| The shopping centre is very big. There
are all kinds of things in it. Every day a lot of people, men and women, old and
young, go there to buy things. It opens at 8:00 in the morning and closes at
11:00 in the evening. This morning Tom is helping his mother buy things. He has a shopping list in his hand. They are looking for the things on the shopping list. After they stay in the shopping centre for about two hours, they get all the things that they need. |
| The Southdale shopping centre in
Minnesota has an atrium, a food court, fountains and acres of parking. Its shops
include a Dairy Queen, a Victoria’s Secret and a purveyor of comic T-shirts. It
may not seem like a landmark, as important to architectural history as the
Louvre or New York’s Woolworth Building. But it is. "oh, my god!" chimes a group
of teenage girls, on learning that they are standing in the world’s first true
shopping mall. "That is the coolest thing anybody has said to us all day. "
In the past half century Southdale and its many imitators have transformed shopping habits, urban economies and teenage speech. America now has some 1,100 enclosed shopping malls, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres. Clones have appeared from Chennai to Martinique. Yet the mall’s story is far from triumphal. Inv A. Southdale will be closed soon. B. Shopping malls are flourishing all over the world. C. After long time of prosperity, shopping malls in US is gradually declining. D. Shopping mall is an American creation. 我来回答: 提交
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