2013高考英语（完形填空）倒计时冲刺50天（14）及答案
Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.Early 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__1__on both sides with many __2__businesses.Here，shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise：clothing，furniture，hardware，groceries.__3__，some shops offered __4__.These shops included drugstores，restaurants，shoerepair stores，and barber or hairdressing shops.__5__in the 1950s，a change began to __6__.Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were available to shoppers.Because the streets were crowded，merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces __7__ the city limits.Open space is what their cardriving customers needed.
And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built.Shopping centres，or rather malls，__8__as a collection of small new stores __9__crowded city centres.__10__by hundreds of free parking space，customers were drawn away from downtown areas to outlying malls.And the growing __11__of shopping centres led in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.By the late 1970s，many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves.In addition to providing the __12__of one stop shopping，malls were transformed into landscaped parks，with benches，fountains，and outdoor entertainment.
1．A.built B．Designed
C．intended D．Lined
2.A.varied B．Various
C．sorted D．mixedup
3.A.Apart from B．However
C．In addition D．As well
