In the United States, the biggest change in spending has been in the amount spent on food, which has decreased from 46% of the total family budget in 1901 to 19% of present day totals. This is due to the fact that people are now able to buy more and better foods at lower prices. As a result of the growth in fast food restaurants (for example, McDonald’s or KFC), more people are also eating out. Thus about 30% of today’s food budget goes on meals eaten outside the home while a hundred years ago it was only 3%.
At the beginning of the 20th century, few people owned their homes (only around 19% of working families) or cars (at about ＄ 1,000 per ear this was well above the average family income of ＄ 650 per year), as most people were unable to borrow money. But there was a rapid rise in both home and car ownership during the mid-1900s.
Free time increased considerably following the shortening of the working week, i.e. from six days to five, and from 10 hou
A. Shopping.
B. Family gatherings.
C. Traveling.
D. Reading.
In the United States, the biggest change in spending has been in the amount spent on food, which has decreased from 46% of the total family budget in 1901 to 19% of present day totals. This is due to the fact that people are now able to buy more and better foods at lower prices. As a result of the growth in fast food restaurants (for example, McDonald’s or KFC), more people are also eating out. Thus about 30% of today’s food budget goes on meals eaten outside the home while a hundred years ago it was only 3%.
At the beginning of the 20th century, few people owned their homes (only around 19% of working families) or cars (at about ＄ 1,000 per ear this was well above the average family income of ＄ 650 per year), as most people were unable to borrow money. But there was a rapid rise in both home and car ownership during the mid-1900s.
Free time increased considerably following the shortening of the working week, i.e. from six days to five, and from 10 hou
A. Increase in family income.
B. Changes in family planning.
C. Changing patterns in spending.
D. Decrease in food demand.
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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 (31) on both sides with many
various businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of
merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. (32) ,
some shops offered (33) . These shops included drugstores,
restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. (34)
in the 1950s, a change began to (35) . Too many
automobiles had crowded into Main Street (36) too few parking
places were available to shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants
began to look with interest at the open spaces (37) the city
limits. Open space is what the A. built B. designed C. intented D. lined 我来回答: 提交
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