Unit9 Lesson1 Return of the white bikes!
People have been enjoying the 1.______________ of cycling in Amsterdam for years. It is a good city for cycling because it is flat and 2.___________ is convenient for bikes. There are also plenty of places for bicycle parking and most streets in the city centre have a bicycle path. Today some people call Amsterdam the “City of Bicycles” because of the 3.________________ for bicycles there.
In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans had an idea. They believed that it would be better for everybody if cars weren’t allowed in the city center and only bicycles were. They were hopeful that this would help to save energy, 4.____________ pollution and provide free public transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles white and 5.__________ them in lots of neighborhoods around Amsterdam for people to use. Anyone was allowed to take them and use them for short journeys. Wherever someone finished a journey they would 6.______________the bike there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn’t work---thieves took all the bicycles 7.__________ weeks!
However, more than thirty years later, the “white bike” is back in town---this time with a computer chip to 8.___________ its every move! To take a bicycle, you have to insert a special card. The new “white bike” is not 9. ___________ white but is an unusual design with bright colours. The bikes are parked at special parking places and people who want to use them have to take them to another special parking place that have enough room.
There is already less traffic in central Amsterdam, because both 10. __________ and tourists have been using the white bikes. Indeed, 11.________________ the ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city centre streets 12.____________ cars for many years.
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