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                                        Shop from Catalogs 

        Where do you go to shop? Supermarkets or department stores? In the United States people may do some other kinds of shopping.

        American people often shop from catalogs. There are special catalogs for almost every need—including clothing? furniture,health and beauty products,and things for the kitchen. When people decide to buy something from a catalog,they just order it and it is delivered to them. People order about 40% of their music ? for example ? from music catalogs.

        Television shopping began in 1986. About 5% to 8% of the American people now shop by television. There are many TV shopping channels in the USA. People say that TV shopping is easier than physically shopping in person. How do they buy things by TV? They just turn on a TV shopping channel,find something they want,make a telephone call and pay for it by credit card. TV shopping channels are on late at night,so people can shop at any time.

        Now a new kind of shopping has found its way into American families—computer shopping. About 37% of American families now have computers and are shopping by computer  (or shopping online) . It is interesting to more and more people every day. Already,people can use their computers to order different things,such as computer products,flowers,food,T-shirts? and so on. Computer shopping is even better than TV shopping because people can not only shop for anything at any time,but also anywhere in the world.

fell whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) according to the passage.

1. In the US people only do shopping in supermarkets or department stores.

2. Computer shopping is a new kind of shopping in the US.

3. TV shopping channels are on early in the morning or late in the evening.

4. People can shop for anything at any time anywhere in the world by computer shopping.

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