Before the 20th century the horse provided day to day transportation in the United States.Trains were used only for long-distance transportation.
  Today the car is the most popolar 1 of transportation in all of the United States.It has completely 2 the horse as a means of everyday transportation.Americans use their car for 3 90 percent of all personal 4 .
  Most Americans are able to 5 cars.The average price of a 6 made car was ,050 in 1950, , 740 in 1960 and up to , 750 7 1975.During this period American car manufacturers set about 8 their products and work efficiency.
  As a result, the yearly income of the 9 family increased from 1950 to 1975 10 than the price of cars.For this reason 11 a new car takes a smaller 12 of a family's total earnings today.
  In 1951 13 it took 8.1 months of an average family's 14 to buy a new car.In 1962 a new car 15 8.3 of a family's annual earnings.By 1975 it only took 4.75 16 income.In addition, the 1975 cars were technically 17 to models from previous years.
  The 18 of the automobile extends throughout the economy 19 the car is so important to Americans.Americans spend more money to 20 their cars running than on any other item.
  1.A.pes
regularly什么意思  2.A.placed D.ridiculed
  3.A.ainly D.somehow
  ip B.works C.avel
  5.A.buy B.sell C.race D.see
  6.A.ularly C.ly
  B.in C.behind D.about
  8.A.raising B.ducing D.improving
  9.A.unusual B.interested C.average D.biggest
  10.A.slowest B.equal C.faster D.less than
  11.A.bringing B.obtain C.bought D.purchasing
  12.A.part B.half C.number D.side
  13.A.clearly B.proportionally
  C.percentage D.suddenly
  14.A.income B.work C.plants D.debts
  15.A.used B.ded
  hs B.dollar s C.ar
  17.A.famous B.superior C.fastest D.purchasing
  18.A.ice C.influence D.discussion
  19.A.then B.as C.so D.which
  20.A.start B.leave C.pairCloze Test 34
  1.【答案】B
  【解析】本题易错选C.但mean不是名词，“手段”和“方式”的名词为means。
  2.【答案】C
  【解析】根据句子意思判断，replace意为“代替”,正确。
  3.【答案】B
  【解析】Nearly的意思是“几乎，大约”；hardly的意思是“几乎不”；如：He could hardly do that.他几乎不能做那件事。
  4.【答案】A
  【解析】本题易错选D。但travel指远距离的旅行，而trip指以工作和娱乐为目的的短距离旅行。
  5.【答案】A
  【解析】根据下句的意思判断。
  6.【答案】D
  【解析】根据句子意思判断，recently made意为“最近生产的”。
  7.【答案】B
  【解析】在某一年用介词in。
  8.【答案】D
  【解析】因为“改进产品”与“提高工作效率”意思连贯，符合上下文意思。
  9.【答案】C
  【解析】句子意思为“平均家庭年收入”，所以应选average。
  10.【答案】C
  【解析】than前面要用比较级。
  11.【答案】D
  【解析】根据句子意思判断, purchasing为交易买卖的意思。
  12.【答案】A
  【解析】take a part在本句中意为“占一部分”。
  13.【答案】B
  【解析】这里需要一个副词proportionally表达“按比例地;适当地；相称的，相当的”意思。
  14.【答案】A
  【解析】income上文中已提到。
  15.【答案】C
  【解析】cost指某物花费某人多少钱，如：The coat cost me.Spend指某人花多少钱买某物，如：I spent on the coat.
  16.【答案】A
  【解析】根据句子意思判断。
  17.【答案】B
  【解析】superior to是短语，“优于”的意思。
  18.【答案】C
  【解析】根据句子意思判断。
  19.【答案】B
  【解析】as引导的原因状语从句。
  20.【答案】C
  【解析】keep their car running是属于keep sth.doing这个固定动词短语，意为“保持……继续进行”。
　Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children.And they must have 1 how difficult it is to write a 2 children's book.Either the author has aimed too 3 ., so that the children can't follow what is in his (or more often, her) story, 4 the story seems to be talking to the readers.
  The best children's books are 5 very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the 6 who hears the story and the adult who 7 it.Unfortunately, there are in fact 8 books like this, 9 the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not 10 to solve.
  This may be why many of books regarded as 11 of children's literature were in fact written for 12 .“Alice's Adventure in Wonderland”is perhaps the most 13 of this.
  Children, left for themselves, often 14 the worst possible interest in literature.Just leave a child in bookshop or 15 and he will 16 willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children's comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the 17 of teachers and right-thinking parents.
  Perhaps we parents should stop trying to brainwash childrensintos18 our taste in literature.After all children and adults are so 19 that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the 20 books.So I suppose we'll just have to compromise over that bedtime story.
  1.A.ld D.said
  2.A.short B.long C.d
  3.A.easy B.short C.high D.difficult
  4.A.and B. D.so
  5.A.ither C.either D.very
  6.A.child B.acher.
  7.A.hears B.buys C.ads
  8.A.few B.many
  C.a great deal of D.a great number of
  9.A.but B.however C.so D.because
  10A.hard B.ugh D.fast
  11.A.articles B.work C.arts D.works
  wn ups B.girls C.boys D.children
  13.A.difficult B.hidden C.obvious D.easy
  14.A.are B.show C.find D.add
  15.A.school B.home C.office D.library