文档介绍：2008年职称英语综合类真题之A级阅读理解
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    第一篇Centers of the Great European Cities
    The centers of the great cities of Europe are meeting places by tradition-People
 gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting,metropolitan atmosphere.
    Squares,plazas(广场)and arcades(拱廊)form the heart of Europe’s cities.
    Venice in Italy has the Piazza San Marco—a beautiful square surrounded by shops,churches,restaurants and Barcelona,Spain,La Bosqueria is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of ’s Covent Garden is filled with fruit and vegetable stalls by day and musicians,acrobats(杂技演员)and artists by night. The government buildings at the center of many cities often are architecturally impressive. In London,they serve as a beautiful backdrop(背景)to the coffee tables that line the streets and the banks of the Thames.
    These vibrant(有活力的)hearts are the product of centuries of evolution,social
 historian Joel Garreau told US News and World Report recently.“The reason people think Venice is so great today is you don’t see all the mistakes,”said Garreau-“ Those have all been removed.”Most European cities were laid out before the invention of the car, so and cafes were near to,people’s ,the focus of many Europeans’life h