Many people want to stop using cars, as cars cause air and noise pollution. They want to use bikes instead. However, these people often live in large cities. (A)It is so far that they can’t ride bikes from their homes to work, school or the shops.
One solution to this is a bike-sharing programme. With a bike-sharing programme, bikes are kept at different places around the city, and (B)任何人都可以骑它们。 ①
The first bike-sharing programme was started in 1965 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. However, it was not a success because by the end of a month all the bikes had been lost (C)________ stolen. It was not until 1974 that a successful bike-sharing programmeo was started, this time in La Rochelle, France. This programme continues until today. Bike sharing programmes slowly began appearing in Europe over the years, but they did not really start to become popular (D)________ after the year 2000. Today, there are more than 535 popular bike-sharing programmes in the world, with over 500,000 bikes. ② The first of these was started in 2008 in Hangzhou. Now, there are also programmes in so many cities in China.
③ As bike-sharing programmes are quickly becoming popular, soon most cities over the world will have one.
【小题1】将文中画线部分(A)改写为：It’s【小题2】将文中画线部分(B)翻译成英语：
【小题3】在文中(C)和(D)的空白处填入适当的单词：
【小题4】在文中①②③选出能够填入“China also has bike-sharing programmes.”的位置：
【小题5】从文中找出能说明本文大意答案词语：
