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love of new places in your child this travel season. There are some wonderful products and media
available to help your kids get fired up about geography.
For the youngest ones, don't miss the adorable HuggAPlanet, Earth (peacetoys. com, $19. 95). It's
a soft, stuffed globe that's covered with a colorful map of Earth. Kids will eye it like a treasure, toss it
like a ball and hug it like a friend.
For toddlers, the nifty puzzle My Town ABC (Great American Puzzle Factory, ages 3 and up; $12)
helps teach the concept of place as it illustrates the relationship of one location to another. Also worth
looking at for younger kids is the very cool CDROM Tonka Town (Atari, ages 36; $19. 99), which lets
children steer their favorite giant trucks down some adventurous paths.
For the older kids, probably nothing beats Handling the Actual Map (ages 815；$12. 95) that your
family's using to get to your vacation destination. Whether you are traveling by car, bus, train or plane,
show the kids how to follow your route. Ask them to narrate the trip.
During your journey, consider weaving in a history lesson or two. Discuss how the famous explorers
used maps to chart their journeys. An excellent book is The Lewis & Clark Expedition (Williamson
Publishing, ages 912; $12. 95),which shows how the Corps of Discovery bravely pushed westward.
Love music and want to work it into your vacation in a meaningful, catchy way? Sample the delightful
video States and Capitals Songs (Educational Insights, ages 7 and up; $14. 95).
Or, if you want lots of laughs as you travel (and who wouldn't?), try Scrambled States of America (Gamewright, ages 8 and up; $11. 99). It's a fun game of observation and fast reflexes that sets players
scrambling to find.
B. exploring in the forests
C. buying a Mothers's Day gift
D. learning geography in class
B. some products and media mentioned can make the kids interested in geography.
C. don't lose HuggAPlanet, Earth when you have a vacation.
D. States and Capitals Songs is as expensive as Hangling the Actual Map.
B. States and Capitals Songs
C. The Lewis & Clark Expedition
D. My Town ABC
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor , he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.
Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn’t know how much the car was going to change American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.
There are three main reasons why the car became so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a big one and Americans like to move around it. The car makes the travel the most comfortable and cheapest. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed a practical and cheap public travel system. Long distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Now there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used often.
The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don’t like waiting for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to follow an exact timetable. A car gives them the freedom to plan their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
Less oil has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real answer will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much oil.
【小题1】We can learn from this passage that Americans ______.
| A．spend a lot of money traveling by car | B．travel a lot in their cars |
| C．seldom travel by plane | D．use public traffic often |
| A．In the United States even the poor own cars. |
| B．In the United States all the poor have no cars. |
| C．When an American has a car, he will never be poor. |
| D．An American will feel poor unless he has a car. |
| A．Americans like to plan their own time |
| B．The United States does not have enough public transportation |
| C．Americans will not feel poor when they travel in their cars |
| D．Americans cannot move around without their own cars |
| A．everyone in the United States owns a car |
| B．the United States produces most of the cars in the world |
| C．cars play an important part in American’ life |
| D．the United States depend on car industry for its development |
Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor , he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.
Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn’t know how much the car was going to change American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.
There are three main reasons why the car became so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a big one and Americans like to move around it. The car makes the travel the most comfortable and cheapest. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed a practical and cheap public travel system. Long distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Now there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used often.
The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don’t like waiting for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to follow an exact timetable. A car gives them the freedom to plan their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
Less oil has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real answer will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much oil.
1.We can learn from this passage that Americans ______.
A．spend a lot of money traveling by car B．travel a lot in their cars
C．seldom travel by plane D．use public traffic often
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．In the United States even the poor own cars.
B．In the United States all the poor have no cars.
C．When an American has a car, he will never be poor.
D．An American will feel poor unless he has a car.
3.In the writer’s opinion, cars are popular in the United States mainly because ___.
A．Americans like to plan their own time
B．The United States does not have enough public transportation
C．Americans will not feel poor when they travel in their cars
D．Americans cannot move around without their own cars
4.“A nation on wheels” in the second paragraph means that _______.
A．everyone in the United States owns a car
B．the United States produces most of the cars in the world
C．cars play an important part in American’ life
D．the United States depend on car industry for its development
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Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor , he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.
Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn’t know how much the car was going to change American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.
There are three main reasons why the car became so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a big one and Americans like to move around it. The car makes the travel the most comfortable and cheapest. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed a practical and cheap public travel system. Long distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Now there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used often.
The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don’t like waiting for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to follow an exact timetable. A car gives them the freedom to plan their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
Less oil has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real answer will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much oil
- 1.
We can learn from this passage that Americans ______.
- A.spend a lot of money traveling by car
- B.travel a lot in their cars
- C.seldom travel by plane
- D.use public traffic often
- A.
- 2.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
- A.In the United States even the poor own cars
- B.In the United States all the poor have no cars
- C.When an American has a car, he will never be poor
- D.An American will feel poor unless he has a car
- A.
- 3.
In the writer’s opinion, cars are popular in the United States mainly because ______.
- A.Americans like to plan their own time
- B.The United States does not have enough public transportation
- C.Americans will not feel poor when they travel in their cars
- D.Americans cannot move around without their own cars
- A.
- 4.
“A nation on wheels” in the second paragraph means that ______.
- A.everyone in the United States owns a car
- B.the United States produces most of the cars in the world
- C.cars play an important part in American’ life
- D.the United States depend on car industry for its development
- A.
Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor , he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.
Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn’t know how much the car was going to change American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today.
There are three main reasons why the car became so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a big one and Americans like to move around it. The car makes the travel the most comfortable and cheapest. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed a practical and cheap public travel system. Long distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Now there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used often.
The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don’t like waiting for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to follow an exact timetable. A car gives them the freedom to plan their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
Less oil has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real answer will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much oil.
56. We can learn from this passage that Americans ______.
A. spend a lot of money traveling by car B. travel a lot in their cars
C. seldom travel by plane D. use public traffic often
57. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. In the United States even the poor own cars.
B. In the United States all the poor have no cars.
C. When an American has a car, he will never be poor.
D. An American will feel poor unless he has a car.
58. In the writer’s opinion, cars are popular in the United States mainly because ___.
A. Americans like to plan their own time
B. The United States does not have enough public transportation
C. Americans will not feel poor when they travel in their cars
D. Americans cannot move around without their own cars
59. “A nation on wheels” in the second paragraph means that _______.
A. everyone in the United States owns a car
B. the United States produces most of the cars in the world
C. cars play an important part in American’ life
D. the United States depend on car industry for its development
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