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The Automobile
B4 | Cars are a common sight on roads today, but that wasn't always true. Back in the days before the car ……………, the only personal means of transport were the horse and the bicycle. | INVENT |
B5 | The first cars …………… their power from steam and gas, and had a maximum speed of around nine miles an hour. | GET |
B6 | In Britain, there was a law …………… cars from going over twomiles an hour in towns. | STOP |
B7 | At the end of the nineteenth century, cars started to use petrol and became much …………… than they had been. | FAST |
B8 | Very few people at that time said that cars …………… the world in the future. | CHANGES |
B9 | That is exactly what has happened, though, and since then we …………… close to eighteen million miles of roads on the Earth. | BUILD |
B10 | Perhaps …………… sign of the success of the car is the fact that there are over 800 million of them in the world. | BIG |
B11 | However, having more cars on the road …………… more pollution, and that's a major worry for many people. | MEAN |