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[填空题] As recently as thirty years ago, many Americans believed that using credit was an unwise and (36) ________ way to pay for what they bought. Some even thought that owing money to a store or a credit company was something to be (37) ________ of. Good citizens, they believed, always bought what they wanted with real money and they paid the full price (38) ________.
Today, however, all that has changed. Credit, as some (39) ________ have noted, has become a way of life in the United States. More and more Americans now are depending on those small pieces of plastic, credit cards, to pay for large (40) ________ such as televisions, record-players or (41) ________. Many people today would consider it unusual not to use a credit card to pay for a costly (42) ________ dinner, a hotel room or an airline trip. And there are some (43) ________ in which Americans must have credit cards. If they want the temporary use of a car, for example, they first must give the car rental company th