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A growing number of people in London are jumping on their bike to enjoy the benefits of both
saving money on public transport and keeping fit．In a city where buses and trains are expensive and where it can cost eight pounds a day to drive a car, there are plenty of arguments in favor of cycling．
“If you have less than 15 kilometers to travel, the quickest way to get to where you are going is by bike,” said Angus, a Londoner who has used his trusty two-wheeled friend for several years．
1 In the centre of the capital the growth rate is even higher, up 100 percent on the major roads, with 119,000 journeys being made every week last year compared with 59,000 in 2001,according to Transport for London．
2 Frederic Laforge, a 41-year-old Frenchman living in the city, happily pedals(-gr'~)204 2 Frederic Laforge, a 41-year-old Frenchman living in the city, happily pedals(骑车)20 kilos every day to go to work．
Laforge said, “Cars take care; there are far fewer motorbikes and scooters(滑板车)in London than in Paris and, except in the centre, the traffic is lighter． 3 ．
4 Just two percent of all trips are done by bike compared with 28 percent in Amsterdam, 20 percent in Copenhagen, 12 percent in Munich and five percent in Berlin．
There are some 2.6 million subway journeys a day and 5 million bus trips． 5
London is making a big effort to encourage people to cycle．There are already 500 kilos of bicycle routes, typically marked out by a painted line in the road and the goal is to have more than 900 kilos by 2009-2010．
A．With sunny, hot weather in London at the moment, cyclists are everywhere．
B．Adding to the attraction of bikes, people drive more slowly
C．The number of daily trips by bike in London has jumped by 50 percent in the last four years．
D．In addition, when cycling through the parks, it is brilliant．
E．But the subway, the oldest in the world, is unreliable and buses are often packed．
F．Despite the rise in bike users, London still has a long way to go．
G．Bike is most probably the most convenient tool, according to Transport for London．
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阅读理解
It is, perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile men. Right up until comparatively recent times, it was possible, for an intelligent person to acquaint himself with almost every branch of knowledge. Thus, men of genius like Leonardo Da Vinci or Sir Philip Sidney, engaged in many careers at once as a matter of course. Da Vinci was so busy with his numerous inventions that he barely found the time to complete his paintings; Sidney, who died in battle when he was only thirty-two years old, was not only a great soldier, but a brilliant scholar and poet as well. Both these men came very near to fulfilling the Renaissance ideal(文艺复兴时期的典型) of the “universal man”, the man who was proficient as everything.
Today, we rarely, if ever, hear that a musician has just invented a new type of submarine. Knowledge has become divided and sub-divided into countless, narrowlydefined compartments. The specialist is venerated(受尊敬的); the versatile person, far from being admired, is more often regarded with suspicion. The modern world is a world of highly-skilled “experts” who have had to devote the greater part of their lives to a very limited field of study in order to compete with their fellows.
With this high degree of specialization, the frontiers of knowledge are steadily being pushed back more rapidly than ever before. But this has not been achieved without considerable cost. The scientist, who outside his own particular subject is little more than a moron(低能者), is a modern phenomenon; as is the man of letters who is barely aware of the tremendous strides that have been made in technology. Similarly, specialization has indirectly affected quite ordinary people in every walk of life. Many activities which were once pursued for their own sakes, are often given up in despair: they require techniques, the experts tell us, which take a life-time to master. Why learn to play the piano, when you can listen to the world's greatest pianists in your own drawing-room?
Little by little, we are becoming more and more isolated from each other. It is almost impossible to talk to your neighbor about his job, even if he is engaged in roughly the same work as you are. The Royal Society in Britain includes among its members only the most eminent(杰出的) scientists in the country. Yet it is highly disconcerting(窘迫的) to find that even here, as one of its fellows put it, at a lecture only 10％ of the members can understand 50％ of what is being said!
1．In the modern world, the versatile person is ________.
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A．far from being admired
B．venerated
C．not regarded with suspicion
D．great
2．Which of the following is NOT true according to the third paragraph?
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A．The frontiers of knowledge are steadily being pushed back more rapidly than ever before.
B．The scientist who works outside his own particular subject is a genius.
C．Specialization has indirectly affected quite ordinary people in every walk of life.
D．We can listen to the world's greatest pianists without learning to play the piano.
3．In Royal Society in Britain, at a lecture only ________ of the members can understand ________of what is being said.
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