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Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paud: “But you’ll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”It was a rare — indeed unique — occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be parated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout’s Wonderful Bag, a leather ca.Grout’s aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four parate parts relatively simple. You couldn’t do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated （充气的） tyre.So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellip （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.Will the young Fitzsimons’s folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there’s plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are eing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane — minus wheels, of cour — as hand baggage.Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie’s imagination? No. But it’s progress.小题1:We can infer from Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike    .A．was portableB．had a folding wheelC．could be put in a pocketD．looked like a magic carpet小题2:We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable    .A．were difficult to parateB．could be split into 6 piecesC．were fitted with solid tyresD．were hard to carry on a train小题3:We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons’s invention    .A．kept the tyre as a whole pieceB．was made into production soonC．left little room for improvementD．changed our views on bag design小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A．Three folding bike inventorsB．The making of a folding bikeC．Progress in folding bike designD．Ways of parating a bike wheel 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:A小题2:C小题3:A小题4:C

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小题1:逻辑推理题。从文章第一段Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet…ou could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”.小题2:细节判断题。从文in Grout’s day, tyres were solid, 可知。小题3:细节判断题。从第四段最后一句话Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellip （椭圆）. Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.可知。小题4:逻辑判断题。从整篇文章中可以看出是对便携式是自行车的设计的改进。

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