Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. （1） 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） on both sides with many （3） businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. （4）,some shops offered （5） .These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. （6） in the 1950s, a change began to （7） .Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street （8） too few parking places were （9） shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces （10） the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed. And open space is what they got （11） the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather malls, （12） as a collection of small new stores （13） crowded city centres. 14 by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from （14） areas to outlying malls. And the growing （16） of shopping centres led （17） to the building of bigger and betterstocked stores. （18） the late 1970s,many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the （19） of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, （20）benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment. 请在12处填上正确答案（）
第1题：
—I always look out before crossing the street.
—You are right. You can't be too______.
A. nervous
B. careful
C. careless
D. hurried
14．答案为B 参考译文；——我在过街前总是要留神四处看一下。——你这样做是正确的，要尽可能小心。短语can't be too careful意思是as careful as possible“尽可能小心”。
第2题：
President of the United States lives in 10 Downing Street.()
第3题：
A、a tree
B、a car
C、a ball
D、puberty
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As the twentieth century began, the importance of formal education in the United States increased. The frontier had mostly disappeared and by 1910 most Americans lived in towns and cities. Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life combined with a new emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important for economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schools were viewed as the most important means of integrating immigrants in to American society.
The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year was greatly lengthened. Kindergartens, vacation schools, extracurricular activities, and vocational education and counseling extended the influence of public schools over the lives of students, many of whom in the larger industrial cities were the children of immigrants. Classes for adult immigrants were sponsored by public schools, corporations, Unions, churches, and other agencies.
Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were one such population. Schools tried to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in the urban industrial economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate for women was the home.
Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women. American education gave homemaking a new definition. In preindustrial economies, homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home, in the highly industrialized early twentieth-century, United States. However, overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as a consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained women to be consumer homemakers cooking, shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic necessity demanded, as employees in the homes of others. Subsequent reforms have made these notions seem quite out-of-date.
36. It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that one important factor in the increasing importance of education in the United States was ______.
A) the growing number of schools in frontier communities
B) an increase in the number of trained teachers
C) the expanding economic problems of schools
D) the increased urbanization of the entire country
第6题：
A、has been
B、had been
C、having been
D、being
第7题：
A. ran after
B. ran against
C. ran into
D. ran away
第8题：
A.coping
B.cope
C.coped
D.cope with
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