Question

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

Answer 1

1B  2C  3D