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 the environment. If you’re hiking to school, you are helping bring down the air pollution. It is the most common form of pollution and by 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 the environment; 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 hike. Paint the hike 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!

1The 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

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

A.      history           B. geography            C. sports              D. food

3The writer writes the article to       .

A. advise people to lose more weight

B. ask people to repair and paint the old bikes

C.  prevent people from staying at home watching TV

D.   make       people realize the advantages of riding bicycles


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Dont Rest on Your Laurels

Have you ever heard the saying “Don’t rest on your laurels”?“ Laurels” means the achievements you have already got. The saying suggests that you shouldn’t be so satisfied with your achievements that you’ll no longer try to improve.

As to this saying, Mike Perham has set us a good example. Born in 1992 in Hertfordshire, England, Mike was just 14 when he became the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. You might think the achievements are good enough, but Mike doesn’t think so. At the age of 17,he became the youngest person to sail all by himself around the world on a nine-month voyage(航海).

Mike is now 19, and he is still trying his best to break the records and push himself further. For his next adventure, he plans to fly around the world on his own, making him the first person of all ages to both sail and fly around the world.

Mike wants his achievements to encourage young people to realize their dreams. Since his adventures, he has travelled widely, speaking at schools and youth clubs in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia on the theme of “Live the Dream”.

Amazing Facts:

Mike started sailing when he was seven.

His trans-Atlantic crossing began at Gibraltar and ended in Antigua.

His round-the-world yacht(游艇) was called TotallyMoney.com.

Title:Don’t Rest on Your Laurels

Passage outline

Supporting details

The explanation of the saying

“Don’t rest on your laurels" means that you shouldn’t stop (1)         only because of your achievements.

Amazing facts

• At the age of 7, Mike started sailing.

• At the age of 14,sailing across the Atlantic Ocean made

       Mike become the (2)            one who set a record.

• At the age of 17, Mike had a nine-month voyage of sailing (3)               around the world.

Present situation      

Mike is 19 now. He is trying his best to break the records. His (4)           to fly round the world by himself will make him the first person to both sail and fly.

Mike’s achievements

Mike’s speeches give young people courage to realize their dreams.

        

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