填空题 This summer the city"s Department of Transportation starts a new bike-share program. People 1 live and work in New York will be able to travel 2 (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 3 (decide) what is convenient, what is possible. Parks, restaurants and friends who once 4 (seem) beyond reasonable travelling distance on public transportation will seem a lot closer. The possibilities aren"t limitless, but the change will be pretty 5 (impress).
I"ve used a bike to get around New York 6 decades. There"s great excitement you feel from self-propelled transportation—skateboarding, in-line skating and walking as well as biking; New York 7 (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 8 pleasure, not because biking is environment-friendly, improves my health or brings 9 (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) 10 (satisfy), which beats reason, as it often does.