Read the article about bicycles and choose the best word (A, B or C) for each space.
BICYCLES
The bicycle is ……….. (1) cheap and clean way to travel. The first bicycle ………. (2) made about one hundred and fifty years ago. At first, bicycles were expensive. Only rich people ………. (3) buy one. These early bicycles looked very different from the ones we have today. Later, ……….. (4) bicycles became cheaper, many people ……….. (5) one. People started riding bicycles to work and in ……….. (6) free time. Today, people use cars more than bicycles; cars are much …….. (7) and you don’t get wet when it rains! But some people ……….. (8) prefer to cycle to work, They say that ……… (9) are too many cars in town centres and you can’t find anywhere to park!
1. A. some B. any C. a
2. A. was B. is C. were
3. A. must B. could C. may
4. A. when B. if C. that
5. A. buy B. buys C. bought
6. A. their B. his C. its
7. A. fast B. faster C. fastest
8. A. yet B. still C. already
9. A. they B. there C. here