It didn't take long for a lot of people who owned automobiles in the late 1800s to start hiring them out. Even though the first taxis were odd­looking machines that had batteries weighing as much as 800 pounds, there were almost 100 of them in New York City by 1899. They did a great deal of business competing with horse­drawn carriages (马车), ed in New York in 1907, but they were imported from France and not built in the U．S.

　　The 1920s saw an explosion in the taxis，as thousands of them were in use every day.This burgeoning industry needed regulation，and the Mayor of New York，Fiorello H．La Guardia(车辆)that certifies it is legally allowed to pick up passengers.The system helped the government keep track of not just the number of taxis(主要产品)for millions of people.About 12ity alone，and millions of others throughout the U．S.and the rest of the world.An estimated 200 million passengers travel about 800 million miles a year，and pay fares totaling about D|S1 billion a year in New York alone.

　　5．The underlined word“burgeoning”in Paragraph 2 probably means“________”．________．ired

　　B．provided qualified services for the passengers

　　C．were allowed by the government to do business

　　D．couldn't cause any car accidents all the year round

　　7．What's the writer's purpose in writing the passage?

　　A．To analyze the advantages of the taxis

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