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四、短文填空(本大题共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分)

阅读下面短文，并借助上下文补充所缺信息。每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相 符的单词。

Maybe more than any other people， Americans have come to depend ___1___ their cars. The family car has been a common thing ___2___ the early twentieth century and it has___3___Americans’ life .Many people have ___4___outside of the large cities to the suburbs . Some Americans ___5___ two hours a day or more in their cars going to work and going home again .Cars have become the means of transportation for most Americans for going shopping and going on holidays .Americans used to like big cars ,because gasoline (汽油) used not to be so ___6___.Recently , ___7___,the cost of gasoline has increased . ___8___ cars have become more popular. Also___9___cars have become popular .

Americans have bought large numbers of Japanese and German cars. They have bought cars ___10___ several other countries， too .

Answer 1