题目
Five days a week, 28-year-old Ebony Smith arrives at Changing Gears Bike Shop at 10:50 a.m., ten minutes before opening. Walking into the shop, she turns on the lights, opens the register, and reviews the repair orders. For the next several hours she will repair bikes with professional skill and care, and guide customers through bike choices like an experienced rider, learning about their needs and preferences, and helping them to find the perfect fit. Although Smith had almost no experience riding a bike and didn’t even enjoy riding one when she first came to Changing Gears, she has stayed in the position for nearly a decade now, and her customers are thankful to her heartfelt assistance. What’s more, many of the shop visitors are youth from families living in low-income housing named Alameda Point. Smith lived in this neighborhood throughout her childhood, and to these youngsters and families she is a positive role model-someone determined to succeed in spite of educational and financial struggles. When she first began at Changing Gears at 19 years old, Smith was living with her parents, who struggled to make a living. She had failed to earn a high school diploma when she didn’t pass California’s high school exit exam. However, when a three-month job training position opened at the bike shop in 2008, Smith took a chance to, as she says, “turn her life around”. She signed up and was quickly hired. Smith is just one of the thousands of Changing Gears’ employees around the world, and her continued success at Changing Gears embodies the shop’s duty to “operate a bicycle-based social enterprise that meets the needs of the underprivileged of our local area”. In addition, the shop has a strong environmental focus, which includes bicycle reuse and recycling. Throughout the years Changing Gears has also engaged youth and families in bicycle field trips and provided free bicycle parking and repair service at local farmers’ markets in order to encourage bike riding as a practical and green form of transportation. Through its blending(协调)of effective small business practices with a social and environmental duty, Changing Gears stays inspired to use bicycles as a vehicle for social change. 【小题1】What can we learn about Ebony Smith? A．She is a bike shop owner. B．She is a professional rider. C．She has a good knowledge of bikes. D．She has a lot of shopping experience. 【小题2】What helped Ebony Smith get into the career? A．Family support. B．Personal interest. C．Training opportunity. D．High school education. 【小题3】What does the underlined word “embodies” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A．Be an example of. B．Be similar to. C．Be the reason for. D．Be modeled after. 【小题4】Which of the following is Changing Gears’ duty? A．Making bike donations. B．Offering help to the poor people. C．Improving bike-riding techniques. D．Drawing people’s attention to bike enterprises.
Five days a week, 28-year-old Ebony Smith arrives at Changing Gears Bike Shop at 10:50 a.m., ten minutes before opening. Walking into the shop, she turns on the lights, opens the register, and reviews the repair orders. For the next several hours she will repair bikes with professional skill and care, and guide customers through bike choices like an experienced rider, learning about their needs and preferences, and helping them to find the perfect fit.
Although Smith had almost no experience riding a bike and didn’t even enjoy riding one when she first came to Changing Gears, she has stayed in the position for nearly a decade now, and her customers are thankful to her heartfelt assistance. What’s more, many of the shop visitors are youth from families living in low-income housing named Alameda Point. Smith lived in this neighborhood throughout her childhood, and to these youngsters and families she is a positive role model-someone determined to succeed in spite of educational and financial struggles.
When she first began at Changing Gears at 19 years old, Smith was living with her parents, who struggled to make a living. She had failed to earn a high school diploma when she didn’t pass California’s high school exit exam. However, when a three-month job training position opened at the bike shop in 2008, Smith took a chance to, as she says, “turn her life around”. She signed up and was quickly hired.
Smith is just one of the thousands of Changing Gears’ employees around the world, and her continued success at Changing Gears embodies the shop’s duty to “operate a bicycle-based social enterprise that meets the needs of the underprivileged of our local area”.
In addition, the shop has a strong environmental focus, which includes bicycle reuse and recycling. Throughout the years Changing Gears has also engaged youth and families in bicycle field trips and provided free bicycle parking and repair service at local farmers’ markets in order to encourage bike riding as a practical and green form of transportation.
Through its blending(协调)of effective small business practices with a social and environmental duty, Changing Gears stays inspired to use bicycles as a vehicle for social change.
【小题1】What can we learn about Ebony Smith?
【小题2】What helped Ebony Smith get into the career?
【小题3】What does the underlined word “embodies” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
【小题4】Which of the following is Changing Gears’ duty?
