Ted Schredd doesn't like cars. He wants people to stop _______ because cars make the air dirty. Ted had a(n) _______.He said, “I'm going to cycle (骑自行车) around North America. I want to show everyone that cycling is a _______ way to get around. If more people ride bikes, the air will be _______.”

He left his _______ with $160 in his pocket. When he _______ San Diego, he met another cyclist. The cyclist _______ Ted to speak at a big meeting about the _______.He said, “We'll buy you a ticket to Texas.” Two hours later, Ted was on a plane to the environmental conference and to a big _______！

While he was at the conference, he met Deanna. It was ________ at first sight! They talked for six hours. The next day, Ted asked Deanna to ________ the trip with him. Deanna said yes, and was on the road with Ted 20 days later!

“It was ________ at first，” said Deanna.“Ted got up ________ every morning, around 6.00am, but I wanted to sleep until noon.” After a few days, they started having fun.________ they cycled from Florida to Montreal and then back to Vancouver, every day was ________.They had free meals in many restaurants, and ________ in people's backyards during the night.________,they made many new friends on the way.

On their way back to Vancouver, they ________ in Edmonton to visit Ted's parents. During the stopover, they got ________.People wished them to grow old and happy together. They now want to ________ a book about the trip.“We want people to know that you can be an environmentalist and still have fun，” Schredd said.

Bike­sharing is a new _______ for short journeys in cities. It is good to the _______ development of the big cities.

A _______ by a company found that shared bikes started the nation’s _______ for bikes again. Now more and more Chinese people are _______ bikes instead of cars to make short journeys in cities.

An engineer of that company says that since the _______ of shared bikes, people have made fewer _______ by car. The love for shared bikes is not only among_______ people, who were born in the 1980s and 1990s, but also among people over sixty.

At weekends, the number of the riders in Shenzhen reaches the _______ of all cities. On ________, the number of people who use shared bikes to travel to work is ________ in Shanghai.

It is said that bike­sharing will help ________ the cities’ environment. It not only helps ________ the traffic problems, but also will help to make more use of space in cities. Take Beijing as an ________, if more people choose shared bikes, an area of five Bird’s Nest stadiums (体育场) will be ________.

Hirikos, a zero—emission car, can travel 75 miles with electricity and can squeeze itself into a small parking spot.

The two—seater is considered as a(n) ________ to bicycles for people who live in urban areas. The car has a unique feature—it can ________ to almost half its size with just the touch of a button—all without ________ the driver and passenger inside. What this means is that up to three and a half of these cute little cars can be ________ in a single parking bay!

The car has no ________. Instead, its windshield doubles up as the doors enabling both the driver and passenger to ________ from the front without any danger of scraping the sidewalk or the one parked in close nearness.

That’s not the only unusual ________ inside this cool car. Instead of the ________ steering wheel and brake, the inventors have fixed a device that ________ an airplane yoke (操纵杆). To speed up or slow down, all the driver has to do is ________ the control stick back and forth.

The best part is that this is not a ________ car, but one that is currently being ________ in Europe. If all goes well, the Hiriko will soon be ________ in Barcelona, Berlin and San Francisco, where the producers plan to sell it to the local citizens. ________, if for some reason its unusual look does not quite ________ you, you can wait for the other two models that are already in pre—production stage!