Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Will the coronavirus bike boom lead to greener cities?
The coronavirus pandemic (新冠疫情) has led to an explosion of interest in bikes and biking. With the pandemic 【小题1】 (continue) to spread, people began looking for ways of getting around that didn’t involve crowded forms of public transportation. Because biking happens in the open air, and the chance of catching the coronavirus while riding 【小题2】 (be) very low, biking is seen as a safe way to travel.
In many places, governments are encouraging bike use. In Italy, for example, the government itself is offering up to $575 for people to buy new bikes, while France will chip in $55 to help riders with their bike repair costs.
Families appreciate biking, too. With schools 【小题3】 (close), and kids unable to hang out with their friends, biking is a welcome activity. For many people, 【小题4】 encourages them to ride bikes is that biking is fun.
But bikes are also practical. Experts say that for people in some cities, roughly 60% of their trips can be made by bike. Many cities are seeing this as an opportunity 【小题5】 (make) their streets safer and greener. Cities around the world are adding miles and miles of bike lanes 【小题6】 their streets to encourage biking.
New York says it will close off up to 100 miles of roads so they 【小题7】 be used by bikers and walkers. Oakland, California plans to close 74 miles to traffic, 【小题8】 accounts for almost 10% of the streets in the city. Paris has set up over 400 miles of new bike lanes. Cars and trucks 【小题9】 (ban) from 75 miles of streets in Bogota, Colombia.
【小题10】 many of these bikes lanes are only being added for the time being, if changes in biking habits become permanent, they could seriously cut down car traffic and help make cities a lot greener.
