【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 red， yellow， and green lights. This first working light， on the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in Detroit， was installed in 1920. By the end of that year， the city had 14 other lights like this one. In the same decade， Garrett Man invented the first electric automatic traffic light. Traffic on streets at this time was heavy， with cars， horses， and pedestrians （行人） all sharing the same road. This was a problem， but what was it that motivated Man to work on his new invention？ Man witnessed a terrible accident between a car and a horse and wondered how to prevent this from happening again. main idea of Paragraph 1 is that the first traffic signal _____. in England not so successful gas installed as traffic light in the 18th century may conclude that William Ports was a _____. driver Motor Company worker pany manager officer the end of 1920， the city of Detroit had _____ traffic lights. motivated Man to work on his new invention？ police officer operated each signal. early signals had only red and yellow lights. terrible accident happened between a car and a horse. one noticed the traffic signals. underlined word “ witnessed ” means _____. money for C Colonial Williamsburg — site of the 2020 Reader“s Digest National Word Power Challenge National Championship event！ Click here to learn more about Colonial Williamsburg. Powerful words from our past As a participant in the Reader“s Digest National Word Power Challenge ， you already know about the power of words. Did you ever think about the power of the words spoken by some of the courageous people who shaped our country？ Did you know many of those patriots（愛(ài)國(guó)者） lived in Williamsburg， Virginia， during the colonial days before the American Revolution？ Words spoken in Williamsburg by people like Patrick Henry， Thomas Jefferson， Richard Henry Lee， and Gee Washington were the very basis for the idea of a new country the idea of America. Experience life in colonial America Word Power Challenge finalists will travel to Colonial Williamsburg to visit the place where words shaped the country we know as the United States of America. In Colonial Williamsburg you will see history e alive in a working， living town that is a museum unlike any other in the world. America was not founded without disagreements and inequities（不公平）， in spite of the Declaration of Independence. Colonial Williamsburg includes the stories of slaves， Indian tribes（部落）， women， working tradesmen， and the wealthy. Learn how these different peoples contributed to the founding of America. 64.“ Colonial Williamsburg ” in the passage is probably ________. place of interest event of sightseeing museum of special words with their special stories website of famous Americans who shaped America sentence of “America was not founded without disagreements and inequities（不公平）， in spite of the Declaration of Independence.” in the last paragraph means ________. was in fact full of disagreements and inequities at that time were already no disagreements and inequities after the Declaration of Independence was still a country with many social and political problems before and at its founding Declaration of Independence made the most powerful words in American history， though many Americans disagreed of the following is TRUE according to the passage？ won“t have power unless people with power speak them Words had a great effect on new America “s Colonial Williamsbu rg that first puts the stories of so many different but such great peoples of America well known to the public passage is probably written in memory of some pioneers of the USA D A recent trend （趨勢(shì)） in Californian restaurants shows new eating habits among those out to have an interesting dining experience. Appetizers seem to be the name of the games as diners turn away from the more traditional threecourse meal in favor of smaller snacks sampled in various types of restaurants， bars and cafes. In this way， in the course of an evening out， you might go to a restaurant for a tasty dish to eat at one end of town， to a bar with some live music at the other end， then for a coffee， and finally back to the restaurant for a further appetizer. Reasons for this trend are the fact that so many different types of restaurants have been set up recently， each with their own particular type of food and special atmosphere， bined with the increased sophistication in the type of snacks being offered. Gone are the cheese sticks of the old days， when appetizers were not really taken seriously. Some favorite snacks of the moment are slices of hot pizza， creamy fishbased dishes and crispy cakes and so on. Prices for appetizers are not equal to a full meal； however， their new popularity has meant that they are by no means as cheap as they used to be. Certainly， for that special occasion， a meal in a nice restaurant， plete with the piano performance， is hard to beat. However， if we see that this trend for butterfly eating—— moving around several different places in one evening —— continues， then all the traditional style restaurants may well have to provide their own appetizer bars as well！ a