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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. | ||||
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The party began shortly after Mr. Wood, who lived in the flat below, signed (叹息) to himself as he heard excited voices and the noisy music. Luckily he had ___1___ some work home from the office, ___2___ he kept himself busy for a couple of hours, thus managing to pay no attention to the noise ___3___ . But by eleven o'clock he felt ___4___ and was ready to go to bed, though from his earlier experience he knew it was ___5___ trying to get to sleep. He undressed and lay for a while on the bed, trying to read, but he___6___ himself reading the same page over and over again. He then turned off the light and ___7___ his head in the pillow(枕头). But ___8___ he could not shut off the ___9___ ,finally after ___10____ seemed hours his___11___ was gone. He jumped out of bed, __12__ some clothing, marched ___13___ up the stairs and walked into his neighbor's flat. The owner of the flat, who ___14___ him in his dressing gown(睡衣) came ___15___ the room and__16___ Mr. Wood could say anything, cried "My dear fellow, come and ___17___. I know our parties ____18___ you. I meant to send you ___19___." Mr. Wood's anger disappeared then and there. He said "I'd better go and get __20_." Minutes later, he returned properly dressed, only tofind that the party was nearly over. | ||||
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