III. Cloze Test
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each
blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose
the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark your answer on
the answer sheet
Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in
the last quarter of the 20th
century. 41 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 various businesses.
Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of
merchandise: clothing, furniture,
hardware, groceries. .42 , some shops offered services. These
shops included drugstores,
restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.
But in the 1950s, a change
began to 43 . Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street
while too few parking
places were 44 shoppers. Because the streets were crowded,
merchants began to look with
interest at the open spaces 45 the city limits. Open space is
what their car driving customers
needed. And open space is what they got when the first shopping
centre was built. Shopping
centres, or rather malls, 46 as a collection of small new
stores away from crowded city
centres. 47 by hundreds of free parking space, customers were
drawn away from downtown