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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 perso

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问题     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 why 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.
"A nation on wheels" in the second paragraph means that________.
选项 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 depends on car industry for its development
答案C
解析 词语理解题。根据第二段最后三句“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.”可知，Henry Ford或许没有预料到小汽车将给美国文化带来多大变化，小汽车使得美国成为它现在的样子，让美国成为“车轮上的国家”。由此可推知，a nation on wheels在此处意为“车轮上的国家”，表示小汽车在美国人生活中占据了重要的位置。故选C。
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