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People in China have been paying cash for things for thousands of years, long 【小题1】 other civilizations. Now, increasingly, they’re paying with their cellphones. Chinese consumers are basically jumping across plastic, and going straight from cash to mobile payments. Chinese spent $5.5 trillion through mobile payment platforms last year, about 50 times 【小题2】 amount in the U. S. , according to reports. Nowhere 【小题3】 (be) the cashless trend more obvious than in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, which is home to Alibaba, the world’s 【小题4】(large) online shopping platform. Its mobile payment app, Alipay, and WeChat Pay, which belongs to the country’s leading social messaging platform, together hold a commanding 90 percent of the market, leaving Apple Pay struggling to make inroads. I recently spent a day in Hangzhou to see 【小题5】 easy it was to go cashless, and 【小题6】 (amaze) I found it somewhat ahead of other 【小题7】 (city), including Beijing. I rode buses and subways, which all accept Alipay. I even listened to the mournful tunes of a woman 【小题8】 (perform) music on the street for change-or for a scan of a QR code(二维码)【小题9】(place) beside the change box. Over a bowl of noodles, a restaurateur told me that about half of his customers pay for 【小题10】 (they) meals with cellphones, and that he uses his to pay most of the time too. “I don’t have to worry about getting counterfeit money, or having to make change, ” he explained.