The car salesman took the customer for a drive in the new model in order to ______its impr
A.admit
B.reveal
C.demonstrate
D.indicate
A.admit
B.reveal
C.demonstrate
D.indicate
Why did the accident take place? Because ______.
A.the doctor drove badly
B.the car hit a tree
C.of the ice
D.the road was too bad
Bell won't drive us to the train station. He has ______ to take us all.
A.too small a car
B.a too small car
C.very small a car
D.such small a car
A、Because the car had remained idle for too long.
B、Because the young couple were not good at driving.
C、Because a wrong bolt was used.
D、Because a second-hand car goes wrong easily.
Ford's announcement of cutting up to 30, 000 jobs by 2012 indicates that Ford ______.
A.has the biggest health problem of the car industry
B.has made profits from its health-care legacy
C.has accumulated too heavy a health-care burden
D.owes a great deal of debt to its employees
The author decided to live a car-free life______.
A.after his car was damaged beyond repair
B.after he was hurt in a terrible car accident
C.because public transport was easily accessible
D.because the traffic jam was too much for him
Mr. Green asked to be taken to the police station because he ______.
A. didn't like to give his name and address to the policeman
B. wanted to get help and tell the truth there
C. didn't like to talk too much with the policeman
D. wanted to leave the man in his car and let him go
Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large【22】He probably didn't know how much the car was going to【23】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 the car【24】so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides【25】comfortable and cheapest form. of all the means of transportation. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.
The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States has never really【26】an efficient and inexpensive form. of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air service【27】by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently.
The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is【28】really made cars popular. Americans don't like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don't like to have to【29】an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. And this is【30】that Americans want most to have.
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His purpose is settled and decided. He knows what he wants and he just finds it and buys it, but cares little about the price. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it, the salesman quickly takes it out, and the business of trying it on follows at once. If all is well, the deal(买卖) can be and is often completed in less than five minutes, with hard any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.
For a man, small problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman tries to sell the customer something else—he offers the nearest he can to the thing asked for. He would say, "I know this jacket is not the style. you want, Sir, but would you like to try it on for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned." Few men have patience (耐心 ) with this treatment, and the usual answer is, "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on."
Now how docs a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect (方面) she does so quite differently. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind about what she wants, and she is only "having a look around". She is always open to what the salesman tells her, even to what her friends tell her. She will try on any number of things. What is most important in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Besides, most women have an excellent sense of value when they boy clothes. The), are always ready for the unexpected bargain (便宜货). Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one counter to another before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It takes time, but surely it is enjoyable to women shoppers. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
When a man is buying clothes, ______.
A.he buys cheap things and does not care about the quality
B.he chooses things that others recommend
C.he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things
D.he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too expensive
Why didn’t the three walk back together after the car got stuck in the sand?()
A、They didn’t have enough food and water.
B、The writer knew where to get a camel or a car.
C、The writer knew a Bedouin who lived nearby would give help.
D、The long desert walk was too hard for the young and the old.