(Now more and more people like shopping online, but is it good or bad? Here're a few different ideas. Let's take a look at them. )

Fred: I spend time on the Internet and buy many things online. I don't need to go out and wait for a long time. Also, I can always get the best things online. 

Dennis: I like shopping online a lot. I love to buy things on the Internet because people can send the products to me in a few days after I click the mouse on what I want. 

Anthea: Shopping online is a good way for us young people. We can save lots of time. When we buy anything online, we can compare different prices and features at the same time. 

Elihu: l like spending time going here and there in different shops and meeting different people, so I do very little online shopping. 

Harriet: 1 especially like shopping online, because it's much easier to choose my favourite things. Now I also have an online store called Millen to sell clothes. 

My name is Gina. I am from the UK. Now I study （学习） in a middle school in Beijing. Monday is very busy for me. I have Chinese at 8: 00 a.m. Chinese is my favorite subject. I think it is fun. My Chinese teacher, Mr. Li, always makes his class interesting. All the students like him very much. At 9: 00, I have math. I don't like math because it's very difficult. I have English at 10: 00. I think it is very useful and it's very easy for me. And at 12: 00, I have lunch at school. In the afternoon, I have two classes. At 2: 00, I have science. It is difficult but interesting. After that, I have music. It's relaxing. I like my music teacher, Miss White. She is very young and beautiful. She plays the piano （弹钢琴） well. At about 4:00, I leave （离开） school with my friends Lucy and Wendy. We go to different clubs （不同的俱乐部）. I'm in a basketball club. Basketball is my favorite sport. Lucy likes swimming （游泳） so she is in a swimming club. Wendy likes drawing so she is in an art club. Monday is busy but it is very interesting. I like it very much.

Jenny was a student in my class. She lived in a happy family. She had three sisters and she was the youngest, She seemed to be glued(粘合) to her mother's skirts. Her three older sisters took the bus to school every morning, but she was always driven to school by her mother. 

One Friday, Jenny's mother said to me, "My husband and I have to be away to Europe on business for two weeks. I am very worried about Jenny. She is so young and weak. Will you please help me look after her while we're away?"

As a mother of a kid, I knew how worried a mother would be if she was away from her child. "Don't worry! I'll try my best to take good care of her, "I said. I even volunteered to say that I would wait for Jenny at the school gate every morning to give her a familiar(熟悉的) face. 

I waited at the school gate to meet Jenny the next Monday morning. When the bus arrived, Jenny and her three sisters got off. I was surprised to see a happy girl, not a sad, crying girl. I called Jenny over to ask her how the bus ride was going. "Very interesting!" she said. "I always wanted to take a bus with my sisters, but Mum was always together with me. You see there isn't any baby in our family now. I can take a bus without Mum. I'm no longer a kid. "