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　Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.

　　__1__ 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 __2__ on both sides with many __3__ businesses.

　　Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing,furniture,hardware,groceries.

　　__4__ ,some shops offered __5__ .

　　These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe?repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.

　　__6__ in the 1950s, a change began to __7__ .

　　Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street __8__ too few parking places were __9__ shoppers.

　　Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces __10__ the city limits.

　　Open space is what their car driving customers needed.And open space is what they got __11__ the first shopping centre was built.Shopping centres, or rather malls, __12__ as a collection of small new stores __13__ crowded city centres.

　　__14__ by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from __15__ areas to outlying malls.

　　And the growing __16__ of shopping centres led __17__ to the building of bigger and better?stocked stores. __18__ the late 1970s,many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves.

　　In addition to providing the __19__ of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, __20 __benches,fountains,and outdoor entertainment.