In the close town of Whitesburg, Kentucky, Mick Polly, who lives with his teenage daughter Carolina in a house, is known as the bike man. Over the past five years, Mick has _______ hundreds of bicycles for poor kids.
One day in 2011, a 13-year-old boy with a _______ bike walked by Mick’s house. “I was working in my garage, and he asked if I could _______ it,” says Mick , now 53. The boy _______ his bike, which had a broken bracket, with Mick, who asked friends on Facebook if they had the missing part. The town’s former police chief saw the _______ and donated two used bicycles. Mick took parts from each to engineer a new set of wheels for the _______.
Soon after, Mick, who _______ a toy business , repaired a bike for the boy’s brother and made one for his sister. _______ spread, and within the year, he had fixed up dozens of bikes for _______ kids whose parents couldn’t ________ to buy new ones.
“ People were ________ bikes day and night,” says Mick. Mick stored the bikes and bike parts in his garage. “I take off the ________ tires or the handlebars or the seats and ________ them,” he says.
To date, the bike man has repaired hundreds of bikes and ________ nearly 700 newly built bikes. They’re ________, but the kids must agree to two things: They’ve got to “remember who’s ________ them’’, and they’ve got to make ________ in school. If a kid’s grades are ________, Mick requires a teacher’s note saying that he is doing his best.
Mick also hopes the bikes will get kids off the ________. “When I was growing up, we all rode our bikes,” he says,” ________ these kids can get some exercise.”
【小题1】A.lost | B.lent | C.found | D.built |
【小题2】A.stolen | B.worn | C.broken | D.shone |
【小题3】【小题4】A.left | B.sold | C.chose | D.paid |
【小题5】A.advertisement | B.report | C.story | D.post |
【小题6】A.bike | B.police | C.boy | D.town |
【小题7】A.quit | B.owned | C.needed | D.expanded |
【小题8】A.Word | B.Gossip | C.Message | D.News |
【小题9】A.polite | B.careful | C.lovable | D.local |
【小题10】A.refuse | B.dare | C.afford | D.fail |
【小题11】A.caring about | B.throwing away | C.dealing with | D.sorting out |
【小题12】A.good | B.round | C.safe | D.solid |
【小题13】A.transport | B.export | C.donate | D.use |
【小题14】A.broken up | B.packed up | C.given away | D.cut out |
【小题15】A.colorful | B.free | C.strong | D.fashionable |
【小题16】A.raising | B.ignoring | C.disturbing | D.tricking |
【小题17】A.apologies | B.judgments | C.efforts | D.discoveries |
【小题18】A.low | B.special | C.different | D.ordinary |
【小题19】A.ground | B.couch | C.loneliness | D.concern |
【小题20】A.Hopefully | B.Luckily | C.Certainly | D.Frankly |