History of Industry

In Chinese language, the set phrases and separable words are important points for those who study in China to learn. Therefore, teachers should pay more attention to the two points. For the set phrases, teachers should make efforts to figure out some effective methods to gain their understanding and help them master the set phrases.

The set phrases contest is a good way for students to remember the phrases. If there are ten students, teachers should prepare thirty cards. Teachers in Chinese language school should write down one set phrase in each card and then turn them over. All of these set phrases should be classified into three types. Each group should be marked by the number from one to ten.

Teachers should tell the students that they can just read out the set phrases of the first group, especially those characters with more than one pronunciation. Students who study Mandarin in China should find out the wrongly written character in each set phrase of the second group. For the set phrases in the third group, students should fill the blank.

Here are some examples for this game. The set phrases like ‘自给自足、百发百中、不省人事‘ can be applied to the game to help them learn Chinese. For the second group, teachers can write the set phrases wrongly as ‘遵师爱生、大杀风景、走投无路‘ and so on. Teachers can prepare the set phrases like ‘名落( )山、各有()秋、不( )余力‘ for students to fill the blanks.

These parable words in Chinese language usually mean the two-syllable verbs and some other constituents can be inserted into middle of them. For example, we can say ‘吃饭‘ and ‘吃了饭‘. When students learn Mandarin,teachers can demand them mark the separable words with a kind of certain mark when they see one.

Besides, teachers can write them down on the blackboard and ask students to add many kinds of constituents to the separable words. After adding the elements, teachers can also lead them to read to help them memorize. Students who study Chinese should be told there is no formal regularity for the adding parts so teachers should explain them clearly.

After teachers applying the set phrases contests to the teaching, students can learn the set phrases effectively in pronunciation and characters as well as meaning. These parable words should be marked and summarized when they meet to help learners master them.

Whether you’ve traveled to an unfamiliar place or just needed a replacement while your car’s in the shop, chances are you’ve had to rent a car at some point in your life. Rental cars have a long and storied history that’s closely tied to the history of the automobile industry and America itself. As times have changed, so have rental cars – and they remain a crucial part of the automobile industry to this day.

The true beginnings of rental cars are unknown, but many believe that the first true rental car agency began with the Model T, the first mass-produced automobile. Allegedly, the first rental agency belonged to a Nebraskan man named Joe Saunders, who would rent his Model T out for ten cents a mile. Saunders used a mileage meter to determine how far his car had been driven. The legend goes that Saunders’ first rental went to a traveling salesman who wanted to impress a girl on a date.

Whatever the case, Saunders definitely had the first massively successful car-rental agency. By 1925, his business had rental agencies in 21 states. However, the Great Depression led to many people no longer needing rental cars, and Saunders went bankrupt.

While Saunders was establishing his business, a man named Walter Jacobs was also starting his own Model T rental service. Jacobs fared far better than Saunders. He eventually sold his business to Yellow Cab owner John Hertz. Hertz’ company was then bought out by General Motors. Today, Hertz Rent a Car is the largest rental car company in the world.

Rental cars suffered from a bad reputation during the Prohibition period, as many believed they were used to transport criminals. After Prohibition was repealed, the rental car industry enjoyed a better reputation, and expanded considerably.

The industry grew even more after WWII, because the growing popularity of airlines for business travel meant that more people needed a car for their business trips. Hertz had predicted this trend by opening a rental facility at Chicago’s Midway Airport in 1932. Avis is credited with being the first company to do airport-focused rentals as its main source of business. The company’s founder, Warren Avis, was a former Army pilot, and focused almost all their business toward airports and the surrounding areas. Another successful company launched during this time was National Car Rental System, Inc., whose founders included Joe Saunders himself.

In the 1970s and 1980s, rental car companies began selling off their older vehicles, which led to companies such as Hertz also becoming major used-car dealers. At this point, major automobile manufacturing companies began buying up many used car companies in an effort to ensure that these companies would primarily buy their cars from them.