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Passage 3:impersonal mass tourism with a more personalized form of travel led by local residents. Entrepreneur Gloria Molins founded Trip4real in 2012 to link travelers with locals who offer peer-to-peer tours and activities—often cheaper than professional guides but authentic and flexible. The service quickly spread across Europe, attracting visitors who wanted hands-on cultural experiences (for example, seeing historic sites in Rome or shopping and cooking in Athens). Some locals earned enough to guide full-time, while others participated occasionally. In 2016 Airbnb bought Trip4real, adding these local experiences to its platform to promote authentic, “do-what-the-locals-do” travel alternatives to standard tourist routes.
Passage 1: the long history of the automobile, noting that development began earlier than many expect—19th-century steam vehicles in England and an early electric car in the U.S. Inventors such as Daimler, Benz, Olds, Ford and others contributed components and advances that produced the modern car. Henry Ford is highlighted for seeing cars as attainable for ordinary people and for revolutionizing production: beginning in 1913 he used assembly-line methods and specialized labor, which dramatically cut the Model T’s price. That mass-production approach reduced customer choice (the Model T was largely uniform—“any color…so long as it’s black”) but made cars widely affordable and reshaped industry, consumer goods, and how people work and travel.Based on information in Passage 1 and Passage 3, which topic would Henry Ford and Gloria Molins most likely view differently?
A. Material products have more value to consumers than services or experiences.
B. Consumers of products and services can be swayed by the prices offered to them.
C. The speed at which a product or service is created and ready for users is important.
D. Customizing products or services to suit the needs of a consumer can improve a product or service.

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D. Passage 1 shows Ford favored mass production and uniformity (the Model T’s limited options) while Passage 3 describes Molins promoting personalized, local experiences—so they would differ on the value of customization.