北師大版高中英語模塊3--Unit 9 Wheels 2
[00:01.72]By the 1950s, cars with much more interesting
[00:05.07]designs were being produced.
[00:06.95]Some of the car companies,
[00:08.59]like Cadillac, based their designs on airplanes
[00:12.38]In the 1960s,
[00:14.26]the American public became bored
[00:16.10]with the choices offered
[00:17.46]by American car companies.
[00:19.78]Around this time a lot of stylish
[00:22.05]but cheaper cars were coming out of Europe,
[00:24.54]made by companies like BMW and Mercedes.
[00:28.29]American-made cars stopped being as popular
[00:31.45]and the rule of the American car was ending.
[00:35.80]Today cars are a very important part
[00:37.87]of American culture.
[00:39.75]Wherever you go in America
[00:41.98]you can find highways,
[00:43.09]multi-storey car parks,drive-in cinemas
[00:46.75]and drive-through fast food food restaurants,
[00:49.38]all built to suit the needs of car owners.
[00:52.78]Motor cars have changed America and the world.
[00:56.89]Cars, buses and taxis make our lives
[01:00.22]so much simpler.
[01:01.80]Traveling from place to place
[01:03.93]is now so much cheaper and easier.
[01:06.60]Roads now connect the biggest cities
[01:08.77]to the smallest towns
[01:10.67]so it's possible to go anywhere at anytime.
[01:14.02]And it all began with the American Model T Ford
[01:17.24]
