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Kentish Town Road is a boring high street in north London. It contains pound shops, hairdressers and some old hardware stores. U
Kentish Town Road is a boring high street in north London. It contains pound shops, hairdressers and some old hardware stores. U
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2016-09-08
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Kentish Town Road is a boring high street in north London. It contains pound shops, hairdressers and some old hardware stores. Unlike Camden Town to the south, full of bars and tattoo(纹身)clubs, Hampstead to the west, with its pubs and clothing shops, little seems to have changed on the street for the past three decades.
One explanation is that, in common with other parts of London, Kentish Town has lots of social housing, as well as costly Victorian terraces(排屋). Camden Council, the local authority, is building even more in the town. This helps cheaper shops survive, suggests Tony Travers of the London School of Economics: council renters are less likely to drive and so rely more on local outlets. And the sheer volume of car and lorry traffic on the busy high street, which is a main road into the city, might block shoppers from visiting and fashionable businesses from setting up in the area.
Population structure plays a part, too. Fully 72% of the population of Kentish Town is white, including a good number of Irish residents—higher than the proportion in London as a whole, at 60% . Unlike the high streets around Peckham and Berixton in south London, which cater for African shoppers who may travel far to reach them, few specialist shops draw people to Kentish Town. " We’re not a destination high street. " sighs one local trader.
Strong opposition of the local residents accounts for part of the reason. Lots of civic groups are active in the area, campaigning against new licenses and the like, says Dan Carrier of the Camden New Journal, a newspaper. A local business association is also good at complaining. Partly because of this, a big supermarket has not yet opened on the high street—though Lidl, a discounter, will set up shop this year.
Soaring house prices in the area might be another brake on the change. Wealthy family buyers mean that some houses once split into flats have been turned back into homes, says Mr. Carrier. The result is fewer shoppers on the high street. Wealthy residents are more likely to get their groceries online or drive to bigger stores. And most will go out to the West End rather than a local restaurant.
In what way does the life of local wealthy residents affect the town?
选项
A、They rebuild the houses and set up larger shops.
B、Their shopping habit causes the decline of the local business.
C、Their moving back promotes the prosperity of the street.
D、They confine their consumption to the local shops.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。本题考查当地富有居民的生活对肯特镇的影响。原文第五段第三句说“大街上的顾客越来越少”,随后第四、五句又解释说“富裕的居民更可能网上购物或是开车去更大的商店。其中的大多数人会去伦敦西区,而不是当地的餐厅”,可以推测肯特街生意萧条的部分原因是受到了富裕家庭购物习惯的影响,故答案为B)。A)“他们重建了房屋,开设了更大的商店”是对该段第二句的曲解,原文是说富裕家庭把原来分隔成公寓的房子重建为大房子,不是开设了更大的商店,排除;C)“他们的回归促进了街道的繁荣”,与该段第三句“大街上顾客越来越少”语义完全对立,排除;D)“他们将消费限定在当地的商店里”明显与该段第四、五句意思相反,排除。
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