怎样提高初中英语阅读水平
初中英语教学大纲的一项具体要求是：“侧重培养阅读能力，为进一步学习和运用英语切实打好基础。”因而提高阅读能力是培养语言交际能力的重要方式。
一、提高初中英语阅读水平，首先应该结合课文的阅读材料进行教学
阅读课不同于听说课等其它课型课文的教学，阅读课课文篇幅长，老师如何能上好，使学生感到轻松而愉快呢？
1.课前预习。预习是一个自学过程，在预习前教师把本课要求告诉学生，学生根据教师的要求查阅生词、预习课文及语法要点。
2.课堂教学。（1）简洁导入，形成悬念，激发阅读愿望。根据不同的阅读材料，教师可设计不同的导入方式，以达到培养学生各种阅读技能的目的。这就要求教师进行充分的课前构思和准备。精心准备是一堂课成功的前提，精心准备的关键是用最简便的方法在最短的时间内激发学生阅读的愿望。新课导入的方式是多样化的。教师往往运用启发手段，如问答、讨论、听有关材料、看有关插图或是片段并提问等引入本课话题。带着问题听录音磁带，听过之后，组成四人或两人一组展开讨论，举手回答问题，并让学生大声地
通读课文。师生间双向提问能使师生关系更加和谐、融洽，从而调动学生学习英语的主动性和积极性，同时更激发了学生学习英语的兴趣。（2）点面启发，层层深入，激活阅读思维。在阅读教学中，教师通过简洁导入，让学生进入阅读的心理准备之后，承上启下是阅读课的主体活动环节。这一环节的重点是要求教师能够从多角度、多层面启发学生思维，拓宽视野。其目的是使学生获取较详细的篇章信息，了解和熟悉课文中的生疏词汇、短语、结构等。要根据不同的文章体裁特征，帮助学生提高阅读理解能力。
二、积累单词，培养语感
我们都知道，单词是学习英语的基础，无论是阅读、听说、写作都离不开单词的积累。我们在平时阅读中应该学会去积累单词，就像我们平时在阅读中文的时候会不自觉地学习一些新的词汇一样，比如非典、申奥等等，都是原来很少说到而慢慢学会的。再一点就是在欣赏内容、欣赏文字的同时，去培养一种语言的感觉，就像我们平时不怎么费脑子就脱口说中文一样。
三、培养阅读技巧，养成理解性阅读习惯
要培养学生的信息把握能力、全文归纳能力，并使其养成良好的阅读习惯。
在阅读过程中，难免会遇到一些不认识的字、词、句等障碍，如何处理这些障碍直接关系到阅读速度和理解的准
确度。可以从标题入手猜测文章大致内容或联系上、下文来推敲体会，根据构词法猜词义，很多词是由词干加前缀或后缀构成的；还可以根据整个句子来推断生词的含义，可根据文中、句中的同义、反义、同等、同位关系作出判断。这些都是提高阅读能力有效的方法和技巧，可对学生进行有意识的训练。
四、要提高阅读速度
一方面要求学生眼脑直映阅读材料，克服不阅读的习惯；另一方面要掌握快速阅读技巧。
1.略读。指粗略地阅读语言材料的面式读法。即通过对文章标题和首尾句的阅读，对文章的内容结构有一个整体的印象，让学生在短时间内了解作者的意图或文章所要涉及的问题。
2.跳读。指带着明确的目的寻找特定信息，忽略无关内容的点式阅读。跳读适用于细节检索式问题。阅读课前的问题常可以用来训练跳读技巧，为获得特定的信息而进行符号辨认的过程，让学生很快能抓住中心句，并能对生词作出猜测，以提高学生自学新单词的能力。
3.细读。指学生在对全文有个整体印象的前提下所进行的深入细致的阅读，要求了解各段落的主要意思和文章的细节，在此基础上提出新的问题或观点，发展学生的思维能力。
4.记忆。阅读语言材料时，熟记文中的重要事实、情节是提高阅读理解速度的重要手段。边读边忘，便无法深入全面地理解材料，回视、重读等不良阅读习惯会随之出现。加强记忆能力的训练可以通过背诵重点句型、段落主题句、课文主要段落、结论，也可以在规定的时间之内要求学生阅读一段文章，然后复述该段文章的主要内容。
五、通过平时的训练，提高应试技巧
中考阅读理解主要考查学生综合运用所学语言知识的能力，包括阅读理解能力、概括推理能力、对材料的筛选及信息的搜寻能力等。试题所选的阅读文章体裁和题材多样，信息量大，学生在做阅读理解题时可从以下三步着手：
1.浏览全文，掌握全貌。先通读一遍全文，摸清脉络，了解主旨。记叙性的文章，要把有关的人物、时间、事件、地点、原因找出来，这就抓住了文章的全貌。说明文要理清说明的顺序、文章的结构，抓住全文的中心思想和段落的主题句。
2.根据题意，初选答案。带着问题再读文章，仔细审题，领会测试要求，针对不同难度的问题确定相应的解题方法。直接理解型或信息搜寻型题目，可以通过通读全文，了解文中所叙述的重要事实或细节，解答出来，有的甚至可以从文章的原句中直接找到答案。
3.重读原文，验证答案。做完题目，要把文章再读一
（一）初中英语阅读理解 Little Tom down the street calls our dog "The keep dog".Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say" Seep", it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always bringing things home for us to keep! I'll tell you about some of them. Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk. We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a moment Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded(点头)and held my nose. "What do you think it is?" "It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry." "Along came Zip. And good-bye shoe!" I said."We should take it back." "We can't ".said my sister. "Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog!" 1.The writer and Mary didn't know______. A.what Zip's first present was B.how Zip carried its first present home C.who owned Zip's first