英语六级(CET6)阅读理解模拟练习题及答案(1)_大学英语阅读

英语六级(CET6)阅读理解模拟练习题及答案(1)

　　The avenues run North and South, beginning with 1st Avenue on the East Side and spanning westward all the way to 12th Avenue. Streets run East and West, beginning with 1st street downtown and going as far as 220th Street at the northern tip of uptown Manhattan. Locations north of 14th Street are generally considered Uptown and anything lying below 14th Street is considered Downtown. The East Side is separated from the West Side by Central Park （from 59th Street to 110th Street） and by Broadway, the street below 59th Street.

　　Its important to remember that the distance between avenues is generally much larger than the distance between streets （roughly 3 times as long）. So, walking east to west from 1st Avenue to 3rd Avenue, for example, will be roughly 3 times farther than walking south to north from 1st Street to 3rd Street.

　　When in New York, it is common to hear people shout out addresses that sound like a list of numbers. For example, lets say you want to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its located at 82nd Street and 5th Avenue. If you were to hop in a taxi, you could simply say, 82nd and 5th and the driver would know exactly where to go. Thats because when New Yorkers give addresses, they most often just say the street number and then the avenue number. Do not reverse the order of the numbers, though. The first number is where your destination is located and the second number is the nearest cross-street. When getting addresses in New York, it is always helpful to ask for the nearest cross-street.