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第三部分Neek Five人与自我兴趣与爱好
Week Five
人与自我
兴趣与爱好
Monday
◆答案P177
■阅读理解
热爱骑自行车
O关键词:ride bikes
⊙难度:3
@体裁:记叙文
⊙词数:341
@正确率:/4
建议时间:8
When I was 11,my grandmother visited
was riding along,watching the waves break,
from England,bringing me a bicycle.As the
hearing the gulls cry.It seemed that everyone
owner of the first English bicycle my peers(
I passed smiled and waved or called out,
龄人)had ever seen,I was almost a famous
"Great day for a bike ride".And I knew they all
person.
remembered their first bike and how it had set
It was light and responsive(反应灵敏
them free.I wanted to call back to them,"it
的)一riding it felt like flying.I rode it
still can.”
everywhere all over the hilly suburb where we
1.What is the main idea of the second
lived.I rode past the big stone houses with their
paragraph?
huge yards and trees.I rode alone and with
A.What pleasure the writer got from riding.
gangs of friends through the seasons-spicy
B.How addicted the writer was to riding a
autumn dusks,lingering(徘徊的)spring
bike.
afternoons,hot summer mornings,even deep
C.Where the writer rode his bike to visit.
into the chill of winter before snow and ice
D.How long the writer covered a year by
stopped me.
bike.
That beloved bike went with me to
2.What does the underlined word "conspicuous"
college,carrying me to the library and to
mean?
classes.Beyond transport,it was often a
A.Careful.
B.Nervous.
support.Pushing it along as I walked the college
C.Obvious.
D.Popular.
paths made me feel less conspicuous,less self-
3.When first riding his comfort bike,the
conscious.Somehow,conversation flowed more
writer
easily on either side of a bike.
A.felt a little clumsy
For years after college,I didn't have a
B.worried about falling down
bicycle that was specifically mine.Teaching in a
C.experienced the pleasure at once
New England prep school,I simply rode
D.was too fearful to ride on
whatever bikes its graduates had left behind.I
4.What did the writer think biking can do?
rode around the little town on bikes tha