present D.what Zip's first present was made of 2.Tom calls Zip "the keep dog"because ______. A.the dog likes keeping things B.the dog likes playing with shoes C.he doesn't know the dog's name D.he can't pronounce the word "sheep"well 3.What made the shoe strange was ______. A.its colour B.its smell C.its size D.that it was a silk one 4.The word "keep"in the last sentence means "_____" A.keeping things for itself B.bringing things for other to keep C.not letting it run about D.taking care of a small child 5.We can know from the reading that the dog _____. A. likes to give presents to people B.has been kept in at the writer's home C.has brought some trouble D.likes to be called "the keep dog" Key: 1.C 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.C
初中英语阅读理解--7选5专项练习 （1） While lead （铅） poisoning is serious, parents can take steps to reduce the risk for theirChildren 1 Take Notes : start by checking to see if you own any items recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Get rid of any toys with chipped paint, or other broken and damaged parts. Not sure it contains lead 2 Clean Up : to avoid leaf exposure from sources in the home, keep floors and other play areas clean and free of dust and pieces. 3 Store toys off the floor in a clean place. And if you live in house with lead pipes, running cold water for a few minutes and using a water filter (过滤器) can reduce lead levels. Buy Smart : avoid no-name produce and be careful when you buy items at dollar stores, street fairs, thrift stores or yard sales. 4 Even if they don’t contain lead, they could become a choking hazard(危险). Also make sure the arts and crafts supplies you buy are non-toxic and designed for children’s use. Get Tested : children with lead poisoning may not have easily recognizable symptoms. 5 This might mean that there will be a lot of tests that turn out normal, but it’s better than sitting around and worrying. Testing is especially important if you and your children live in a home with peeling paint or if your home was painted before 1978, when the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the sale of lead-based paints.
详解阅读题--选词 One day, John was back home after work. He found that his wife was shaking their daughter who was only half a year old. She said "Da-Dy" to the baby many times. John felt very happy because he thought his wife chose the word "Dady" to teach their baby. During one night several weeks later, John and his wife were waken up by the cry "Dady". His wife said to him, "Darling, she is calling you." Then she turned to sleep. Notes: (1) shake v.摇晃 (2) wake up唤醒；吵醒 Exercises: 根据短文填空： ① John was back home _____work. ② He found his wife was _____their daughter who was only half a ear old. ③ She said "Da-Dy" _____ the baby many times.
