A．He is a man full of courage.

　　B．He used to enjoy reading very much.

　　C．He is very like David in Safe as Houses.

　　D．He has been greatly affected by Safe as Houses.

　　解析：D　推理判断题。根据第三段中的Safe as Houses changed my opinion in regard to reading and now I enjoy reading very much可知，这本书改变了作者对阅读的看法并使他从此爱上了阅读，因此该书对他的影响颇深。

　　8．Why did Eric write Stand Your Ground?

　　A．To record his students' stories.

　　B．To encourage his students to read.

　　C．To state the importance of reading.

　　D．To teach his students they can be writers.

　　解析：B　细节理解题。根据最后一段中的His students were not good readers and did not like reading，so Eric created a book called Stand Your Ground for his students and used some of the students' names to create the story可知，Eric创作Stand Your Ground这本书是为了鼓励他的学生阅读。

　　C

　　Will Hodson, a primary­school teacher in London, was reading a superhero book to his students one day when a thought struck him. "We were talking about how we can all do something heroic every day－open a door for someone, say something nice to someone，" he recalled. "I decided not to use the day's lesson plans and asked the five­year­olds to think about, 'What are we all good at？'"

　　Hodson, 39, was good at cycling, and he ended up taking his lesson to an extreme: After saving up for two years, he left his job and set off on a five­year ride across seven continents (洲) to raise money for charity, including for Parkinson's disease, which his father has. Calling himself Super Cycling Man, he tries to visit at least one school per country, to spread the message that "we can all be heroes."

　　Starting last May, Hodson has hit 14 countries in Europe. On the road, strangers have acted heroically－Turkish gas station attendants sheltered him from the snow, and people in Serbia made a huge pizza for him.

　　So far, he has raised about $19,000 of the $140,000 he hopes to raise. Antarctica, the most expensive continent to visit, is last on his list, after Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa.

　　The hardest part of the trip has been "just keeping my parents at manageable stress (压力) levels. You see so much bad news in the world, but I see a very different picture－people inviting me to their houses, people pouring me drinks on the street at night."

　　Along with the superhero message, Hodson hopes to show people that "life's pretty good on two wheels"－particularly in places where cycling is less popular. Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, with its shortage of bike lanes (自行车道) and its crazy drivers, "is the toughest (最艰难的) city I've seen for cyclists, but even there, young people have been receptive."

　　 "The youth don't want to necessarily have a big pot belly (大肚子) and drive around in a car."

【文章大意】　本文是记叙文。文章主要介绍了一名英国教师辞职后骑行世界的故事。