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Прочитайте и перескажите текст: 1. In America: Shopping Madness Apart from working, sleeping, watching TV Americans devote more time to shopping than to any other pastime. Indeed, shopping is now the number one holiday activity of Americans. People actually plan their vacation around shopping trips. Hundreds of thousands people a year travel to Niagara Falls, it seems, not to see the falls but to wander through its two mega-malls. Soon holidaymakers will be able to travel to the Grand Canyon and see it either, for there are plans, if you can believe it, to build a 450,000-square-foot shopping centre by its main entrance. As for me, I cannot go shopping in America without wanting either to burst into tears or kill someone. For all its science, you see, shopping in this country is no longer fun, if it ever was. A big part of the problem is the stores. They come in three types. First, there are the stores where you can never find anyone to help you. Then there are the stores where you don’t want any help, but you are pestered by a persistent sales assistant, probably working on commission. Finally, there are the stores where, when you ask where anything is, the answer is always “Aisle seven. ” I don’t know why, but that is what they always tell you. “Where’s pet food?” you ask. “Aisle seven.” “Where’s menswear?” “Aisle seven.” “Where’s aisle six?” “Aisle seven.” America is the shopping paradise. My point is that there is almost nothing you cannot buy in this remarkable country. Of course, shopping is the national sport in America.
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