Normal bicycle safety guides usually tell you to wear you helmet(頭盔) and to obey the law in order to avoid being hit on a bike. Is this advice really helpful?

Consider this for a moment: Wearing a helmet will absolutely do nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car. Surely, a helmet might help you if you get hit, but you No.1 goal should be to avoid getting hit. Plenty of cyclists were killed by cars__________. However, if they had ridden without helmets, yet followed the guidelines listed below, they might still be alive today. So they saying that wearing a helmet is the first and last word in bike safety is, to some degree(在一定程度上), wrong.

The most common bike safety advice is “follow the law”. Ridiculously, most people are already aware that it’s stupid to race through a red light at a crossroads. As a result, it’s clear that the “follow the law” advice isn’t that helpful, either. In addition, following the law is not enough to keep you safe. Here’s an example: The law tells you to ride on the right, but if you ride too far to the right, someone started a parked car could open their door right in front of you and motorists pulling out of driveways and parking lots will be less visible. In that case you were following the law, but could still have been hit.

Then what should we remember in order to keep safe when riding a bike? I will tell you about it in the following paragraph.

1.What does the author say about wearing a helmet in the second paragraph?(within 8 words)

_________________________________________________________________________________________

2.Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one?

However, nearly everyone knows that riding through hared traffic light is dangerous.

_________________________________________________________________________________________

3.Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(within 5 words)

_________________________________________________________________________________________

4. List the two regular bike safety guides.(within 8words)

_______________________________________②_______________________________________

5.Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.

__________________________________________________________________________________

 

【答案】

1.It only helps you after you’re hit.

2.Ridiculously, most people are already aware that it’s stupid to race through a red light at a crossroads.

3. when they wore helmets

4. wear a helmet;      follow the law.

5.所以很顯然“遵守交通規(guī)則”這條建議也不是特別有效。

【解析】

試題分析:本文講述的是人們起自行車要想保證自己不出危險(xiǎn)的多個(gè)重要的措施和建議,不僅僅是戴頭盔和遵守規(guī)則。

1. It only helps you after you’re hit.

細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段2,3行Surely, a helmet might help you if you get hit, but you No.1 goal should be to avoid getting hit.可知頭盔只是在發(fā)生事故以后才會(huì)保護(hù)你。

2. Ridiculously, most people are already aware that it’s stupid to race through a red light at a crossroads.

原句表示:幾乎沒有人都在闖紅燈是很危險(xiǎn)的。這和第二段中的Ridiculously, most people are already aware that it’s stupid to race through a red light at a crossroads.是近義句。

3. when they wore helmets

推理題。根據(jù)下一句However, if they had ridden without helmets, yet followed the guidelines listed below, they might still be alive today.可知如果這些人不僅僅是戴頭盔,而且還服從規(guī)則,那么他們可能還活著。說明前句是指很多人帶著頭盔還是被汽車撞死。

4. wear a helmet;      follow the law.

細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段Normal bicycle safety guides usually tell you to wear you helmet(頭盔) and to obey the law in order to avoid being hit on a bike.可知正常人們都知道戴頭盔和遵守規(guī)則是保護(hù)自己的兩個(gè)安全措施。

5.所以很顯然“遵守交通規(guī)則”這條建議也不是特別有效。

本句是指單純第遵守交通規(guī)則也不是很有效。

考點(diǎn):考察教育類短文閱讀

點(diǎn)評(píng):本文講述的是人們起自行車要想保證自己不出危險(xiǎn)的多個(gè)重要的措施和建議,不僅僅是戴頭盔和遵守規(guī)則。本文考查細(xì)節(jié)題為主,細(xì)節(jié)題可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關(guān)的信息?或是其變體。搜查信息在閱讀中非常重要它包括理解作者在敘述某事時(shí)使用的具體事實(shí)、數(shù)據(jù)、圖表等細(xì)節(jié)信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開的細(xì)節(jié)。做這類題一般采用尋讀法?即先讀題,然后帶著問題快速閱讀短文,找出與問題有關(guān)的詞語或句子,再對(duì)相關(guān)部分進(jìn)行分析對(duì)比,找出答案。

 

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