阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    Cars are important in the United States. Most people feel that they are poor without cars. Though he is poor,

he doesn't feel really poor when he has a car.

    Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars. Maybe he didn't know how much the car was going

to affect the United States. The cars make the United States a country on wheels (轮子). And they have helped

to make the United States a rich and modern country.

    The car has become popular in the United States today. The country is a very large one. The Americans like

to move around in it. It is the easiest and cheapest way to travel in car. With a car people can go to any place

without spending a lot of money.

1. In the United States, _______. [ ]

A. most people are too poor to buy cars

B. poor people wouldn't like to buy cars

C. all the poor people have cars

D. people think they are not rich if they don't have cars

2. What was Henry Ford? [ ]

A. He was a car maker.

B. He was a car driver.

C. He was a car seller.

D. He was a traveler in a car.

3. According to the writer, cars in the United States _______. [ ]

A. are the nicest

B. run fastest

C. make the country richer

D. make the country beautiful

4. The Americans like to move in cars because _______. [ ]

A. there are no trains in the United States

B. cars can take them to any place they want to go

C. it doesn't take them much money to travel in cars

D. both B and C

5. Which is the best title? [ ]

A. A Country on Wheels

B. A Rich and Modern Country

C. Making Cars

D. Traveling in Cars

A good translator is by definition bilingual. The opposite is not ______(1) true, however. A born and bred bilingual will still need two__________(2) to become a translator: first, the skills and experience necessary for__________(3); second, knowledge of the field in which he or she will__________(4). The skills and experience for translation include the ability to write ______(5) in the target language, the ability to read and understand the_________(6) language material thoroughly, and the ability to work with the latest__________(7) and communication hardware and software.Does a born and bred bilingual__________(8) a better translator than someone who learned language B later in__________(9) There is no definite answer, but the following issues are important.__________(10), a born and bred bilingual often suffers from not truly knowing __________(11) language well enough to translate, with some even suffering from what __________(12) known as a lingualism, a state in which a person lacks_________(13) full, fluent command of any language. Second, born and bred bilinguals__________(14) don’’t know the culture of the target language well enough to_________(15) top-quality translations, or cannot recognize what aspects of the source language__________(16) its culture need to be treated with particular care, as they_________(17) in a sense too close to the language. And last, they often_________(18) the analytical linguistic skills to work through a sticky text.On_________(19) other hand, the acquired bilingual may not have the same in-depth _________(20) of colloquialisms, slang, and dialect that the born bilingual has. Also, the acquired bilingual will not be able to translate as readily in both directions (from B to language A and A to language B). Finally, born bilinguals often have a greater appreciation of the subtleties and nuances of both their languages than someone who learns their B language later in life can ever hope to have.