Question

Right in front of the Minneapolis Central Library, a row of green bikes sits parked in a special stand. Each bike is designed with the logo “Nice Ride”-the name of the city's bike-sharing programme.

Nice Ride bikes are a lot like the library books that people come here to borrow. To rent a bike, you simply use your membership card at a Nice Ride bike station. Members can rent one of 1,200 bikes from 138 stations throughout Minnesota's largest city. People use the Nice Ride bikes to go to work, to go out on business, or just to enjoy the city's many bike paths.

The rise of bike-sharing programmes like Nice Ride is encouraging more people than ever to choose biking over driving. Skyrocketing gas prices and concerns about the environment have also gotten people to dust off their bike helmets, pump air into flat tires, and hit the road.

Why ride? Not only is biking good exercise, but switching from a car to a bike also cuts down the amount of pollution in the air. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to climate change, is one of the many polluting substances that come out of a car's tail pipe.

Bike-sharing systems are found around the world in cities like London, Paris, Barcelona, and Melbourne. The largest programme with 70,000 bikes-is in Wuhan, China.

To make roads friendlier to non-motorists, the US Department of Transportation has invested more than a billion dollars in cycling and pedestrian projects in recent years. The money went towards building thousands of miles of on-street bike lanes and pedestrian-only passages called greenways.

1.Which of the following can people do with the bikes?

A.Earn a living. B.Enjoy bikeways.

C.Compete in a race. D.Rent them out to others.

2.What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A.Benefits of biking.

B.Pollution caused by cars.

C.Methods to use the bikes.

D.Measures to decrease pollution.

3.Which of the following is true of Nice Ride?

A.China has better public bike systems than it. B.It will take the place of taxi companies.

C.It attracts more people to choose biking. D.The government lacks money to support it.

4.What is the author's purpose in writing this text?

A.To seek advice for Nice Ride.

B.To compare Nice Ride with libraries.

C.To raise money for bike-sharing programmes.

D.To introduce the bike-sharing system in public places.

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.D

【解析】

本文是说明文。文章介绍了一个城市自行车共享的项目，鼓励人们骑车出行，减少污染。

1.细节理解题。根据第二段提到 People use the Nice Ride bikes to go to work, to go out on business, or just to enjoy the city's many bike paths.可知，人们用自行车可以去工作，谈生意，享受城市的自行车道，故选 B。

2.主旨大意题。根据第四段提到 Not only is biking good exercise, but switching from a car to a bike also reduces the amount of pollution in the air.可知，骑自行车车不仅仅可以锻炼身体，还能减少汽车有害气体的排放，有助于环保，所以第四段主要是关于自行车的益处。故选 A。

3.细节理解题。根据文中提到鼓励人们骑自行车而不是取代车辆，故 A 错误；根据倒数第二 段提到 The largest program-with 70,000 bikes-is in Wuhan, China.可知，有一个项目 在中国，而不是自行车体系，故 B 项错误；根据最后一段提到 To make roads friendlier to non-motorists, the U.S. Department of Transportation has invested more than a billion dollars in cycling and pedestrian projects in recent years.可知政府大量的投入，故 D 项错误；根据第三段提到 The rise of bike-sharing programmes like Nice Ride is encouraging more people than ever to choose biking over driving.s 可知，像Nice Ride这样的共享单车项目的兴起，正鼓励比以往更多的人选择骑自行车而不是开车。所以C选项正确。故选 C。

4.推理判断题。阅读原文根据首段Each bike is designed with the logo “Nice Ride”-the name of the city's bike-sharing programme.可知，每辆自行车的设计都带有“Nice Ride”的标志，这是该市共享单车项目的名称。以及全文对Nice Ride的具体介绍。由此判断出作者写作目的是为了介绍公共场所的共享自行车系统，故选 D。