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a TV set. Cleaning up afterwards was no problem. The tin trays were          which is also another name for hitchhiking. Any motorist seeing 24.
easily tossed into the garbage.                                              person on the roadside with this hand gesture is quick to recognize his
                                                                             intention and reserves the right to give or decline him 25. lift to
From 26. fast dinners at home the next step was quick eating while on        26. convenient destination. Although in most cases the rides are free,
27. road. At this time also the love for TV was combined with 28. fas-       some motorists may accept some money contributed to the cost of tolls
cination for 29. automobile. It is not odd that with the development of      and gas. For those motorists traveling alone 27. fellow rider will help
the superhighways America saw the beginning of 30. fast food chains.         pass the time on 28. journey. Some hitchhikers may even go so far as
McDonald’s paved the way with its variety of burgers and shakes soon         to paint 29. poster with the name of the city of their destination written
to be followed by all kinds of 31. other foods. Today dozens of fast-        on it. In 30. large letters they print the name of the city where they
food chain franchises can be found along 32. highways, in 33. modern         want to go, stand by the side of the road and hope that some motorist
shopping malls and scattered throughout 34. neighborhoods in America.        who is going in that direction will stop to give them 31. ride.
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Roy Roger’s, Burger King and Wendy’s are just          Another popular way to get a ride is to hang out around 32. highway
35. few of the fast-food chains which are now part of American culture.      rest stops and ask people in the dining area if they are going your way.
They offer chicken, donuts, tacos and pizza, all quickly produced in         If a hitchhiker is patient, someone will surely make themselves avail-
great quantities for the masses.                                             able and offer 33. ride. Hitching 34. ride with 35. family is always
                                                                             safer than getting a ride from someone who is alone. 36. Truck drivers
TEXT FOURTEEN              HITCHHIKING ON THE OPEN ROAD                      transporting 37. goods across the country are also safer that the lone
                                                                             driver aNd may have extra room in the cabin of their truck for 38. pas-
Since 1. auto is 2. main source of 3. travel in America and distances        senger. As 39. rule heeding to one’s intuition and inner common sense
between major cities are far, 4. common way of getting around the            is 40. good measure to judge if 41. driver is honest and the ride is safe.
country is by 5. hitchhiking. Although it is not illegal, 6. law enforcers   There is always 42. risk, however, for both the driver and the hitch-
and most people in 7. authority, especially school administrators, try to    hiker. Both are totally unknown to each other and it takes 43. act of 44.
discourage people, especially the young, from traveling this way. Most       faith to trust whether intentions are sincere on 45. both sides.
people, however, are aware of 8. dangers which one can encounter by
hitchhiking but 9. money saved by doing so is often 10. just compen-
sation for 11. risk involved. 12. word hitchhiking entered the English
language around 1925 when 13. automobile became 14. popular means
of transportation. Anyone can hitchhike. There are no age limitations
but it is especially popular with 15. college students trying to go cross-
country or 16. overseas traveler hoping to discover America. Some
hitchhikers may even be 17. homeless or runaway youths who have no
real sense of where they are going but are eager to leave their home-
towns. The hitchhiker usually stands at the entrance ramps of highways
or along the road itself with fingers clenched and 18. thumb of 19.
right hand extended and pointing to 20. direction of the traffic. This is
called “thumbing 21. ride”, 22. expression coined in 23. late 1930s,

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