Bikes are popular in the Dutch(荷兰). In fact, nearly half of all travel in the Dutch is by bike. Now, one Dutch bike designer(设计师), Thomas, has taken the country’s interest in bikes by making a school bus bike.
The big bike has eight sets of pedals(踏板) for kids, a driver seat for an adult, and three other seats, comfortably letting little kids for their trip to and from school. The bike even has a motor, which can help with high hills or at times when few kids on it.
So far, Thomas tells Fast Company, he’s sold 25 school-bikes, at a price of $ 25,000 each—less than it would cost to buy a traditional school bus with the same number of seats. Along with the traditional color, the bikes ,are colored yellow so that they can be seen easily.
Thomas says he’s sold school bus bikes to neighboring countries such as Belgium, England and Germany, but so far, the school bus bike hasn’t been sold in the United States. If the U.S. agrees to buy this kind of school bus bike, it could do a lot of good to improve exercise for a young age and help them keep healthy.
1.How do people in the Dutch usually go to work?
A. By car. B. By bus.
C. By bike. D. On foot.
2.How many seats does the school bus bike have?
A. Three. B. Eight.
C. Nine. D. Twelve.
3.The school buses are yellow in the Dutch because _______.
A. the color yellow is easy to paint
B. yellow buses can be seen easily
C. yellow is the national color of Dutch
D. it’s the designer’s favorite color
4.Which country of the following hasn’t bought a school bus bike?
A. America. B. Germany.
C. England. D. Belgium.
5. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Thomas made a new kind of school bus.
B. A school bus usually costs $ 25,000.
C. Thomas sold bikes to Asian countries.
D. Riding school bus bikes helps keep kids healthy.
Each nation has many volunteers(志愿者) who help to take care of others. They books to the people in hospitals or homes for the aged. Sometimes they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their .
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or . They paint, clean up, their houses or do their shopping.
For boys who no longer have , there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing places and help them to get to know things that boys learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts (工艺). Some of these clubs organize short trips to the mountains, beaches, or other places of interest . Most of these clubs use high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to the names of boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to i happiness to others.
1. A. sell B. read C. throw D. show
2. A. voices B. speeches C. songs D. problems
3.A. young B. happy C. old D. hungry
4.A. pollute B. repair C. build D. remove
5.A. brothers B. sisters C. fathers D. mothers
6.A. usually B. never C. only D. seldom
7.A. which B. who C. when D. where
8.A. nearby B. faraway C. abroad D. home
9.A. report B. forget C. remember D. choose
10. A. cause B. bring C. take D. lend
—Is your headache getting _______? —No, it’s worse.
A. better B. bad
C. less D. well
—Which is your new neighbour, Liu Hua? —The man _______ T-shirt is red.
A. that B. who
C. which D. whose
—Do you know _______ the Capital Museum? —Next Friday.
A. when will they visit B. when they will visit
C. when did they visit D. when they visited
Granny often tells us _______ water in our daily life.
A. save B. saving
C. to save D. saves
