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2015级高一暑假作业检测考试试题（卷） 英 语 满分 100分 ，时间 60分钟 I. 阅读理解（共1小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Bicycles are very popular around the world today. People ride their bicycles for exercise and enjoyment. In some places, people use a bicycle to get to work. In other places, bicycle riding is a very popular exercise to people who live in cities. But who invented the first bicycle? In 1791, a Frenchman named Comte de Sovran invented and owned the first bicycle. Mrs. Sovran rode the bicycle in Paris. The handles燼nd the seat were wooden. This bicycle was very difficult to move. A rider even had to pick up the front wheel to change direction. Finally, the bicycle had no brakes for stopping or pedals for the feet! Riding a燽icycle was a great risk.? In 1817, a German named Baronvon Drais de Sauerburn made the first bicycle better. The seat became爉ore comfortable. The wheel could now change direction. His ride in the forest took only one hour instead爋f three hours on foot, which surprised people at that time.?Sauerburn brought this kind of bicycle from Germany to France. Then Denis Johnson, an Englishman, made a bicycle for women. It had space for their dresses to hang down. But these bicycles still had no brakes爋r pedals, and riders often got hurt. These bicycles and the people who rode them were not very popular.? It took another forty-five years for the bicycle to become popular. More than 100 years later, bicycle riding is more popular than ever. In fact, in India and China, there are still many more bicycles than cars. 1. What can we know about bicycles? A. It was not difficult to ride the first bicycle at all. B. Baronvon Drais de Sauerburn invented the first bicycle. C. The riders could put their feet on the bicycles comfortably in 1791. D. In order to change direction, Mrs Sivrac Had to lift the front wheel. 2. It was a risk to ride the bicycle for women because _________? A. it was hard to control.