It is easy to find your way about in New York. It is laid out so regularly. Instead of streets winding and twisting (迂回) as they do in London, they are all regular and well planned. The streets running north and south are called “avenues” and are numbered, e.g. 1st Avenue, 2nd Avenue, etc. The streets going east and west are called “streets” and are also numbered, e.g. 51st Street, 63rd Street. It is all much more logical (合理的) than London’s street names. But I couldn’t help thinking how much more interesting than these dull cold numbers are London’s illogical but colorful names of streets, e.g. “Bishopgate” (which is not a gate and hasn’t a Bishop in it); “Haymarket” or “Corn market” (where you won’t see any hey or corn) or “Poultry” (without a living chicken anywhere in sight) or “Thread needle Street” (where you won’t find little girls learning to sew).
小题1:In the second sentence of the passage, “laid out” means ______.
A．built
B．be put
C．designed
D．cut down小题2:The streets running from north to south are called _______.
A．avenues in London
B．streets in America
C．avenues in New York
D．streets in London小题3:According to the writer’s opinion, ______.
A．avenues and streets are the same
B．streets in America are better than avenues in England
C．streets in New York are better than those in London
D．the writer didn’t agree with the London streets planners小题4:The names of streets both in London and New York ______.
A．are quite good
B．are interesting
C．are not practical
D．differ greatly in form小题5:The writer tells his readers that he prefers (更喜欢) _____.
A．London streets
B．New York streets
C．both
D．neither