2016高考英语(二月)阅读理解精选(13)及答案
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Whether you depend on your bike for transportation (交通) or exercise,you'll enjoy these fun facts on this twowheeled vehicle (车辆).
* In 1817,Karl von Drais from Germany invented a horseless carriage that would help him get around faster.The machine became known as the “draisine”,and led to the creation of the modern bicycle.
* The term “bicycle” was not introduced until the 1860s,when it was created in France to describe a new kind of twowheeler.
* Fred A.Birchmore circled the globe by bicycle at the age of 25 in 1935.The whole trip covered forty thousand miles.He rode about 25,000 miles and wore out seven sets of tires (轮胎).
* There are over a half billion bicycles in China.They are the most common means of transportation.Bikes were first brought to China in the late 1800s.
* About 100 million bicycles are made worldwide each year.
* Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all city trips.Europeans bike in cities a lot more often—in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle,30 percent in the Netherlands,and seven out of eight Dutch people over age 15 have a bike.
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