本文節錄自貝塔語言出版《英文寫作高分指引》

Shopping at Stores vs. Shopping Online

（引言☛）Due to its convenience, shopping online has become a fad. With a single click, an order is done, and your products will be in your hand in just one or two days. However, quite a few people still insist one shopping on foot, walking in and out of one store after another and carrying bags and bags of products they have bought. It seems that the convenience of online shopping does not dispel the doubts of some traditional consumers. （主題句☛）The efficiency of online shopping appears quite satisfying, but the potential risks of buying unsuitable things and revealing personal information send many skeptical shoppers into real stores. （點一：網路購物的優點；逛街購物的缺點☛）On the one hand, shopping online helps eliminate the effort of traveling to stores. In addition, without physical shop fronts, online stores can offer lower prices than real stores because of savings in rent. （點二：實體店面購物的優點；網路購物的缺點☛）On the other hand, you lose the ability to try out the things you buy. For instance, the size and color of the shirts you receive by mail may not live up to your expectations, but this doesn’t happen when you shop at a real store. Moreover, in a real store, your payment can be made by cash, debit card, or check. Unfortunately, credit cards are usually the only option when you shop online. As a result, your credit card number and personal information may be at the risk of being stolen by hackers during the transaction. （結論：提供解決兩者缺點的建議☛）If you are worried about anything like this happening to you, choose an online store with a good reputation and make sure it has a good return policy and protects your privacy. Otherwise, get yourself up and shop on foot. Besides, doing so is also good exercise.

範文翻譯：店裡購物 vs 網路購物

網路的便利性使上網購物變成了一股風潮。只要滑鼠輕輕一點，一筆交易就完成，而且只要一到兩天的時間，商品就會送到你的手上。然而，不少的民眾仍然堅持逛街購物，穿梭在一間一間的店面，提著大包小包買來的東西。這樣看起來，網路購物的便利性，似乎並沒有消弭一些傳統消費者的疑慮。網路的便利性固然令人滿意，但是買到不適用的東西抑或是洩漏個人資料的危機，仍然讓一些有疑慮的消費者寧可在實體店面消費。一方面，網路確實可以省下買東西的舟車勞頓。而因為沒有實體店面所省下的租金，也讓網路業者可以提供比起在實體店面更低廉的價格。但另一方面，你卻喪失了直接試用商品的機會。舉例來說，你收到的郵寄襯衫，顏色或是尺寸可能跟你預期的有落差。這種情況就不會發生在實體店面。此外，在實體店面，你可以選擇以現金、金融信用卡或是支票付帳，但網路購物，信用卡通常是唯一選擇，因此在網路交易過程中，你的信用卡卡號和你個人資料就有可能被駭客盜取。如果你擔心類似的事情發生在你身上，最好選擇一個具有良好商譽的網路賣家，並確定他們會提供比較好的退貨機制和個人隱私的保護。否則，就快快起身，走路逛街去。此外，逛街購物也是一項不錯的運動。