Although Smith had almost no experience riding a bike and didn’t even enjoy riding one when she first came to Changing Gears, she has stayed in the position for nearly a decade now, and her customers are thankful to her heartfelt assistance. What’s more, many of the shop visitors are youth from families living in low-income housing named Alameda Point. Smith lived in this neighborhood throughout her childhood, and to these youngsters and families she is a positive role model-someone determined to succeed in spite of educational and financial struggles.
When she first began at Changing Gears at 19 years old, Smith was living with her parents, who struggled to make a living. She had failed to earn a high school diploma when she didn’t pass California’s high school exit exam. However, when a three-month job training position opened at the bike shop in 2008, Smith took a chance to, as she says, “turn her life around”. She signed up and was quickly hired.
Smith is just one of the thousands of Changing Gears’ employees around the world, and her continued success at Changing Gears embodies the shop’s duty to “operate a bicycle-based social enterprise that meets the needs of the underprivileged of our local area”.
In addition, the shop has a strong environmental focus, which includes bicycle reuse and recycling. Throughout the years Changing Gears has also engaged youth and families in bicycle field trips and provided free bicycle parking and repair service at local farmers’ markets in order to encourage bike riding as a practical and green form of transportation.
Through its blending(协调)of effective small business practices with a social and environmental duty, Changing Gears stays inspired to use bicycles as a vehicle for social change.
【小题1】What can we learn about Ebony Smith?
| A．She is a bike shop owner. |
| B．She is a professional rider. |
| C．She has a good knowledge of bikes. |
| D．She has a lot of shopping experience. |
| A．Family support. |
| B．Personal interest. |
| C．Training opportunity. |
| D．High school education. |
| A．Be an example of. |
| B．Be similar to. |
| C．Be the reason for. |
| D．Be modeled after. |
| A．Making bike donations. |
| B．Offering help to the poor people. |
| C．Improving bike-riding techniques. |
| D．Drawing people’s attention to bike enterprises. |
题目解答
答案
【答案】
【小题1】C
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】B
【小题1】C
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】B
解析
考查要点：本题主要考查学生对文章细节的理解、词汇猜测能力以及主旨概括能力。
解题思路：
- 细节题需定位关键句，结合选项排除干扰；
- 原因题需关注事件前后的逻辑关系；
- 词义题需结合上下文语境推断词义；
- 主旨题需抓住文章核心表述，匹配选项。
破题关键：
- 锁定人物特征（如Smith的工作内容、背景）；
- 明确因果关系（如培训机会与职业发展的关联）；
- 理解专业术语（如“embodies”需结合上下文逻辑）；
- 提炼机构使命（如“social enterprise”对应服务对象）。
【小题1】What can we learn about Ebony Smith?
关键信息：
- 第一段描述Smith的工作职责：修理自行车、指导顾客选车，体现她对自行车的专业知识。
- 选项C（She has a good knowledge of bikes）与文中“repair bikes with professional skill”“guide customers through bike choices”一致。
干扰项排除： - A（店主）错误，文中未提及；
- B（职业车手）错误，Smith最初不喜欢骑车；
- D（购物经验）无关，文中未涉及。
【小题2】What helped Ebony Smith get into the career?
关键信息：
- 第三段提到Smith通过三个月的岗位培训获得机会，文中明确指出“signed up and was quickly hired”。
- 选项C（Training opportunity）直接对应“job training position”。
干扰项排除： - A（家庭支持）错误，父母经济困难；
- B（个人兴趣）错误，Smith最初不喜欢骑车；
- D（高中教育）错误，她未获得高中文凭。
【小题3】What does the underlined word “embodies” mean?
语境推断：
- 第四段“Smith’s success embodies the shop’s duty”意为“史密斯的成功是店铺使命的体现”。
- “embodies”在此表示具体案例或化身，对应选项A（Be an example of）。
干扰项排除： - B（相似）和D（模仿）未体现逻辑关系；
- C（原因）与上下文因果不符。
【小题4】What is Changing Gears’ duty?
核心表述：
- 第四段明确店铺使命：“meet the needs of the underprivileged”（服务贫困人口）。
- 选项B（Offering help to the poor people）直接对应。
干扰项排除： - A（捐赠自行车）未提及；
- C（提升技术）与文章无关；
- D（宣传企业）偏离核心使命。