④ During on night several weeks later, John and his wife were waken _____ by the cry "Dady". ⑤ Then she turned _____sleep. 117.选词 一天下班回家，约翰发现妻子在摇半岁的女儿，嘴里反复念道：“爸-爸。”约翰心里感到美滋滋的，他的妻子选择了“爸爸”这个词首先教孩子。 几周后的一天夜里，约翰和妻子被一阵哭声惊醒了，“爸-爸！”“她在叫你，亲爱的。”妻子说，然后翻身竟自睡了。 练习参考答案： ① after ② shaking ③ to ④ up ⑤ to 初一英语阅读技巧 阅读理解是英语学习中一个很重要的方面，它反映了学生直接应用英语的能力。英语试题中对学生阅读能力的测试主要通过完形填空和阅读理解两种题型。今天就阅读理解这一题型加以解析。 阅读理解题一般有以下几种形式： 1)根据短文内容，判断正、误 2)根据短文内容，选择最佳答案
（21） A Clever Bird A man has a bird. It is very clever. Every day the man speaks to the bird.“Hello!”he says. “Hello!”the bird answers.“What are you doing?”says the man.“What are you doing?”says the bird. The man is not at home one day. A thief comes in. He is taking many things.“Hello!”The thief hears the bird's words.“What are you doing?”The thief is very afraid，so he does not take any things and runs out of the house. 1. The man teaches the bird ________. A. how to say something B. how to sing songs C. how to eat something D. how to dance 2. The bird is ________. A. very nice B. very clever C. very beautiful D. very silly(傻的) 3. The man speaks to the bird ________. A. sometimes B. once a week C. every week D. every day 4. The thief is taking ________ things from the house. A. a few B. a little C. a lot of D. some 5. The thief ________ out of the room. A. walks B. comes C. runs D. goes 参考答案 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. C (22 ) What Are Stars Like? Have you ever wondered about the stars? In some ways，stars are like people. They are born. They grow old. And they die. A star is born from dust and gas. Slowly the dust and gas make a ball. The ball gets very hot. Then it starts to give off light. The young star grows into a giant. Many years go by. The older star begins to get small again. At last its light goes out. The star's life is over. 1. Dust and _________ make a star. A. gas B. snow C. rain 2. This story tells about _________. A. old people B. the life of a star C. the number of stars in the sky 3. In the first part of the story，what does the word “wondered”mean? A. moved B. looked at C. asked yourself 4. Stars give off light because they are very _________.
Passage 1 When Christopher Columbus landed on the then unnamed Costa Rica in 1502, he saw many Indians wearing gold earrings. So he thought the land must be rich in gold. He named the place Costa Rica, which means “rich coast” in Spanish. Though little gold was found, Costa Rica today is indeed rich with coffee and bananas. Coffee is the most important product in Costa Rica and most of it is exported (出口) to other countries like America and West Germany. Bananas are the country’s second most important export. Costa Ricans also grow many other crops such as fruits, corn and beans for their own use. Costa Ricans love colors and their houses are painted in bright colors. Education is very important to the Costa Ricans. Almost every village has a school and education is a must for children between seven and fourteen years of age. Boys and girls go to separate (单独的) schools. Classes begin in March and end in November. The other three months of the year are harvest time and the children have to help their parents to pick coffee beans. 1. What’s the main idea of the first paragraph? A. How Columbus found Costa Rica. B. How Costa Rica got its name. C. What the Costa Ricans wore. D. What language the Costa Ricans spoke. 2. The Costa Ricans may NOT paint their houses ______. A. pink and red B. grey and black C. blue and green D. yellow and orange 3. In Costa Rica, boys and girls between seven and fourteen ______. A. must go to school B. study in the same school C. do not have to go to school at all D. can choose to stop schooling at any time 4. From December to February, school children in Costa Rica ______. A. have lessons every day B. have their examinations C. help their parents pick coffee beans D. help their parents decorate their houses 5. This passage is mainly about ______. A. Christopher Columbus B. Costa Rica C. some products from Costa Rica D. the education of Costa Rica 答案1-5 BBACB Passage 2 Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri?鄄beri. He was going there to try and find a cure. At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (细菌) caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate —refined white rice (精炼米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery —that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (维生素). The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food. Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills. 6. The underlined word “cure” in Paragragh 1 probably means ______. A. a medical treatment B. a kind of vitamin C. a kind of germ D. a kind of rice 7. Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to ______. A. spend his holiday B. find ways to grow better crops C. do some research about the island D. h8lp the Javanese with their illness 8. Why did Christian Eijkman raise some chickens?
