阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。If history doesn’t quite repeat 【小题1】 (it), it certainly rhymes. With demand for bicycles rapidly【小题2】 (rise), and nations preparing to spend billions to redesign their cities with a new focus on cycling and walking, it’s worth remembering 【小题3】 the invention of the bicycle in the late 19th century transformed the world over.
For a few heady years in the 1890s, the bicycle was the must-have — swift, affordable, stylish transportation that could take you anywhere you cared to go, anytime you 【小题4】 (like), for free.
Society 【小题5】 (transform). Women were especially enthusiastic, deserting their burdensome Victorian skirts, adopting bloomers (灯笼裤), 【小题6】 walking on the road in groups. “I think bicycling has done more 【小题7】 (free) women than anything else in the world,” Susan B. Anthony said in an interview with the New York Sunday World in 1896. “I feel pleased every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of unrestricted womanhood.”By 1898 cycling had become 【小题8】 a popular activity in the United States that the New York Journal of Commerce claimed it was costing restaurants and theaters more than $100 million a year in lost business. Bicycle manufacturing became one of America’s 【小题9】 (big) and most advanced industries. A third of all patent 【小题10】 (apply) were bicycle related—so many that the U.S. patent office had to build a separate building to deal with them all.
