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A Bike Hire Scheme Has Started in London 伦敦开始自行车出租计划London has become a cycle friendly zone after the launch of a new bike hire scheme. It has been designed to encourage more people to cycle in and around central London. So how does it work? First you have to sign up to the scheme to be sent a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes, which are kept at docking stations in and around central London. You have to pay an access fee for the key and then you pay as you go, for the length of time you use the bike. Transport for London, which runs the scheme, are hoping to have 6,000 bikes and 400 docking stations in place by the end of the year.The new hire system is hoping to ease congestion in London and is expected to generate up to 40,000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre. Another cuppa?媒体英语会带大家一起学习BBC撰稿人在报道世界大事时常用到的单词和短语。Background: 背景： 荷兰的一项研究表明，在对4万名每天都喝几杯茶或咖啡的人群进行了13年的跟踪后，专家们发现这一人群患心脏疾病的可能性较小。The study in the journal of the American Heart Association could make pleasant reading for those who like a regular cup of tea. It found that those who drank more than six cups of tea a day were a third less likely to develop heart problems than those who drank none.Coffee drinkers also fared well, but only up to a point. Those who consumed between two and four cups a day had a twenty percent lower risk of heart disease than those who drank little. But the protective effects stopped with very heavy consumption. The Dutch do not add milk to their tea as liberally as the British, and the jurys still out as to whether milk reduces the effectiveness of flavonoids, which are thought to be the key ingredient. The British Heart Foundation welcomed the study, but warned that drinking all your tea while slouched on the couch was unlikely to offer many health benefits. Glossary 词汇表 (收听发音, 请单击英语单词) association协会 pleasant 令人愉快的 fared well 结果不错、身体不错 up to a poin