Bài 11: Cho dạng đúng của động từ trong ngoặc để hoàn thành đoạn văn dưới đây Early automobiles Many inventors were trying (1)¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬________________(build) gas-powered, self-propelled vehicles in the late 1800's. A French inventor succeeded in (2) ________________ (create) a steam-powered tricycle in 1769. A German engineer, Niklaus August Otto, is known for (3) ________________ (invent) the four-stroke gas-powered engine in 1876. Both Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz managed (4) ________________ (build) and (5) ________________ (sell) autos in Germany in the 1880s. By 1898 there were 50 companies responsible for (6) ________________ (market) cars in the United States alone. That number happened (7) ________________ (expand) to 241 by 1908. It was in 1908 when Henry Ford started (8) ________________ (make) automotive history. It was in that year that he managed (9) ________________ (put) together the first assembly line and (10) ________________ (lower) the price of automobiles so that everyone could buy one. He began (11) ________________ (arrange) workers so that they could each do a small part of the job in sequence. This prevented (12) ________________ (repeat) a log of unnecessary steps in the assembly process. By 1913 he managed (13) ________________ (produce) 250,000 cars a year. His first mass-produced car, the Model T, guaranteed (14) ________________ (give) modest-income Americans decent transportation for a reasonable ($500 USD!) price. Henry Ford went on (15) ________________ (lead) the U.S. automobile industry for many years. Though he tried, he failed (16) ________________ (get) elected to the U.S. Senate in 1918. His company was started with just $28,000 and, by 1913, managed (17) ________________ (pay) dividends of $11 million. While Ford declined (18) ________________ (give) away more than a modest amount during his lifetime, the Ford Foundation arranges (19) ________________ (donate) millions of dollars each year to deserving causes.