初中英语阅读理解练习题及解析 一、阅读理解 1．根据短文内容出选择正确答案。 A A farmer had a brother in town who was a gardener, and his brother had a garden full of the finest fruit trees. So his skill and his beautiful trees were famous everywhere. One day the farmer went into the town to visit his brother, and was surprised at the trees that grew quite well. "Look, my brother," said the gardener. "I will give you an apple tree, the best from my garden, and you, and your children, and your children's children will enjoy it." Then the gardener called his workmen and ordered them to take up the tree and carry it to his brother's farm. They did so, and the next morning the farmer began to wonder where he should plant it. "If I plant it on the hill," he said to himself, "the wind might catch it and shake down the delicious fruit before it is ripe. If I plant it close to the road, passersby will see it and take away the apples--but if I plant it too near the door of my house, my children may pick the fruit." So, after he had thought the matter over, he planted the tree behind his barn （谷仓）. Time passed, but the tree had no fruit the first year, nor the second-then the farmer called his brother. When the gardener came, the farmer said angrily, "You have cheated me, and given me a useless tree instead of a fruitful one. This is the third year and still it brings out nothing but leaves! " The gardener laughed and said, "See where the tree was planted, it has no sun or warmth. How could you expect flowers and fruit?" （1）From the passage, we can see the farmer planted the apple tree A. behind his barn B. on the hill C. close to the road D. near his house （2）The underlined word "ripe" means "__________" in Chinese. A. 挂果 B. 成熟 C. 开花 D. 成长 （3）What is NOT mentioned in the fifth paragraph? A. What happened to the apple tree. B. Why the farmer got angry with his brother. C. What kind of man the farmer was. D. Why the farmer called his brother. （4）Which of the following is NOT true? A. The farmer's brother had a garden full of the finest fruit trees. B. The gardener gave his brother the best apple tree from his garden. C. No flowers, fruit or leaves were on the apple tree. D. The farmer thought his brother gave him a useless tree. （5）What do you know from the end of the story?
2020初三英语阅读理解及答案 下面有一篇文章，希望同学们用10分钟将此题做完，然后对照讲解找到准确的答案。 Passage 1 If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星). A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels. If a comet isn’t a sta r, what is it then? Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail. Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see. An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because
