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It is over 4, 000 kilometers long and crosses two-thirds of the USA. It has
It is over 4, 000 kilometers long and crosses two-thirds of the USA. It has
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2023-10-19
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It is over 4, 000 kilometers long and crosses two-thirds of the USA. It has been called "The Mother Road" and "The Main Street of America". It has been in films, books and songs and there’ s even a piece on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. C. Welcome to Route 66. It starts in the hustle and bustle of Chicago and arrives in Los Angeles on the Pacific Ocean. Let’ s go back to the 1920s to see how it began.
1920s
In the early 1920s, life in Midwest America was very different. People did not use to travel much because there were no highways near the small towns. But in 1926, things started to change thanks to a new road called Route 66. This new road opened up the American West to hundreds of thousands of people. Agricultural communities that used to be isolated started to grow and develop into towns. Farmers were also able to sell their produce to big cities.
1930s
In the mid-1930s, hard times returned. America was suffering from the Great Depression and across the country, millions of people were out of work. In the Midwest, severe drought conditions and dust storms destroyed farmland and thousands of families were forced to leave their homes. They headed for California, along Route 66, where they had heard there were agricultural jobs. Unfortunately, the mother road led them to shanty towns. Route 66 became associated with the pain and misery of this great migration.
1940s—1950s
When the Great Depression came to an end after World War II, there was a new age of optimism and thousands moved from East to West. People had more free time and many owned cars. They drove along Route 66 to the beaches of California, visiting the Grand Canyon and other attractions along the way. It was boom time for the road and hundreds of diners, motels and service stations lined the route. Billboards and huge statues tempted tourists to stop at man-made and natural attractions, such as the giant Blue Whale in Oklahoma or the Meramec Caverns in Missouri. Then jazz musician Bobby Troupe wrote the hit song Route 66. The mother road had a brand new image—one of freedom and fun.
1956—The present
As more people traveled from East to West, a newer, bigger road was needed and work began on a national interstate highway. Sadly, the towns and attractions along Route 66 began to die out. Then in the 1990s, people started campaigns to preserve the old road, new signs were put up and tourists began to travel down it once again. Today, the mother road still offers an amazing journey through the American West.
Questions 66-70
Answer the following questions according to the passage. [br] When was Route 66 constructed?
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答案
In 1926.
解析
文章第二段第三句提到,但在1926年,由于一条叫做66号公路的新公路,情况开始改变。由此可知本题答案。
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