根据下面资料，回答下列问题。
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 【A1】________ 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.【A2】________ in the 1950s, a change began to take place. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too 【A3】________ parking places were available to shoppers. 【A4】________ the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces outside the city limits. Open space was 【A5】________ 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. 【A6】________by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from 【A7】________ areas to outlying malls. And the growing popularity of shopping centers led in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. 【A8】________ the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to 【A9】________ the convenience of the stop shopping, malls were 【A10】________ into landscaped parks, with benches,fountains, and outdoor entertainment.
【A1】
考查形近词辨析。句意为“街道两边是各式各样的商店”。various意为“各种各样的”，符合句意。variation为名词，意为“变动，变化”；variety也 是名词，意为“多样，种类”；variant作名词，意为“变体”，作形容词。意为“不同的，有差异的”。故本题选A。
【A2】
考查逻辑关系。上文介绍的是20世纪初期主街道商店的情况，空格后面说“在20世纪50年代，情况开始发生变化”，前后存在转折关系．故选C。
【A3】
考查形容词辨析。句中的while表明句子前后的意思有转折，前半句意思是“太多的汽车涌入主街道”，后半句则是指可供顾客停车的地方太少。 little与few在修饰物时，都表示“很少的”，但little修饰不可数名词，few修饰可数名词。parking places为可数名词，所以用few修饰。
【A4】
考查逻辑关系。上半句说“街道拥挤不堪”，下半句说“商人们开始格外注意城区以外的开阔地”。上半句是原因，下半句是结果。故选D。
【A5】
考查关系词。句意为“开阔地是开车的顾客所需要的”。主句中缺少表语，从句中need后面缺少宾语，所以用关系代词what引导表语从句。下一句 也为此处提供了解题线索。
【A6】
考查非谓语动词。此处表示“顾客们受许多免费停车场的吸引”。动作attract与逻辑主语customers为动宾关系，所以用过去分词表被动，排除B、 C。本文整体时态为一般过去时。而being attached强调的是动作正在进行，排除D。过去分词短语“Attracted by…”在句中作状语，选A。
【A7】
考查上下文及句意理解。由上文“open spaces outside the city limits(城市界限之外的开阔地)”“away from crowded city centers(拥挤的城市中心之 外)”可知，商人们在城市中心之外建立了购物中心。受许多免费停车场的吸引，顾客们从市区被吸引到郊区的购物商场。downtown“市中心(的)”，符合 文意。
【A8】
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”。
【A9】
考查词的形式。句意为“除了提供停车的便利之外，购物中心也变成了景观公园”。 providing和provided分别是动词provide(提供)的现在分词和过 去分词。providence是名词，意为“天意；远见”。 in addition to“除……之外”，to为介词，后面要跟动词-ing形式，结合句意，故选B。
【A10】
考查动词辨析。transact“办理；交易；谈判”，transmit“传达；传染；传送”，transform“改变；转换”，transcribe“抄写；转录”。句意为“除了提供 停车购物的便利之外，购物中心也变成了景观公园，拥有座椅、喷泉和户外娱乐设施”。transform与into搭配，意为“转变成，变成”。故选C。