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[单项选择]"It was the beginning of a revolution in America and the world, a revolution that some have yet to acknowledge and many have yet to appreciate," says Harold Skramstad, president of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. 1776 No indeed. 1896, when Frank Duryea finally perfected the Duryea Motor Wagon. At its first airing, the contraption rolled less than 100 metres before the transmission froze up. But by the end of 1896 Duryea had sold 13 of them, thus giving birth to the American motor industry.
That industry (whose roots, outside America, are usually attributed to tinkerings by Messrs Daimler and Benz in Germany) is being celebrated hugely over the coming months, culminating with a Great American Cruise in Detroit in June. "Our goal is to attract the greatest collection of antique and classic cars this nation has ever seen in one place at one time," says Mr. Skramstad modestly.
Americans may indeed blame the car for almost everything that has happened to their country
A. introduce new models of automobiles
B. emphasize automobiles have brought wealth to the nation
C. commemorate the centenary anniversary of the birth of the American motor industry
D. illustrate the rapid development of automobile industry in America
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Black people were the only" immigrants" who didn’t choose to come to America. For hundreds of years, Africans were taken from their homes to be slaves in the New World. The end of the Civil War (37) brought freedom to the slaves in 1865, but blacks still had a lower position in the society. The Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s helped black people (38) many of the rights promised in the Constitution. In 1955, Rosa Parks (39) to give up her seat on a bus for a white man. Her courage (40) a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that ended (41) on city buses. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged black people to use (42) means to achieve their goals of equal (43) . Finally, Congress passed the Civil Rights A