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It’s no accident that McDonald’s opened its first drive-through in Dongguan last December. Local newspapers have (47) that one in three Dongguan households owns an automobile, making it one of the highest rates in China.
The new McDonald’s, which also has a sit-down restaurant, (48) the corner of a suburban street of salmon-pink apartments and low-rise malls, and there’s not an iron bicycle in sight.
In short, it’s a/an (49) locale(场所) for the all-American meal in your ear. McDonald’s calls it a natural (50) to the "fast-paced lives" of many Chinese who they hope will (51) this "next generation" of restaurants. A second drive-through has opened this year in Shanghai, and more are (52) .
So far, the signs are (53) . Around 400 cars a day are using the drive-through in Dongguan, a McDonald’s manager tells me, and the (54) of eating on the go has caught on. Workers are no longer posted at the entrance to guide customers through. At (55) hours, meals are delivered in two minutes.
What do the local people think about this American custom Convenient. Quick. Modem. Inside the restaurant, there’s plenty of praise for the drive-thru and the promise of convenience and (56) Some customers say they pick up food to bring back to their workplace, not to eat in the car, though they have no objections to doing so, if they’re busy.
A) response I) disappointing
B) concept J) lies
C) efficiency K) abandoned
D) embrace L) complain
E) relief M) promised
F) encouraging N) ideal
G) estimated O) occupies
H) peak