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.
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