and nightclubs. To meet friends here usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p.m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone. (2004年广东省高考题)
Question:
The writer doesn’t like London because she ____.
A. is not used to the life there now
B. has lived there for seventeen years
C. prefers to live in an old-fashioned house
D. has to be polite to everyone she meets there
有的同学选B，作者在伦敦居住了十七年后，便不喜欢那儿了。虽然文章中有after seventeen years但这只是表面的原因。其实质原因在第二段讲得十分清楚：情况已经变了。对人们来讲，英国就意味着绅士风度，公平竞争和礼 |
