When Mr．Holland was a young man，he played a lot of soccer，and he was thin and very healthy．But then he worked in an office for many years，and he drove to work in a car．So when he was forty，he was very fat．He did not wish to get fatter every year．
One day one of his friends said to him，"Would you like to be thinner，F(xiàn)red？""Of course I would，"Mr．Holland answered．
"Well，"his friend said，"Stop going to your office by car，and get a bicycle．"
When Mr．Holland got home，he told Mrs．Holland about it．"It's very hard to learn to ride a bicycle at your age，"said Mrs．Holland．
But it was not too hard for Mr．Holland to do it．He usually sat in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening，but now he bought a bicycle and practiced riding it every evening．He
hoped that it would help him to get thinner，and he had great fun doing it．
He found little roads．They were not really very narrow（狹窄的），but were too narrow for cars，and there he got away from the noises（噪音） of the city，which were becoming too much for him．They were not really very loud，but they were too loud for Mr．Holland．
Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle．Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light（燈），and he went past them to the front，because his bicycle was narrow．Then he was very
happy．
Yesterday he stopped at the red light，and a man came up behind him on another bicycle．He stopped too and said to Mr．Holland，"Did the police take your driving license（駕照） away too？"
（1）How did Mr．Holland become fatter？

C

C

A．He worked very hard．
B．He got older and older．
C．He took less exercise．
D．He ate too much food．
（2）From the passage we know

C

C

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A．Mr．Holland's friends are all thinner than him
B．Mr．Holland's friend bought a bicycle for him
C．Mr．Holland practiced riding the bicycle in the evening
D．Mr．Holland found it was hard to learn to ride a bicycle
（3）Why did Mr．Holland learn to ride a bicycle？

A

A

A．Because he wanted to be thinner．
B．Because he disliked his car．
C．Because he had nothing else to do．
D．Because he enjoyed riding it．
（4）With the bicycle Mr．Holland could

B

B

．
A．reach his office earlier
B．go on narrower and quieter roads
C．travel faster than cars
D．keep on going even the light was red
（5）Which of the following is true？

D

D

A．Most of Mr．Holland's friends walked to work．
B．Mrs．Holland was not as healthy as Mr．Holland．
C．Mr．Holland met a policeman on his way to work yesterday．
D．The man rode a bike because the police took away his driving license．