填空题 The automobile, along with a house and a garden, is 1 of the American Dream.
The 2 had 1.8 vehicles; each vehicle is driven an average of 10,000 miles per year at an average highway speed of 3 . Most cars are used for 4 ; less than 6% of the American workforce uses 5 to get to work. Some of the country"s wonderful high-speed highways now carry three or more times the 6 and twice a day mm into parking lots. San Francisco and Washington D.C win the prize for the two cities with 7 .
Even if 8 could walk to anything other than the house next door, they wouldn"t. Walking is un-American. Whenever possible, Americans drive and, if necessary, wait to get a parking place 9 . Congestion occurs as drivers 10 , looking for a parking place that"s closer to where they want to go.
American cars are all 11 . A stick shift (manual) is harder to drive and therefore considered sportier, 12 . And continually pressing on the clutch can get tiresome if one drives 30 miles each day to work in heavy traffic, as many Americans do. An American man might 13 so his wife won"t be able to drive it—and vice versa.
A car is not just an American"s 14 , it"s a suit of clothes, a haircut, 15 to the world. Car owners not only select vehicles that reflect this, they also customize them in different ways. They paint the cars 16 or woodland scenes; they add mirrors and chrome and 17 ; they put shingle all over old school buses and mm them into 18 . More conventional drivers .satisfy themselves with bumper stickers that reveal their 19 , political opinions, or 20 , form "Yale School of Law" to "If you are rich, I am single".