关于成人高考的英语完型填空二

　　Passage 12

　　Cars are __1__ 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 __2__. He probably didn't know how much the car was going to __3__ 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 __4__ 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 __5__ 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 __6__ an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in the United Stat