Cars are an important part of life in the United States. (1) a car most people feel that they are poor. And (2) if a person is poor he doesn’t feel really poor (3) he has a car. There are (4) main reasons the car becomes so (5) in the United States. (6) of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move (7) in it. The car provides the most comfortable and (8) form of transportation. (9) a car people can go any place without spending a lot of money. The second reason cars are popular is the fact (10) the United States never developed an (11) and inexpensive form of public (12) . Long distance trains have never been (13) common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air service (14) But it is (15) expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is (16) really made cars popular. Americans don’t like to wait (17) a bus，or a train or even a plane．They don’t like to have to (18) an exact schedule．A car gives them the (19) to schedule their own time．And this is the freedom that Americans want (20) to have．