Bicycles - Lesson 200
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___(1)___ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci had drawn picture for bicycle and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced ___(2)___ long after he died. A person riding a bicycle use ___(3)___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so in developed ___(4)___, most people don't travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel ___(5)___ if they ride to work. It's because ___(6)___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___(7)____ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___(8)___ their cars, and in this way, the situation is made more serious. ___(9)___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths only for bicycle and to make ___(10)___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.
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