题目内容
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
【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.
