Complete the following passages with the words or phrases in the box/ Each can only be used once(将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词,每词只能填一次)

A. set off B. aware C. traditional D. grew up E. professional

Henry Ford is known as making cars. He was born in 1863 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family owned a farm . He worked on the farm when he was young, but later he was 1.that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked. then putting them back together again. He worked on watches a lot , and ended up helping many people fix their watches . In 1879, when he was 16 years old, he 2. for Detroit to start working with machines, though he came home and worked on the farm a little , too. Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888, and worked on a sawmill. He finally became an engineer. Ford worked for the Edison Illumination Company. Edison encouraged him to keep working on his plans for motor-powered horseless carriage(马车)which could take the place of the 3.one. Ford’s motor-powered horseless carriage was called the Quadricycle. He sold the Quadricycle and started his won company to continue his work making vehicles. He did not stay with the first company for many years, but started the 4. Ford Motor Company.

A. salaries B. no longer C. create D. wheels E. at a time

He spent many years developing cars, which were made only a few once. Ford was not the first person to 5. a car, but he was the one who began to make people easily use cars in the United States. His ‘Model T’ car, released in 1908, made many people want one. He needed to make a lot of cars very quickly. His company , Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an assembly line. The car would move through the line, and each worker had a job along the line. One worker might put on 6., while at a different spot on the line, another worker put on tires. Every Model T was painted black. The company could make many cars 7. this way. In addition to using the assembly line to produce cars, Ford was also known for paying his workers fair 8.. Henry Ford died in 1947, but his company is still around and making cars today.

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