Most people in the world like to enjoy nature. Travel is one of the most popular ways. Nowadays modern transportation can take people everywhere. But people who lived before the 1880s probably would not travel very far. They would not have time to travel far from their work. Anyone who travelled
36 would usually walk or ride a horse. But in Germany a man named Karl Benz had an idea that
37 the world in a dramatic way. In 1885, he made
38 . His car had three wheels,
39 most cars today. The car could only go
40 16 kilometres an hour.
At around the same time, the man
41 his first car in Detroit, America is called Henry Ford. Detroit is now still famous all over the world as the centre of American car-making.
Cars were very few and only
42 people could buy them.
43 , in England cars were thought to be
44 at that time, so for a few years someone
45 walk in front of every car
46 a red flag! This was to make sure that the car did not go too fast and hurt 47 .
In the 1910s, Henry Ford had
48 a better kind of car called the Model T Ford and he built a 49 where the cars could be made
50 . In this way the car could be made
51 and the cost was less and more and more people could
52 them. But there was still a problem
53 all the cars were black. That was because it was
54 to produce cars that were all the same color. Now, of course, you can buy cars in all
55 .
| 小题1: | | A．by air | B．by sea | C．on foot | D．on land |
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| 小题2: | | A．discovered | B．found | C．changed | D．invented |
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| 小题3: | | A．a first car | B．the first car | C．his first wheel | D．a first wheel |
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| 小题4: | | A．unlike | B．like | C．as if | D．as |
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| 小题5: | | A．with a speed of | B．at a speed of | C．at speed of | D．for a speed of |
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| 小题6: | | A．making | B．made | C．makes | D．having made |
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| 小题7: | | A．busy | B．rich | C．strong | D．kind |
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| 小题8: | | A．However | B．But | C．While | D．Therefore |
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| 小题9: | | A．interesting | B．unusual | C．dangerous | D．wonderful |
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| 小题10: | | A．wanted to | B．was forced to | C．must | D．would |
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| 小题11: | | A．waved | B．to wave | C．waving | D．wave |
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| 小题12: | | A．anyone | B．someone | C．everyone | D．no one |
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| 小题13: | | A．sold | B．discovered | C．found | D．produced |
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| 小题14: | | A．store | B．market | C．museum | D．factory |
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| 小题15: | | A．with machine | B．by machines | C．by hand | D．using hands |
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| 小题16: | | A．quickly | B．slowly | C．quitely | D．quietly |
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| 小题19: | | A．cheap | B．more cheap | C．cheaper | D．much cheap |
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| 小题20: | | A．kinds | B．shapes | C．colors | D．sizes |
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