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】本文讲述了 Jeff骑单车减肥，效果明显， 快乐无穷的故事。

1. A 根据后一句“He did not wish to get fatter and softer every year. ”推断，此处所述是他的肌肉很柔软。故选A.

2. D理解前后句可知，Jeff很乐意减肥，推断他乐意地答应了。

3. C “乘小汽车”用介词by,固定搭配。

4. B句意:Jeff的妻子对Jeff说，在你这样的年龄再去学骑车是很困难的。at one’s age意为“在某人的年龄”。故选   B.

5. A句意:事实上，对于Jeff而言，再次骑自行车不是太难。in fact意为“事实上”。故选A.

6. C句意：但是现在他每天晚上都练习骑自行车。

7. B理解前文所述可知，Jeff练习骑自行车主要是为了减肥，变得更瘦点。故选   B.

8. C句意：Jeff发现有些小路不太窄，但也不是很宽，小汽车不能通过。根据常识可知，只有宽度够才能通过小汽车。故选   C.

9. C noise是不可数名词，排除修饰可数名词的A、B 项，此处意为“噪声太多”。根据句意选  C.

10. A根据常识可知，在红灯前小汽车停下来，而自行车因为很窄能够骑到小汽车的前面。故选A.