关于成人高考的英语完型填空二(7)

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江西成考网
发布日期
2006年08月24日

摘要:  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

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  The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions: the helicopter in 1909, movies with sound in 1926, the computer in 1928, and jet planes in 1930. This was also a time __5__ a new material was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wore.

  The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help people __6__ disease. They worked very well. They made people healthier and let them live __7__ lives. By the 1960's most people could expect to live to be at least 60.

  By this time most people had a very good life. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began __8__ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took a step. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, have made their steps into space.

  In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. Americans first walked on the moon. This is