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尚辅网 尚辅网 大连理工大学出版社 大连理工大学出版社 尚辅网 尚辅网 Directions: Discuss with your partner about the strengths and drawbacks of the Internet and complete the chart. Strengths of the Internet Drawbacks of the Internet 尚辅网 Directions: Read and imitate the following material(s), then answer the given questions. Passage 1 Holiday Shopping on the Job? Call It “Cyber Monday” For Americans, the traditional season to buy winter holiday gifts begins on the last Friday in November. “Black Friday” is the name for the day just after Thanksgiving Day. But lately there is a term for another popular shopping day that follows Black Friday: “Cyber Monday”. The term Cyber Monday comes from an observation made by people who study the holiday buying season. That is, lots of people may have gone into stores over the Thanksgiving weekend to look for gifts. But many wait until they return to work on Monday to buy online. Many people have faster Internet connections on the computers in their workplaces than at home. An Internet research company, Comscore Networks, says Americans spent more than nine hundred million dollars online from Thanksgiving through Sunday. Then they spent four hundred eighty- five million dollars over the Internet on Monday. The company says both amounts were twenty-six percent higher than last year. What were the most popular sites for online shoppers? E-Bay is said to have had almost twelve million visitors on Monday. E-Bay is a site on which people sell goods to each other. Next werethe websites of Amazon and Wal-Mart Stores. 尚辅网 Directions: Read and imitate the following material(s), then answer the given questions. Passage 1 Consumer spending represents two-thirds of all economic activities in the United States. And about one-fourth of all personal spending takes place during the holiday season. There are gifts to buy for Christmas, Hanukkah and the African-American celebration of Kwanzaa. The day after Thanksgiving got the name Black Friday from the tradition of recording prof