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      HERE 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' 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' "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 literarythemed 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.

1．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.

2．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.

3．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.

4．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"

5．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 literarythemed activities including tours.
D．You'd better take a book when you travel in London.
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59． The best title for the passage would be __________

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