Cars are an important (1) of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And (2) if a person is poor he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.There are three main reasons the car become so (3) in the United States. First of all, the country is the huge one and the Americans like to move (4) in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. (5) 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 developed (6) and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been (7) common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service providing planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is (8) really made cars popular. Americans don’t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to (9) an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule (10) time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.

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