Although Internet shopping is (1) ………………………. more and more popular, you can’t beat the real thing. People love meeting their friends, going to shops, (2) ……………………….. on clothes and looking (3) ……………………….. bargains. There are all kinds of different places to go shopping, but (4) ……………………….. people like to go to shopping centers where everything is in one place. The first shopping center (5) ……………………….. opened in the US in 1922 and then, in the 1980s, giant megamalls appeared. The West Edmonton Mall in Canada had more than 800 shops, a hotel, (6) ……………………….. amusement park, a miniature-golf course, a zoo and a 134-metre-long lake. Today, the Golden Resources Shopping Mall in Beijing is the largest shopping center in (7) ……………………….. world. It (8) ……………………….. around 1,000 shops, hundreds of restaurants, children’s playgrounds and a skating rink, and it (9) ……………………….. at least two days to explore. So (10) ……………………….. can you buy there? The answer is ‘almost anything’!