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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

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问题     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.
What do we learn about Kentish Town Road?
选项 A、It is a high way only for automobiles.
B、It is a boring but fashionable walking street.
C、It connects Camden with Hampstead.
D、It looks almost the same as thirty years ago.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。本题考查肯特镇路的基本情况。由定位段第三句可知，与另外两镇不同，30年来肯特镇路似乎并无改变，D)是对该句内容的同义转述，故为答案。A)“它是一条仅允许机动车通行的大街”和B)“她是一条令人乏味但却很时尚的步行街”，在原文均未提及，故排除；C)“它连接了卡姆登镇和汉普斯蒂德”，显然是对原文内容的过度推断，该段第一句说肯特镇路在伦敦北部，第三句说卡姆登镇在南部，汉普斯蒂德在西部，但并未交代三镇是否相连，故排除。
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