This summer the city's Department of Transportation starts a new bike-share program. People ___C1____ live and work in New York will be able to travel ___C2____ (quick) and cheaply between many neighborhoods. This is important. It will make New Yorkers rethink their city and rewrite the mental maps we use to ___C3____ (decide) what is convenient, what is possible. Parks, restaurants and friends who once ___C4____ (seem) beyond reasonable travelling distance on public transportation will seem a lot closer. The possibilities aren"t limitless, but the change will be pretty ___C5____ (impress).

I"ve used a bike to get around New York___C6____ decades. There's great excitement you feel from self-propelled transportation — skateboarding, in-line skating and walking as well as biking; New York ___C7____ (have) good public transportation, but you just don"t get the kind of rush I"m talking about on a bus or subway train. I enjoy biking because it is ___C8____ pleasure, not because biking is environment-friendly, improves my health or brings ___C9____ (I) to different parts of the city. But it does all these things, too— and sometimes makes us a little self-satisfied for it; still, the reward is emotional (情 感的) ___C10____ (satisfy), which beats reason, as it often does.

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