Road Trip
Comprehension

The following paragraph comes from the Road Trip story. After reading the story, see if you can fill in the blanks from memory.

Early car owners demanded better (1)_______ in their own areas. They also wanted to travel to other towns and to other (2)_______. There were early attempts to (3)________ across Canada. In 1912, an Englishman named Thomas Wilby took 52 days to get from Halifax to (4)_______. He drove through swamps, forests, open (5)_______, and mountainous (6)_______. In some places he had to use a train or a
(7)_______ to get through. In 1920, Percy Montgomery drove from Montreal to Vancouver in 32 (8)_______. But he dipped down into the (9)_______ because sections of the road in Canada hadn’t been built or were too (10)_______. Then in 1925, two Canadians crossed Canada by car, but not always by (11)_______. They had a special set of
(12)_______ for their car that fit on railway tracks. When the driving got too difficult, they slipped on the train wheels and rode along on the
(13)_______. Finally in 1946, two men (14)_______ from Nova Scotia to Victoria on Canadian roads. It took them (15)_______ days in a new Chevrolet.