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[单项选择]Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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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
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on both sides with many
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businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries.
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, some shops offered
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. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.
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in the 1950s, a change began to
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. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street
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too few parking places were
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shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces
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the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed and open space is what they got
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the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather malls,
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as a collection of small new stores
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crowded city centres.
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by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from
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areas to outlying malls. And the growing
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of shopping centres led
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to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.
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the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the
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of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks,
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benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.
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B. Early
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D. Earlier