Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without cars most people feel that they are poor. And even though a person is poor, he doesn't really feel poor when he has a car.
Perhaps(可能) you have heard of Henry Ford. He first started making cars in large numbers. Perhaps he didn't know how much the car was going to be to American culture(文化). The car made the United States a nation on wheels(车轮). And it helped make the United States what it is now.
The car has become popular in the United States. The Americans like to move around in cars. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
【小题1】In the United States ____.

Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without cars most people feel that they are poor. And even though a person is poor, he doesn't really feel poor when he has a car.

Perhaps(可能) you have heard of Henry Ford. He first started making cars in large numbers. Perhaps he didn't know how much the car was going to be to American culture(文化). The car made the United States a nation on wheels(车轮). And it helped make the United States what it is now.

The car has become popular in the United States. The Americans like to move around in cars. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.

1.In the United States ____.

2.Who was Henry Ford? ____.

3.Henry Ford started making cars in large numbers because ____.

4.Which of the following do you think is true? ____.

A. There are too many people everywhere in the USA.  

B. There are a lot of cars everywhere in the USA . 

C. Car pollution(污染) is the biggest problem in the USA.  

D. Every family more or less has a car.

5.We can know from this passage(文章) that ____.

阅读理解

　　Cars are very important part of life in the United States. Without cars 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 perhaps didn't know how much the car was going to effect American culture. The car made the United States a country on wheels. And it helped to make the United States what it is now.

　　The car has become popular in the United States today. The country is a very large one and the Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.

1．In America ________.

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A．most people aren't rich enough to buy cars

B．only rich people like to buy cars

C．even the poor, if they have cars, will not feel they are really poor

D．everybody has a car

2．Why does the writer say that America is a country on wheel?

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A．Because cars play so important a part in America.

B．Because American cars are used all over the world.

C．Because America makes a lot of cars every year.

D．Because Americans all like cars.

3．The Americans like to move in cars, because ________.

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A．in America there are no buses and trains

B．there are no planes in America

C．cars in America are very nice

D．America is very large

4．Cars are poplar in America because ________.

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A．people don't have a lot of money to ravel by train or by plane

B．traveling with one's own car is comfortable

C．people don't have enough time to wait for buses

D．cars are very cheap, everyone wants to have one

5．According to the writer, the Americans are ________.

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阅读短文，根据要求完成下列各题。

Cars are important part of life in the USA．（1）Without cars most people feel that they are not rich enough． And even though a person doesn't have much money, he doesn't really feel that when he has a car．

Do you know anything about Henry Ford? He first started to make cars in large numbers．Maybe he didn't know how much the car was going to be to American culture．（文化）．The USA was made a country on wheels（轮子）by the car．（3）And it helped make the USA what it is now．

（4）车在美国变得相当普及 （5）Americans like to move around in cars． With a car people can go to any place even though they don't have a lot of money． Of course, if you don't have a car, you can still make easy trips because the traffic in the USA is convenient（方便）and comfortable．

1．把句子（1）改成含有if的从句______________．

2．Who first started to make cars in large numbers? ______________．

3．把第（3）句翻译成汉语。______________

4．将第（4）句翻译成英语______________．

5．就画线部分提问______________．