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The Blue One

Comprar una bicicleta de segunda mano en Portland.

Palabras clave de esta historia

  • second-hand · de segunda mano
  • owner · dueño
  • beard · barba
  • racing bike · bicicleta de carreras
  • huge · enorme
  • to hurt oneself · hacerse daño
  • pile · montón, pila
  • tire · neumático, llanta (inglés americano)

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Palabras útiles (13)
  • second-hand · de segunda mano
  • owner · dueño
  • beard · barba
  • racing bike · bicicleta de carreras
  • huge · enorme
  • to hurt oneself · hacerse daño
  • pile · montón, pila
  • tire · neumático, llanta (inglés americano)
  • basket · cesta, canasta
  • dusty · polvoriento, lleno de polvo
  • wheel · rueda
  • cloth · trapo, paño
  • brakes · frenos

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Andrea moved to Portland last month. Everybody in Portland rides a bike, so on Saturday she went to a bike shop. The Walt, had a long gray and about a hundred bikes.

"Which one do you like?" Walt asked. Andrea pointed at a red one. "That one is a bike," said Walt. "Too fast for the city. What about the blue one?" The blue one was beautiful, but it cost four hundred dollars.

"The big ones are cheaper," Walt said. He showed her a black one. Andrea tried to sit on it. Her feet didn't touch the ground. "I don't want to myself," she said. "Do you have a smaller one?"

They looked at a yellow one, a green one and two white ones. Walt liked the expensive ones. Andrea liked the cheap ones. After an hour, they were both tired. "Can I look by myself for a minute?" Andrea asked.

At the back of the shop, behind a of old she found an old orange bike with a It was but the were good. Andrea cleaned it herself with a from her bag.

"That one? Nobody wants that one," said Walt. "I do," said Andrea. "How much?" Walt thought about it. "Forty dollars, and you fix the yourself." Andrea rode home on the orange one, smiling all the way.

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0/4 respondidas

1. ¿Por qué quiere Andrea una bicicleta?

2. ¿Por qué no compra la bicicleta azul?

3. ¿Qué problema tiene Andrea con la bicicleta negra grande?

4. ¿Qué bicicleta compra al final y por cuánto?