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完形填空Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.1.Earlyin the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town. This street was 2.lined on both sides with many 3.various. businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, and groceries. 4.In addition, some shops offered 5.services. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.6.But in the 1950s, a change began to7.take place .Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street 8.while too few parking places were9.availableto shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces 10.outside the city limits. Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got 11.when the first shopping center was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls,12.startedas a collection of small new stores 13.away from crowded city centers. 14.Attracted by hundreds of free parking places, customers were drawn away from15.downtownareas to outlying malls. And the growing 16.popularity of shopping centers led 17.in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.18.By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the 19.convenienceof one-step shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, 20.with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.阅读It was not yet eleven o’clock when a boat crossed the river with a single passenger who had obtained his transportation at that unusual hour by promising an extra fare.?While the youth stood on the landing-place searching in his pockets for money, the ferryman lifted a lantern, by the aid of which, together with the newly risen moon, he took a very accurate survey of the stranger’s figure. He was a young man of barely eighteen