初中英语阅读理解练习题 A friend of mine was fond of drawing horse. He drew the horses very well,but he always began the tail. Now it is the Western rule to begin at the head of the horse, that is why I was surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly（肚子）or the foot of the horse, if he really knows his business. And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people’s rule.They make their own rules. Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar(奇特的) to himself; and the peculiarity means only that he finds it more easy to work in that way. Now the very same thing is true to literature(文学). And the question, "How shall I begin?" only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you are not yet experienced(有经验的) enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more experienced you will never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail --that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning. 1. A friend of the writer’s drew the horses ____. A. very well B. in the way of western rule C. in the way of his own rule D. all of the above 2. The writer was surprised because ____. A. the artist began to draw at the head of the horse B. the artist began to draw at the tail of the horse C. the artist made his own rule D. the artist did not follow other people’s rule 3. You are not yet experienced because ____. A. you don’t know where to begin B. you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail
初中英语阅读理解和完形填空解题技巧及练习
一．初中英语阅读理解的解题技巧 阅读理解也是中考英语题的必考题目之一，本题型旨在考查学生阅读，理解的能力，几年来，中考英语题中的阅读理解材料新，题材丰富，考查学生综合推断能力，根据语篇猜单词意思的能力的力度加大，也考查学生关注细节的能力。所以学生往往要么没能正确理解语篇中某些句子的意思，在细节题上丢分，要么就是对语篇的整体把握不够，在综合题或者推断题方面丢分。那么到底怎么做好阅读理解这一题型呢？我将从以下三个方面谈论这个问题： 一、解题思路 （一）先读问题，弄清考查要点，以便能带着问题看文章，这样会心中有数，有的放矢。在读题的时候划出题目的关键词。 （二）快速浏览全文，掌握全貌，注意发现与问题有关的信息，如果时间紧，至少要扫视一下起首段和尾段。再把标题和文章内容结合起来想一想，这样全文大意便清楚了。此时，不要忙于答题。 （三）细读原文，捕捉相关信息词，掌握短文细节内容。这是解题的关键，应特别注意以下几点： 1．抓住四个"W"和一个"H"，就是边读边用铅笔做些标记，把What (事件)，When （时间），Where（地点），Why（原因），How（经过）划出来。抓住了四个“W”和一个“H”，就抓住了文章的全貌，一些直接性的问题便可解决。 2．抓住连接词及起关键作用的副词、代词、介词、插入语等。因为这些词具有因果，让步，递进，转折，指代，列举及承上启下等各种连接上下文的特殊功能。这对考生分清文章层次，辨明各种关系，了解人物心理，推断作者意图，进行逻辑推理等手段来分析难点，都具有举足轻重的作用。 3．注意领会文章的寓意。 4．根据题意，初选答案。这一步须仔细审题，领会测试要求，确定解题方法。对那些明显的，有把握的题可以断然确定，不必把其余三个答案再作推敲而浪费时间：有些略难的题，应再查阅短文（不是重读一遍），迅速找出依据，予以排除。常用的解题方法有如下几种： ①直接解题法。即从原文中直接找出答案。 ②归纳解题法。对于不能从原文中直接找出答案的可在把握全文中心和线索的前题下进行概括、归纳得出正确答案。 ③综合推理法。读者需统观全文，认真分析，综合推理及至计算，最后归纳出正确答案。 题干中有"suggest, conclude, conclusion, probably, reason, because, according to“等字眼时，属于推断概括型，考查内容着眼于全篇，考生应具备一定的分析归纳，推理等逻辑思维能力。 ④捕捉关键词。在阅读时应该注意与问题相关的同义词，近义词，反义词或同位词等信息词来得出正确答案。
小议如何提高初中学生的英语阅读能力 【摘要】初中学生已具备了一定的英语词汇量和简单的阅读能力，在中考中，英语阅读题占考题的三分之一，怎样才能提高学生的英语阅读能力呢？结合我自己多年来的教学经历，我将从以下几个方面去谈谈我的想法。 【关键词】提高初中英语阅读能力 一、激发学生的阅读兴趣 兴趣是最好的老师，是提高学生阅读能力的有效途径。积极培养初中生英语学习兴趣，在英语课堂内，教师应将主动权交还给学生，时刻关注学生情感态度的发展，利用多种形式的教学方式，激发学生积极主动地参与课堂的各项活动，与老师进行良好的互动，从而达到提高学生阅读水平的目的。 二、掌握丰富的词汇、句型，为阅读打下坚实的基础 词汇、句型是阅读的基础，让学生牢记词汇和句型，能提高阅读的效率。在阅读过程中减少阻碍。首先，要掌握好课堂内的词汇，单纯的记忆单词，容易忘记。将单词放在句子中，不仅记住了单词，也记住了单词的用法。其次丰富的词汇来源于大量的阅读。通过阅读不同题材、类型的文章，获得词汇、句型。 三、提供丰富课外阅读素材，扩大学生视野 教师根据学生现有的词汇、语法，选择合适的课外阅读。选材我遵循取材由浅入深，从简到难的原则。我向学生推荐的材料起初是
一些幽默故事，词汇量在100左右，生词率不超过2%，然后逐渐向一些短篇的童话故事系列集过渡。让学生对阅读产生兴趣，有求知，使他们体会到完成任务的成功感。同时我指导学生查字典，极力表扬那些勤使用字典的学生。督促学生用脑思考，挖掘文章的深层含义。 四、合理利用教材，指导阅读方法。 在指导学生阅读时，教师应尽可能根据不同的题材设计不同的阅读要求，以培养学生的阅读技能。在阅读较长篇目的文章时，指导学生运用泛读的学习方法，抓住文章的主旨大意，重点了解这篇文章的发生时间、地点、人物、原因、事件等，指导学生重点是抓住文章的开头和结尾，有时文章的主旨是题目，或者是开头或者是结尾。在掌握了主旨大意后，可采用搜寻式阅读，对于每行的东西只读关键词，非关键词不用注意，对关键词也是一扫而过。关键词是指主语、谓语、宾语、文章标题、引号部分、粗体字、黑体字、大写字、斜体字、划线部分；承接语、过渡词、代词、动词、形容词等。在读完文章、了解文章大意后，还要向自己提出更高的要求，那就是根据作者使用的语言、叙述的事实、引用例证、人物的对话及动作、心理活动的描写等推断出作者写这篇文章的意图是什么，他想要说明什么问题，表达什么观点及持有什么样的态度。这是一个通过表面文字推测文章深层结构含义的判断、推理过程，它能推动学生积极地思考，培养较高的理解能力、准确的判断能力和果断
