A. speak several languages
B. have a Bachelor’s Degree
C. know how to teach middle school students
D. present good teaching plans
(C)
Here are many different Londons, and they appeal to people with many different passions: museum lovers, theatergoers, opera buffs(爱好者, 迷; 热心人), devotees of royalty, students of history, people who like to walk in the rain. But richest of all, perhaps, is the London for book lovers.
Because the city is the star and the backdrop of so much great literature, it is possible to believe you know it very well—how it looks, how it feels—without ever leaving your home country, or indeed your home. But it is better to visit, if only for the joy of seeing the landscape of your imagination come to life. How breathtaking to happen upon Pudding Lane, where a bakery accident led to the Great Fire of 1666, after reading Pepys’ account in his diaries. Or to wander along Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes once fictionally solved the unsolvable. Walk across London Bridge and gaze down, towards Southwark Bridge: this is the stretch of the Thames where Dickens’ sinister characters dredged up corpses in “Our Mutual Friend” .
The city is not so foggy as it was in 1952, when Margery Allingham published “The Tiger in the Smoke” , or as socially stratified as it when Marianne Dashwood waited in “Sense and Sensibility” for a suitor who never called; or as greedy as it was in the thrusting 1980s of Martin Amis’ “Money” . But it is all of those Londons, an accrual of different descriptions and eras. It is a city made for description—reread the first passages of “Bleak House” , also on the subject of fog, for a moody introduction—and one that so respects its authors that it buried a number of the best ones in style, in Westminster Abbey.
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