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