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When Jeff was young, he had always been thin
and strong. When Jeff was forty, and he was fat and his muscles were very 1. He did not wish to get fatter and
softer every year. One day one of his friends said to him, “Do you want to be
thinner, Jeff?” 2, I do," Jeff answered.
“Well, stop going to your office3 car, and get a bicycle. ”
Jeff had not ridden a bicycle for many years. “It
is very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your 4, ”his wife said.
In 5, it was not too hard for Jeff to ride a bicycle again. He usually
sat in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening. But now he 6 riding his bicycle every evening. He hoped
that it would help him to get 7 , and he also got a lot of
pleasure from it.
He found some little roads which were not
really very narrow but were not 8 enough for cars, and there he
got away from the noises of the city, which were becoming too 9 for him.
Then he began to go to his office on his
bicycle. Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light, but he could pass them
to the 10 , because his bicycle was
narrow. So he was happy.
