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1、2013高考英語（閱讀理解）考前沖刺訓(xùn)練（1） 及答案解析 (第***篇) Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be“ like a magic carpet...You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused：“ But you’ll always be limited by the size o

2、f the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.” It was a rare—indeed unique—occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor，William Henry James Grout，did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into

3、 two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag，a leather case. Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train.Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train tra

4、vel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage：in Grout’s day ，tyres were solid，which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated(充氣的) ty

5、re. So，in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse(橢圓). Throughout，the tyre remains inflated. Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel ma

6、ke it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100-years-ago：there’s plenty still to go for.

7、Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than ￡1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of course—as hand baggage. Folding wheels would make all manner of thin

8、gs possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress. [語篇解讀]　一位發(fā)明家想要發(fā)明折疊自行車的話，最大的困難是如何折疊輪子。其實(shí)19世紀(jì)的一位發(fā)明家在當(dāng)年已經(jīng)做到了，令人欣喜的是現(xiàn)在又有人想出了折疊輪子的辦法。我們都在期待著。 1. We can infer from Paragraph 1 that thc Brompton folding bike________. A. was portable B. had a folding

9、 wheel C. could be put in a pocket D. looked like a magic carpet [解析]　推理判斷題。這種自行車的特點(diǎn)是便于攜帶，而不是呈地毯狀或?yàn)榈氖悄芊胚M(jìn)口袋，故不能選C或D。 [答案]　A 2. We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable________. A. were difficult to separate B. could be split into 6 pieces C. were fitted with solid tyre

10、s D. were hard to carry on a train [解析]　推理判斷題。從文章第三段“And importantly...in Grout’s day，tyres were solid...”可得知答案。他的折疊方法只適合當(dāng)時(shí)的固體輪胎。 [答案]　C 3. We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention________. A. kept the tyre as a whole piece B. was made into production soon C. left little room fo

11、r improvement D. changed our views on bag design [解析]　推理判斷題。從文章第四段“squashed into...like a slender ellipse”可得知答案。 [答案]　A 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text? A. Three folding bike inventors B. The making of a folding bike C. Progress in folding bike design D. Ways of separating a bike wheel [解析]　主旨大意題。全文講述了不同時(shí)期的三位發(fā)明家對(duì)折疊自行車的探索。故選C。 [答案]　C ****************************************************結(jié)束