完型填空:Shopping habits in the United States have
Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century.
1.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 2.lined on both sides with many 3.various. business. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandi: clothing, furniture, hardware, and groceries. 4.In addition, some shops offered 5.rvices. The shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.
6.But in the 1950s, a change began to 7.take place .Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street 8.while too few parking places were 9.available to shoppers. Becau the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces 10.outside
the city limits. Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got 11.when the first shopping center was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls, 12.started as a collection of small new stores 13.away from crowded city centers. 14.Attracted by hundreds of free parking places, customers were drawn away from 15.downtown areas to outlying malls. And the growing 16.popularity of shopping centers led 17.in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.
18.By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themlves. In addition to providing venience of one-step shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, 20.with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.
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6. B. Abruptly C. Contrarily D. But
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答案解析：
1.【答案】B
【解析】as early as 的意思为“同……一样早”, early 是副词，“早期”的意思，earlier
是比较级“较早”的意思。
2.【答案】D
【解析】本句的意思是“街道的两旁排列着很多各种各样的商店”，build 的意思是right是什么意思“建造，
修建”，design 的意思是“设计”，intend“意思是“打算”，line 是“沿……provoke排列”的意思。
3.【答案】B
【解析】varied 是“变化多端”的意思，various 2014北京高考英语为“各种各样的”，sorted 意为“分类的”，mixed up 意为“困惑的，迷惘的，不适应社会的”。本句意为“各种各样的商店”。
blade4.【答案】C
【解析】本句的意思是“除了各种各样的商店销售各种各样的商品之外，有些商店还提供服
务”，apart from 意为“除此之外”，后必须接名词或动名词，however 是连词“然而”的意
successful
思，in addition 可单独使用，意为“除此之外”，as well 用在句末。
5.【答案】D
【解析】medical care 意为“jaw crusher医疗护理”。food 是“食物”，cosmetic 是“化妆品”，rvice是“服务”，根据上题意思，rvice 一词放在这里最合适。
6.【答案】D
【解析】本句的意思是“在五十年代，情况发生了变化”，有转折的意思。suddenly 和abruptly
都是“突然”的意思，contrarily 指“相反地”，but 是“但是”的意思,表转折。
7.【答案】B
【解析】take place 只有主动语态，故可排除C，而begin to 后应接动词不定式，只有take
place“发生”可用。
8.【答案】A
【解析】此句中太多的汽车和太少的停车场有相对比较的意思，while 是连词，有“而，却”
的意思，表比较。yet“然而”，表转折，though“尽管，虽然”，表让步。
9.【答案】B
【解析】be available to sb.为固定搭配，意为“对某人来说可用的，可得到的”，本句意
为“顾客可用的停车场地”，故选B。
10.【答案】D
tornado 【解析】本句意为“商人们开始对城市界限以外的开阔地感兴趣”，out of 表示“……的外
面”而outside 指“超过某一个界限，范围等target lnk”。
