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THERE are many different Londons, and they appeal to people with many different passions: museum lovers, theatergoers, opera buffs (爱好者,迷;热心人), devotees of royalty, students of history, people who like to walk in the rain. But richest of all, perhaps, is the London for book lovers.

Because the city is the star and the backdrop of so much great literature, it is possible to believe you know it very well — how it looks, how it feels — without ever leaving your home country, or indeed your home. But it is better to visit, if only for the joy of seeing the landscape of your imagination come to life. How breathtaking to happen upon Pudding Lane, where a bakery accident led to the Great Fire of 1666, after reading Pepys’s account in his diaries. Or to wander along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes once fictionally solved the unsolvable. Walk across London Bridge and gaze down, toward Southwark Bridge: this is the stretch of the Thames where Dickens’s sinister characters dredged up corpses in “Our Mutual Friend.”

The city is not so foggy as it was in 1952, when Margery Allingham published “The Tiger in the Smoke,” or as socially stratified as it when Marianne Dashwood waited in “Sense and Sensibility” for a suitor who never called; or as greedy as it was in the thrusting 1980s of Martin Amis’s “Money.” But it is all of those Londons, an accrual of different descriptions and eras. It is a city made for description — reread the first passages of “Bleak House,” also on the subject of fog, for a moody introduction — and one that so respects its authors that it buried a number of the best ones in style, in Westminster Abbey.

There are plenty of organized literary-themed tours around the city, easily found on the Internet. Or you can wander characteristically on your own, which is more fun. If you take the Tube or the bus, make sure to carry a book.  

6. What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. Most people of London like visiting museums.

B. No Londoners go to cinemas to see the films.

C. A majority of Londoners are book lovers.

D. All the Londoners like to walk in the rain.

7. What information can you get from Pepy’s diaries?

A. Great Fire of 1666 caused by an accident in a bakery.

B. Sherlock Holmes once lived in Baker Street.

C. London Bridge is next to Baker Street.

D. “Our Mutual Friend” is one of Dickens’s works.

8. Who is Sherlock Holmes?

A. A book lover.            B. A character of Dickens’s novel: “Our Mutual Friend”.

C. A detective.              D. A person who set the Great Fire of 1666.

9. In which book can’t you find the description about the fog in London?

A. “The Tiger in the Smoke”        B. “Sense and Sensibility”

C. “Money”                                       D. “Our Mutual Friend”

10. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Most kinds of tours around London may be found on the Internet.

B. You must be shown around London by a guide.

C. There are many kinds of literary-themed activities including tours.

D. You’d better take a book when you travel in London.

6-10  CACDB


解析:

6.  此题为推理判断题。根据本段中museum lovers可知,“伦敦人喜欢去参观博物馆”,但不像A项所说的most people of London,故不能选;第一段中并没有提及是否有人去看电影,但也无法排除B项正误;文中提到了people who like to walk in the rain,但这只是many different Londons的部分,文中并没有提及是 all;根据本段最后一句 But richest of all, perhaps, is the London for book lovers.可知C项正确。

7.  此题为细节考查题。根据第二段中How breathtaking to happen upon Pudding Lane, where a bakery accident led to the Great Fire of 1666, after reading Pepys’s account in his diaries.可知此处得知Great Fire of 1666 caused by an accident in a bakery.的出处是Pepys’s diaries;B、C、D三项中所提信息,都是正确的,但与此处的题干是无关的,故不能选择。

8.  此题为细节考查题。根据第二段中Or to wander along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes once fictionally solved the unsolvable.的内容,尤其是句中fictionally可知:Sherlock Holmes应是一个detective。

9.  此题为细节考查题。根据文中第三段所提供的信息可知:此段中的四部作品都涉及到了fog的内容,而在文中没有提及在Our Mutual Friend中是否提到过这一主题。因此选择D项。

10.  此题为细节考查题根据文中最后一段的内容:…easily found on the Internet.可知A项正确;There are plenty of organized literary-themed tours around the city,…可知C项正确;If you take the Tube or the bus, make sure to carry a book可知D项正确;Or you can wander characteristically on your own, which is more fun.可知B项不正确,故选择B项。

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