Фоменко Е.А., Бодоньи М.А. и др_ЕГЭ-2014    

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 The Automobile

B4

Cars are а 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 а maximum speed of around nine miles an hour.

 GET

B6

In Britain, there was а law ……………………… cars from going over two miles 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.

 CHANGE

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 the ……………………… sign of the success of the car is the fact that there are over 800 million of them in the world.

 BIG