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  3. 　　Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter

　　Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter

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问题 　　Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.As early as 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 【C1】__________（line）on both sides with many 【C2】__________（vary）businesses.Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries.In addition, some shops offered medical care.These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.But in the 1950s, a change began to take 【C3】__________.Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were available【C4】__________ shoppers.Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces outside the city limits.Open space is what their car-driving customers needed.And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built.Shopping centres, or rather malls, started as a 【C5】 co__________of small new stores away from crowded city centres.【C6】At__________ by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from downtown areas to outlying malls.And the 【C7】__________（grow）popularity of shopping centres led in turn to the building of【C8】__________（big）and better stocked stores.By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves.In addition to providing the 【C9】__________ （convenient）of one stop shopping, malls were transformed 【C10】__________ landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment. [br] 【C6】
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答案 Attracted
解析 句意:被数百个免费停车 位吸引,顾客从市区被引诱到城市以外的商业中心。空缺处所填单词可在后文找到相应表达,后文中drawn（原形为draw）有“吸引”的意思。结合提示字母，可推知，空缺处填入Attracted。 参赛者应注意句子开头单词首字母须大写。
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