Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each space
In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alaxander Stewart opened a business called the Marble dry goods Palace.
By [ 1 ] so, he gave the world something completely new- the department store.
Before this, no one [ 2 ] tried to bring togethersuch a wide range of goods [ 3 ] a single roof.
The business did very [ 4 ].
It expanded rapidly and soon had a [ 5 ] of two thousand.
For Stuard even that was not [ 6 ].
In 1862 he moved to an eight-storey building nearby, [ 7 ] he renamed A.T.Stuart’s Cast-Iron Palace.
It was, and for many years would [ 8 ], the largest shop in the world.
( From Cambridge FCE past papers)