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  3. (1)Nothing attracts me to a city as much as an exaggerated but pervasive generalization that discourages timid travelers, keeps

(1)Nothing attracts me to a city as much as an exaggerated but pervasive generalization that discourages timid travelers, keeps

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问题     (1)Nothing attracts me to a city as much as an exaggerated but pervasive generalization that discourages timid travelers, keeps prices down and lines short, and makes people like me very happy.
    (2)But I’m an Italy novice, and this was my first time in Naples. So while I love wandering and discovering rather than touring established sights, I wondered if I could skip the most famous pizzerias and churches in the world? Dispense with Pompeii?
    (3)My solution is to do some must-sees, and some see-what-happens.
    (4)When I stepped out of the subway near Naples’s historic center it took about 10 seconds for me to fall in love. A soccer ball rolled past me with kids chasing after it; pedestrians gestured on street corners like overacting extras on a movie set; motorbikes zoomed by haphazardly; and drying laundry fluttered in the breeze from just about every ancient balcony. I love cities with no clothes dryers.
    (5)Things got even better when I found I Fiori di Napoli, my 35 euro a night bed-and-breakfast, hidden away in a building without a street number, let alone a sign. Walking up marble steps to the third floor of this 18th-century building just off the narrow streets of the Spanish Quarter, I was greeted by Manuela Colosimo, one of the owners. Manuela, who spoke in Naples-seasoned but fluent English, would provide me with endless suggestions(and maps, and guidebooks, and strong coffee)over the week. Her first suggestion: Trattoria Nennella, just two blocks away, where a two-course dinner with a bottle of wine, a bottle of water, a cup of cherries and shouting, dancing waiters cost me 12 euros. Manuela snatched my dirty clothes too, but rain would delay their return for several days.
    (6)I decided to spend my first full day wandering the historic center, shelling out 7 euros to see Giuseppe Sanmartino’s "Veiled Christ" in the Cappella Sansevero Museum, an astonishing sculpture mat even atheists(无神论者)might find divine. I tried me pizza at the famed Di Matteo and the Pizzaiolo del Presidente(named after Bill Clinton’s visit mere). Both were finely executed in the best Neapolitan style, though crusts tended to be a bit soggy in the center if you ask me, and Di Matteo tried to tack an extra euro onto the bill, an annoying though possibly honest error. I also wandered into a barber shop in me Spanish Quarter to have my hair cut by a 73-year-old barber named Ciro, who had been working on his trade on the same corner for 50 years. That ran me 8 euros, and we chatted the whole time, which is impressive since he doesn’t know even me word "haircut" in English.
    (7)But Italians have ways of making themselves understood. There was me old lady who I sat next to after taking one of the popular tours of the Greek and Roman. She told me stories of when her family sought refuge mere during the war when she was 8. And the man who chatted me up as I wandered the narrow alleys of another residential neighborhood; he directed me to a tiny, rustic-seeming restaurant named ’A Cucina ’e Mamma, with a 7 euro lunch special. All conversation stopped when I walked in, a sure sign mat this was not a tourist joint.
    (8)Mixing me well trodden and the less explored was a good strategy on my first venture outside Naples: I went to Pompeii, which lived up to its reputation as a tourist-thronged nightmare and where they had inexplicably run out of maps to accompany me audio tour I shelled out 6.50 euros for. But I also went to me much more manageable-sized, less-thronged and better-preserved Mount Vesuvius victim: Herculaneum.
The following factors can most probably prompt the author to visit a place EXCEPT _____.
选项 A、being adventurous
B、being cost-effective
C、being less tourist-thronged
D、being full of modern flavor
答案D
解析 第1段总结最能吸引作者的地方的特点：让胆小者望而却步、旅行费用低、没有很多人排队，以及能让人高兴。由此可知，A与discourages timid travelers意思相近，B、C对应keeps prices down and linesshort，只有D没有提到。且从后文对那不勒斯古城的描述，特别是第4段最后一句I love cities with noclothes dryers可以猜测作者甚至并不喜欢去充满现代感的地方旅行，因此本题选D。
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