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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 |