Shopping habits in the United Stares have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. Early in the 1900s most Ameri

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问题     Shopping habits in the United Stares 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 lined on both sides with【C1】________businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of goods: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. In addition, some shops offered service. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.【C2】________in the 1950s, a change began to take place. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too【C3】________parking places were available to shoppers.【C4】________the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces outside the city limits. Open space was【C5】________their car driving customers needed. And open space was what they got when the first shopping center was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls, started as a collection of small new stores away from crowded city centers.【C6】________by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from【C7】________areas to outlying malls. And the growing popularity of shopping centers led in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.【C8】________the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to【C9】________the convenience of the stop shopping, malls were【C10】________into landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.
【C8】

选项 A、At
B、By
C、To
D、In

答案B

解析 考查介词。句意为“到20世纪70年代后期,许多购物中心几乎发展成了小城市”。主句用了过去完成时,时间状语多用“by+过去的时间点”,意为“到……为止,在……之前”。
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