单选题 Londoners are great readers. They buy vast
numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books—specially paperbacks, which are
still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of
printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper
and bound between hard covers. There are many streets in London
containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of
these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all
sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being
"the biggest bookshop in the world" to the tiny, dusty little places which seem
to have been left over from Dicken's time. Some of these shops stock, or will
obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in
art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of
the myriad subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area
specializes solely in books about ballet. Although it may be
the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not
the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must
venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East
Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops.
Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of
books on the small barrows (流动售货车) which line the gutters (街沟). And the
collectors, some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them,
pounce (一把抓住) upon the dusty cascaded (一叠叠图书). In places like this one can
still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth
many pounds.
单选题
"Londoners are great readers" means that ______.
A. Londoners are great because they read a lot
B. there are a great number of readers in London
C. Londoners are readers who read only great books