire family was busy packing the ___13___ and putting funny pins on them. I promised my little princess that I would wake her up early in the morning and give out the presents to her ___14___.

I woke up at 07:30. After I took a bath, I planned to wake her up. But as I came out from the ___15___, I realized that an earthquake struck. I ___16___ to wake my husband up and asked him to carry our daughter and ran out of our house. We were ___17___ our house moving from side to side from outside. It lasted for just 3 minutes, but tiles(瓦片) came down, and some narrow gaps appeared on the ___18___.

Nevertheless, as we had planned, I went to my daughter’s school at 9:00, but no one was there except the teacher who ___19___ us to get back to our house as ___20___ might come soon. I was shocked, and drove my car home. On the way home I heard a police cry out loud, “Stay ___21___, no tsunami, it’s only issue!”

Arriving at my house, I was wondering about the presents: to whom we should ___22___? After some discussion, we decided to give them to the children in ___23___. Entering the hospital, I was shocked to find thousands of people bleeding and lying outside the rooms. A boy came up with a ___24___ on his head. He stared at me with his questioning eyes as if he wanted to say, “Could I have one?” ___25___ I handed over one present to him. I can’t ever forget his shining eyes when he received the gift!

11．A．earlier                 B．later                    C．better                  D．quicker

12．A．busy        B．free                          C．sick                    D．slow

13．A．presents              B．bricks                 C．bags                   D．medicine

14．A．teachers              B．patients      C．classmates               D．doctors

15．A．house                  B．bedroom              C．hospital               D．bathroom

16．A．decided               B．promised            C．screamed            D．stared

17．A．watching             B．leaving                C．entering               D．striking

18．A．ceiling      B．car          C．window                         D．wall

19．A．drove                  B．warned                C．taught                 D．preferred

20．A．earthquake           B．tsunami               C．police                  D．students

21．A．busy                   B．awake                 C．alarmed               D．calm

22．A．move                  B．deliver                 C．drive                   D．pack

23．A．hospital               B．school                 C．car                     D．office

24．A．present                B．tile                      C．bandage              D．question

25．A．Unwillingly  B．Quickly                      C．Easily                  D．Sadly

 I’m so busy today that I can’t __________ the house.

  A. help cleaning      B. help cleaned        C. help to clean     D. helped clean

 I met my old friend ____________ on my way home from school.

  A. by chance         B. on accident         C. by sudden     D. on occasion

 ___________ she will go or not doesn’t matter much.

  A. When             B. That            C. If              D. Whether

 The reason __________ she gave for not finishing the homework is that she was ill.

  A. why              B. what             C. that           D. for  

 Each of the students, working hard at his or her lessons, __________ to go to university.

  A. hope             B. hopes             C. hoping        D. to hope

 We hope that we can _________ the world ________ wars, killers and everything else that is bad.

A．get rid of; by           B．be rid of; by               C．rid; of        D．get rid; of

 With the electricity ___________, all the machines stopped.

A. cut off            B. was cut off         C. cut down      D. was cut down

 “Where have you been? We thought that you were lost!” mother said angrily, _________ to Lily.

A. pointing           B. to point           C. having pointed      D. pointed