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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.
It can be inferred from the passage that Kentish Town______.
选项
A、doesn’t develop fast because its roads are too narrow
B、holds a larger number of white population than London
C、rejects new businesses and fulfils kind of local protectionism
D、may one day become a community for only wealthy families
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。本题考查肯特镇的信息。根据第四段可知,当地居民反对颁发新许可证这类事物,当地的一个商业协会也擅长这种控诉。由此可知,肯特镇拒绝新企业人驻,实施地方保护主义,故C)为答案。A)“发展不快是因为道路太窄”,第二段主要说社会住房促进了廉价商店的存在,而拥堵的道路又阻碍了外来购物者的进人,因而肯特镇发展较慢,直接将发展慢归因于道路窄过于武断,故排除;B)“白人数量比伦敦多”,根据第三段可知,肯特镇白人占当地总人口的72%,比白人占伦敦总人口的比例还要高,两个数据说的是人口比例,不是人口的真实数量,故排除;D)“可能有一天会变成一个只有富裕家庭的社区”,第五段并未提及,故排除。
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