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America is the land of the automobile. This country has only 6 percent of the world’s population but 46 percent of the world’s cars. Right now, there are 97 million privately owned cars consuming ’75 billion gallons of gasoline and traveling an estimated 1,000 billion miles, a year. The figures also affirm something we know every time we refill our gasoline tank. The automobile is a very thirsty piece of technology. Of the total petroleum supply in the United States, 30 percent goes to quench that thirst. Every year for each passenger car, about 800 gallons of gasoline are consumed.
Other aspects of our commitment to the automobile also bear mentioning here, it takes a great deal of energy to manufacture one automobile--about 150 million BTUs of energy. This is equivalent to 1,200 gallons of gasoline, enough to run a car for about 16,000 miles. We expend energy in the process of shipping cars from factories to showrooms, displaying
A. Americans Annual Consumption of Gas
B. Importance of Energy Conservation
C. Energy Problems
D. Automobile-Americas Thirsty Machine

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America is the land of the automobile. This country has only 6 percent of the world’s population but 46 percent of the world’s cars. Right now, there are 97 million privately owned cars consuming ’75 billion gallons of gasoline and traveling an estimated 1,000 billion miles, a year. The figures also affirm something we know every time we refill our gasoline tank. The automobile is a very thirsty piece of technology. Of the total petroleum supply in the United States, 30 percent goes to quench that thirst. Every year for each passenger car, about 800 gallons of gasoline are consumed.
Other aspects of our commitment to the automobile also bear mentioning here, it takes a great deal of energy to manufacture one automobile--about 150 million BTUs of energy. This is equivalent to 1,200 gallons of gasoline, enough to run a car for about 16,000 miles. We expend energy in the process of shipping cars from factories to showrooms, displaying
A. with more effective transportation of consumer goods
B. with better educational programs and planning techniques
C. with an efficient system of inner-city transportation
D. with forceful limitation of the use of the automobile

[单项选择]The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the ______.
A. abridgement
B. bibliography
C. commentary
D. epitaph
E. title

[单项选择]Slavery was （　） in America in the 19th century.
A. cancelled
B. completed
C. accomplished
D. abolished

[单项选择]Before 1500 North America was inhabited by more than 300 cultural groups , each with different customs, social structures, world views, and languages. Such diversity the existence of a single Native American culture.
A. complements
B. implies
C. reiterates
D. argues against

[单项选择]They __________ in America on September 9th.


A. arrived
B. got
C. reached

[单项选择]During the 18th century land was cheap, grain was plentiful, and meat was ______.


A. abundant
B. sufficient
C. enough
D. adequate