THERE are many different Londons, and they appeal to people with many different passions: museum lovers, theatergoers, opera buffs (愛好者，迷；熱心人), 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
6.  此題為推理判斷題。根據(jù)本段中museum lovers可知，“倫敦人喜歡去參觀博物館”，但不像A項(xiàng)所說的most people of London，故不能選；第一段中并沒有提及是否有人去看電影，但也無法排除B項(xiàng)正誤；文中提到了people who like to walk in the rain，但這只是many different Londons的部分，文中并沒有提及是 all；根據(jù)本段最后一句 But richest of all, perhaps, is the London for book lovers.可知C項(xiàng)正確。
7.  此題為細(xì)節(jié)考查題。根據(jù)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.可知此處得知Great Fire of 1666 caused by an accident in a bakery.的出處是Pepys’s diaries；B、C、D三項(xiàng)中所提信息，都是正確的，但與此處的題干是無關(guān)的，故不能選擇。
8.  此題為細(xì)節(jié)考查題。根據(jù)第二段中Or to wander along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes once fictionally solved the unsolvable.的內(nèi)容，尤其是句中fictionally可知：Sherlock Holmes應(yīng)是一個(gè)detective。
9.  此題為細(xì)節(jié)考查題。根據(jù)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的內(nèi)容，而在文中沒有提及在Our Mutual Friend中是否提到過這一主題。因此選擇D項(xiàng)。
10.  此題為細(xì)節(jié)考查題根據(jù)文中最后一段的內(nèi)容：…easily found on the Internet.可知A項(xiàng)正確；There are plenty of organized literary-themed tours around the city,…可知C項(xiàng)正確；If you take the Tube or the bus, make sure to carry a book可知D項(xiàng)正確；Or you can wander characteristically on your own, which is more fun.可知B項(xiàng)不正確，故選擇B項(xiàng)。
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