Question

 When Jeff was young,he had always been thin and strong. Now Jeff was forty,and he was fat and his muscles (肌肉) were very 1     He did not wish to get fatter and softer every year. One day one of his friends said to him, “Do you want to be thinner,Jeff?" “2     ，I do. ” Jeff answered. “Well，stop going to your office 3      car，and get a bicycle. ”

 Jeff had not ridden a bicycle for many years. “It is very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your 4     . ” His wife said.

In 5     ，it was not too hard for Jeff to ride a bicycle again. He used to sit in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening. But now he 6      riding his bicycle every evening. He hoped that it would help him to get 7     ，and he also got a lot of pleasure from it.

He found some little roads which were not really very narrow but were not 8       enough for cars,and there he got away from the noise of the

city，which were becoming too 9      for him.

Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle. Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light,but he could pass them to the  10     ，because his bicycle was narrow. So he was very happy.

(   ) 1. A.  soft   B. hard

   C.  sweet   D. smooth

(   ) 2. A. No longer   B. At once

   C.  At all   D. Of course

(   ) 3. A. in   B. through

   C.  by   D. on

(   ) 4. A.  body   B. age

   C.  wish   D. leg

(   ) 5. A.  fact   B. short

   C.  silence   D. place

(   ) 6. A.  liked   B. enjoyed

   C.  practised   D. hated

(   ) 7. A.  better   B. thinner

   C.  weaker   D. fatter

(   ) 8. A.  high   B. narrow

   C.  wide   D. tall

(   ) 9. A.  few   B. many

   C.  much   D. little

(   ) 10. A. front   B. end

   C.  head   D. middle

Answer 1

 【主旨大意】本文講述了 Jeff騎單車減肥，效果明顯， 快樂無窮的故事。

1. A 根據(jù)后一句“He did not wish to get fatter and softer every year. ”推斷，此處所述是他的肌肉很柔軟。故選A.

2. D理解前后句可知，Jeff很樂意減肥，推斷他樂意地答應了。

3. C “乘小汽車”用介詞by,固定搭配。

4. B句意:Jeff的妻子對Jeff說，在你這樣的年齡再去學騎車是很困難的。at one’s age意為“在某人的年齡”。故選   B.

5. A句意:事實上，對于Jeff而言，再次騎自行車不是太難。in fact意為“事實上”。故選A.

6. C句意：但是現(xiàn)在他每天晚上都練習騎自行車。

7. B理解前文所述可知，Jeff練習騎自行車主要是為了減肥，變得更瘦點。故選   B.

8. C句意：Jeff發(fā)現(xiàn)有些小路不太窄，但也不是很寬，小汽車不能通過。根據(jù)常識可知，只有寬度夠才能通過小汽車。故選   C.

9. C noise是不可數(shù)名詞，排除修飾可數(shù)名詞的A、B 項，此處意為“噪聲太多”。根據(jù)句意選  C.

10. A根據(jù)常識可知，在紅燈前小汽車停下來，而自行車因為很窄能夠騎到小汽車的前面。故選A.