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Reference for Teaching 一、异域风情 1．Cars and the United Stares Cars are an important part of life in the United Stales． Without a car most people feel that they are poor．And even if a person is poor, he doesn’t feel rearlly poor when he has a car． Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers．He probably didn’t know how much the car was going to affect American lecture the car made the United Stares a nation on wheels, And it helped make the United states what it is today． There are three main reasons the car became 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 the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation．With a car people can go any place without spending a lot of money． The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation, Long-distance trains have never been as common in the United Stakes as they are in other parts of the world, Nowadays there is a good system of air-service provided by planes．But it is too expensive to be used frequently． The third reason is the most important one, though the American spirit independence is what really made cars popular． Americans don’t like to wait for a bus or a train or even a plant． They don’t like to have to follow an exact schedule．A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. And this is the freedom That Americans didn’t use to have． The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans．But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation．The real solution Will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use too much gas． 2．The Development of Mobile Phones There were 423 million mobile phones sold worldwide in 2002， up six percent from 400 million in 2001．The number of mobile phones sold in 2002 has doubled over the past three years．Gartner Datagu