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Read the text and for questions 1-6 choose the correct answer.

Virtual stores

A trip to the supermarket can be quite a headache. You have to push a heavy cart around, stand in a long queue to pay, and then empty your cart at the cash register. Finally, you have to load everything back into your cart and push it to your car. Now, imagine you are walking around a supermarket and instead of shelves filled with products there are pictures of products on the walls. You find the shampoo you want, take out your smart phone and scan the electronic tag. The shampoo is now in your online shopping cart in your smart phone with a list of the other products you scanned. Once you finish shopping, you simply use your phone to pay online with a credit card and then go home. The supermarket later delivers your shopping right to your door. This shopping experience is called virtual shopping and it’s the way of the future. Virtual supermarkets are opening in many cities around the world. Some virtual supermarkets are not even in regular shopping centres but rather in underground stations, on train platforms, and now even in airports. Travellers can save time by doing their shopping while they wait for their train.
Supermarkets no longer have to stock different products, saving money and energy. Other shops are now developing virtual stores for their products too.

You don’t have to do it at the supermarket.                                      [empty your cart at the cash register, buy a heavy cart, stand in a long queue]

In a virtual supermarket you                                          [choose only pictures not real goods, scan the electronic tag, with the help of your smartphone you tak]

Later the supermarket                                         [delivers your shopping, put your shopping in front of your door, ask you to take your shopping]

Virtual supermarkets                             [will be in the future, opened many years ago, are opening in many cities]

The text is about                [shopping rules, virtual shops, supermarkets]

Read the text. Are the sentences true (T) or falce (F).

Virtual stores

A trip to the supermarket can be quite a headache. You have to push a heavy cart around, stand in a long queue to pay, and then empty your cart at the cash register. Finally, you have to load everything back into your cart and push it to your car. Now, imagine you are walking around a supermarket and instead of shelves filled with products there are pictures of products on the walls. You find the shampoo you want, take out your smart phone and scan the electronic tag. The shampoo is now in your online shopping cart in your smart phone with a list of the other products you scanned. Once you finish shopping, you simply use your phone to pay online with a credit card and then go home. The supermarket later delivers your shopping right to your door. This shopping experience is called virtual shopping and it’s the way of the future. Virtual supermarkets are opening in many cities around the world. Some virtual supermarkets are not even in regular shopping centres but rather in underground stations, on train platforms, and now even in airports. Travellers can save time by doing their shopping while they wait for their train.
Supermarkets no longer have to stock different products, saving money and energy. Other shops are now developing virtual stores for their products too.

You don't have to push a heavy cart, stand in a long line to pay, and then empty your cart at the checkout.       [True, False]

You find the soap you want, take out your smart phone and scan the electronic tag.       [True, False]

The shampoo is now in your online shopping cart in your smart phone with a list of the other products you scanned.       [True, False]

Virtual supermarkets are opening in some cities around the world.       [True, False]

Read the text. Match sentences 1-5 with gaps 1-5 in the text.

Alone at sea

On 29 January 1982, Steven Callahan left the Canary Islands in a small yacht. 1___________. But a week later, during an awful storm, something (probably a whale) hit the yacht and made a huge hole in it. 2________. He had to act quickly!

Steven got into an inflatable life raft and just had time to get a sleeping bag, a first-aid kit, some food, maps, and a torch from the yacht before it sank. He also managed to get a copy of a book called Sea Survival. 3___________. But he couldn't rescue the radio from the yacht.

4______________. His food ran out after a few days so he had to survive by catching sea-birds, fish, and flying fish. He drank rainwater which he caught in the raft.

After about two months at sea, the raft was 3,300 km from the place where the yacht sank. 5___________. But unfortunately they didn't see him. He was beginning to think that he might not survive. He was starving, exhausted, weak, and very thin.

Finally, after 76 days, some fishermen saw the sea-birds that were flying around the raft and took Steven to the island of Guadeloupe. After his terrifying experience, he was finally in the Caribbean!