A.own private spaces by living in houses B.have one corner of their own in public places C.realize the importance of “space” in communication D.create their private spaces by talking with local people 答案:BDCCC (二) Every year there is a Spring Festival in China. Usually it is in January or February. It is the most important festival in China. So before it comes, everyone has to prepare things. They buy pork, beef, chicken, fruits and many other things. And they often make a special kind of food—“dumplings”. It means “come together”. On the day before the festival，parents buy new clothes for their children. Children also buy presents for their parents. On the Spring Festival Eve（除夕）all the family members come back to their hometown. This is a happy moment. Some sing and dance, some play cards and others get the dinner ready. When they enjoy the meal, they give each other the best wishes for the coming year. They all have a good time. ( )6. Which is the most important festival in China? A.TheMid-Autumn Festival. B.The Spring Festival. C.Children’s Day. ( )7. When is the Chinese Spring Festival usually celebrated? A. In March or April. B. In May or June. C. In January or February. ( )8.is the special kind of food for the Spring Festival in China. A. Chicken B. Dumpling C. Fish ( )9. What’s the meaning of the food “dumplings” for Chinese people in the Spring Festival? A. Look up. B. Help yourself. C. Come together. ( )10. The family when they are having dinner together on the Spring Festival Eve. A. give each other the best wishes B. buy each other presents C. sing，dance and play cards全品中考网 【答案】6—10 BCBCA (三) More and more people like bicycling and it is no surprise. It is fun, healthy and good for the environment. Maybe that’s why there are 1.4 billion bicycles and only 400 million cars on roads worldwide today. Bikes can take you almost anywhere, and there is no oil cost! Get on a bicycle and ride around your neighborhood. You may discover something new all around you. Stopping and getting off a bike is easier than stopping and getting out of your car. You can bike to work and benefit(受益)from the enjoyable exercise without polluting the environment. You don’t even have to ride all the way. Folding (折叠) bikes work well for people who ride the train. Just fold the bike and take it with you. You can do the same on an airplane. A folding bike can be packed in a suitcase. You can also take a common bike with you when you fly. But be sure to look for information by getting on airline websites. Not all airlines are bicycle-friendly to travelers. Health Benefits of Bicycling: ?It helps to prevent heart diseases.Bicycling helps to control your weight. A 15-minute bike ride to and from work three times a week burns off five kilos of fat in a year. Bicycling can improve your mood (心情). Exercise like bicycling has been shown to make people feel better, more relaxed and self-confident. Bicycling is healthier than driving. ( )11. From the passage, we know that bicycling is becoming very . A. surprising B. exciting C. expensive D. popular