In the 19th century, Charles Dickens, the English novelist, wrote excitedly of a carriage（马车）, pulled along by a team of horses, that could （1） more than twenty miles of road (2) sixty minutes. To us in the twenty-first century, in which man is able to move and communicate so rapidly, the (3) of the carriage seems nothing at all. Planes fly many hundreds of miles in an hour. And even without (4) , we can, by wireless or telephone, communicate within (5) with people on the other side of the (6) The benefits（益处）of these increased（增长的）speeds are countless （无数的）.

　　Businessmen’s travelling from Europe to America can (7) much time, for the journey that would once have takes weeks (8) now, by air, only twenty-four hours. Members of one family separated from each other by long (9) can have talks with each other by telephone as (10) as if they were sitting in the same room. Not all the effects（影响）of speed, (11) , are beneficial. People who are in the (12) of using a motor car (13) they want to move half a mile become lazy and (14) the power of enjoying an active (15) .Those who travel through a country at eighty miles an hour do not (16) much of the life to that country as they (17) .They become (18) anxious about moving quickly from one (19) to another that they are (20) able to relax and enjoy a happy journey.