Вставьте слова в пропуски по смыслу: means of transport, speed, roads, miles, petrol

Cars are a common sight on … today, but that wasn’t always true.

Back in the days before the car was invented, the only personal ….were the horse and the bicycle.

The first cars got their power from steam and gas, and had a maximum … of around nine miles an hour.

In Britain, there was a law stopping cars from going over two miles an hour in towns.

At the end of the nineteenth century, cars started to use … and became much faster than they had been.

Very few people at that time said that cars would change the world in the future. That is exactly what has happened, though, and since then we have built about eighteen million … of roads on the Earth.