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  3. The 21st century【C1】______a boom in online shopping for shopping on the internet can be accessible, economical and convenient, w

The 21st century【C1】______a boom in online shopping for shopping on the internet can be accessible, economical and convenient, w

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问题     The 21st century【C1】______a boom in online shopping for shopping on the internet can be accessible, economical and convenient, which dynamically changes the people’s life. With the time advances, shopping habits are evolved accordingly. When【C2】______the past, you will find the United States in the 20th century have experienced great changes in shopping habits. 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 lined on both sides with many【C3】______businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries.【C4】______, some shops offered【C5】______. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.【C6】______in the 1950s, a change began to【C7】______. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street【C8】______too few parking places were【C9】______shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces【C10】______the city limits. Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got【C11】______the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls,【C12】______as a collection of small new stores【C13】______crowded city centers. 【C14】______by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from【C15】______areas to outlying malls. And the growing【C16】______of shopping centers led【C17】______to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.【C18】______the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the【C19】______of one-stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks,【C20】______benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment. With the diversities of shopping habits, people’s behaviors presented mirror changes of the times in miniature.
【C15】
选项 A、inner
B、central
C、shopping
D、downtown
答案D
解析 句意理解。从本句中“from——areas to outlying malls”可知，所填词语应与outlying是反义词。inner意为“内部的，核心的”，central意为“中心的”，这两个词使用时应该具有其限定范围，而该句中缺乏限定词。downtown意为“市区”，符合句意。该句意为“顾客从市区被吸引到城市以外的商业中心去购物”。
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