May is National Bike Month. a month-long event trying to get couch potatoes outside, cars off the roads and subway trains empty. It encourages everyone to get back onto their bicycles to enjoy riding a bike an often as they can during the month (and hopefully longer). May in the beginning summer and warm weather, so why not start right away and enjoy sunshine!
Ride Out to Protect the Environment
Bike month helps everyone make their efforts to improve theenvironment. If you’rebiking to school, you are helping bring down the air pollution. It is the most common form of pollution andby getting your family to stop driving and start riding a bike, you can do your part in improving the air quality.
Count Down Those Calories
Cycling isn’t just good for theenvironment; it’s good for you too. Riding a bicycle burns calories and helps keep you healthy. It not only improves your physical health, but also your mental state of mind. It can really help you be a happier person.
Share the Sunny Summer
So get into that shed, and take out your old bike. Paint the bike blue. Put on a nice coat. Load up a number of songs. Invite a group of friends to get on the bikes and ride this May! Be a fun-in- the-sun child! Enjoy yourself!

【小題1】The second paragraph mainly tells us that riding bicycles       .

A．improves our physical health

B．does good to the environment

C．changes our mental slates of mind

D．helps us enjoy the sunny spring

【小題2】You’re likely to read the article in the        section of a magazine.

A．history	B．geography
C．sports	D．food

【小題3】The writer writes the article to       .

A．a(chǎn)dvise people to lose more weight

B．a(chǎn)sk people to repair and paint the old bikes

C．preventpeople from staying at home watching TV

D．makepeople realize the advantages of riding bicycles