题目内容
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Do you know how important cars are in people’s life in the United States? _____21______ a car, most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor, he doesn’t really feel poor when he has a car.
There are three reasons _____22______ the car has become so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a large one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and _____23______ (cheap) form of transportation.
The second reason is _____24______ the United States has never really developed _____25______ efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Though there is a good system of air service(航空服务), it is so expensive that it can’t _____26______ (use) often.
Now the third reason, and also the most important_____27______---the American spirit of independence. Americans don’t like to wait for a bus_____28______ a train. A car gives them the freedom to schedule _____29______ own time.
The gas shortage(短缺) _____30______ (cause) a big problem for Americans since 1975. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas.
21. Without 22.why 23. cheapest 24. that 25. an
26. be used 27. one 28. or 29. their 30.has caused