Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books — especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of everincreasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound (装订) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in bookselling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens' time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialize in secondhand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap secondhand books, the collectors must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small handcarts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.
1．“Londoners are great readers.” means that ________.
A．Londoners are great because they read a lot
B．there are a great number of readers in London
C．Londoners are readers who read only great books
D．Londoners read a lot
解析：选D 句意理解题。由第一段可知，伦敦人买了大量的报纸、杂志和书籍来阅读，故D项正确。
2．According to this passage, Charring Cross Road ________.
A．is in the suburbs of London
B．is famous for its bookshops
C．contains various kinds of shops
D．is the busiest street in London
解析：选B 细节理解题。由第二段的“There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in bookselling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London.”可知B项正确。
3．On Farringdon Road, ________.
A．you can find fine bookshops for the latest books
B．there are only small bookshops for the secondhandbooks
C．you can see booksellers selling books on handcarts
D．the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold
解析：选C 细节理解题。由第三段的“The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small handcarts.”可知C项正确。
4．The best title for this passage is ________.
A．Shopping in London
B．The Biggest Bookshop in the World
C．Charring Cross Road
D．Bookshops in London
解析：选D 标题归纳题。通读全文可知，文章主要讲述伦敦的书店，从出名的书店到街边小推车，故D项正确。
