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The First Road Trip One morning in August, 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen and Richard, woke up early. Thev got dr

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问题     The First Road Trip
    One morning in August, 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons, Eugen and Richard, woke up early. Thev got dressed very【1】, so as not to waken the head of the family, Karl Benz. They left a note that said, "We are going to visit Grandma." They crept out to Mr. Benz’s【2】, opened the door, and pushed out a three-wheeled vehicle. It was the fruit of Mr. Benz’s long and hard work —the first engine car.
    Imagine it: a wooden construction【3】similar to a horse carriage than to the cars we have now: no roof, no hood,【4】wheels in the back but only one wheel in the front, a kind of handle【5】a steering wheel, leather-covered seats, and, the most important part, a 2.5 horsepower single-cylinder four-stroke engine.
    The car that Mrs. Benz and her sons rolled out of the workshop had gone【6】a great deal of development【7】its registration two years before,【8】Mr. Benz felt it needed even more work and improvement. He believed that【9】people would not trust such a new thing enough to be willing to buy it, and so it seemed to him that the prospects for any success on the market were not good. In 【10】. his loving and energetic wife believed immensely in his abilities, and was more than certain that, the fruit was ripe enough to be picked. Her plan was to make a long-distance journey in her husband’s invention, which would persuade everyone of the benefits and reliability of the new "horseless carriage".
选项 A、because
B、from
C、while
D、since
答案D
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