7、    Londoners are great readers．They buy large numbers of newspapers，magazines and books

-especially paperbacks(平裝書)，which are still cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the cost of printing. They still continue to buy“proper”books，too，printed on good paper．

    There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in(以……為主) book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London．Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which is said to be“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 make efforts to get，any kind of book．but many of them specialize in second-hand books，in art books，in foreign books，in books on economics，politics or any other subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet.

    Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books．Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest．For really cheap second-hand books．collectors must go to some less well-known places，to Farringdon Road．for example，in the East Central district of London. Bookshops are the finest buildings in this area．Instead，the booksellers come along each morning and put lots of books on to small barrows(手推車)which line the streets. The collectors, some professionals and some amateurs(業(yè)余愛好者)，who have been waiting for them，run quickly towards the books．In places like this one can still，occasionally，pick up for a few pence an old book that may be worth many pounds．

1．According to the passage，we know that     

    A．Londoners like borrowing books from libraries

    B．Londoners like buying books，magazines and newspapers

    C．Londoners like reading books in libraries

    D．Londoners don't like buying“proper”books

2．Chafing Cross Road is well-known for          

    A．lending books  B．publishing books  C．printing books   D．selling books

3．The underlined word“solely”in the second paragraph means“      ”．

    A．wholly          B．partly                   C．only              D．seldom

4．What do we know from the last paragraph?

    A．Where expensive new books are sold．    B．Where cheap new books are sold

    C．Where cheap old books are sold          D ．Where expensive old books are sold