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课时知能训练 Ⅰ.完形填空 Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.Early in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street.Main Street was always in the heart of a town.This street was __1__on both sides with many __2__ businesses.Here，shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise：clothing，furniture，hardware，groceries.__3__，some shops offered __4__.These shops included drugstores，restaurants，shoerepair stores，and barber or hairdressing shops.__5__ in the 1950s，a change began to __6__.Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were __7__ shoppers.Because the streets were crowded，merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces __8__the city limits.Open space is what their cardriving customers needed. And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built.Shopping centres，or rather malls，__9__ as a collection of small new stores __10__crowded city centres.__11__ by hundreds of free parking space，customers were drawn away from __12__ areas to outlying malls.And the growing __13__ of shopping centres led __14__to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.By the late 1970s，many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves.In addition to providing the __15__ of one stop shopping，malls were transformed into landscaped parks，with benches，fountains，and outdoor entertainment. | 
