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!

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

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

A.history B.geography

C.sports D.food

3.The writer writes the article to .

A.advise people to lose more weight

B.ask people to repair and paint the old bikes

C.preventpeople from staying at home watching TV

D.makepeople realize the advantages of riding bicycles

These days, we see a lot of shopping festivals. For Chinese shoppers, Singles’ Day is a big one, and it’s on November 11th.In the United States, Black Friday is the most well-known one.

Black Friday always falls on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday. On this day, stores give special deals (特别折扣). Shoppers wake up very early. They wait in line (队伍) at stores before they open, but they might start to wait in line as early as 2 or 3a. m. Sometimes there are too many people. They are not able to get inside the store. Black Friday is not the only shopping festival in the US. Another similar (类似的) holiday is Cyber (网络的) Monday. This day always falls on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Personally, I don’t like any of these holidays. They place too much importance on buying things. I like Buy Nothing Day. The “holiday” falls on the same day as Black Friday. It is an international holiday that is against the trend (趋势) of over-consumption (消费过度).

What do you think about these holidays?

1.On Black Friday, people usually__________ .

A.get up early and wait in front of stores

B.stay at home to keep away from bad luck

C.stay up overnight to shop online

D.get together to celebrate the holiday

2.What does the writer think of these shopping holidays?

A.He doesn’t care about these holidays.

B.He hopes to celebrate these holidays on another day

C.He likes these holidays and celebrates them every year

D.He thinks they can cause the problem of over-consumption.

3.How many holidays are mentioned (提及) in the story?

A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six

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