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中国考博辅导首选学校 清华大学考博英语真题paper two Ihadvisitedthecapitalbeforealthoughmy friendArthurhadnot, I first visited London as a student, reluctantly released from the bosom o a tearful mum, with a traveling trunk stu ed full o home-made fruit cakes and woolly vests. I was ill-prepared for the Spartan standards o the South. Through even the grimmest post-war days, as kids we had ploughed ourway through corner cuts o bee and steamed puddings. So you can imaginemy dismay when I arrived, that first day, at my London digs to be faced with a plate o tuna-paste sandwiches and a thin slice o cake left curling under a tea-towel. And that was supposed to be Sunday lunch! When Ieventuallycaughtupwithmy extremely irritatinglandlady, I met with a vision o splendor more in keeping with the Royal Enclosure at the races than the area in which she lived. Festooned with jewelsand furs and plastered with exclusive cosmetics, shewas a walking advert for Bond Street. Now, we have a none too elegant but very apt phrase for this in the North o England, and it was the one my friend Arthur came up with todescribeLondon after three days there: ‘All fur coatandnothing underneath’. Take our hotel. The reception area was plush and inviting, the lounge and dining-room posh enough to start Arthur speaking ‘properly’.But journeyupstairs from one landing to thenext, and the veneers o civilization fell away before your eyes. By the time we reached our room, all pretension to refinement and comfort had disappeared. The fur coat was o (back in the hands o the hire purchase company), and what we were really expected to put up with fora smallfortuneanightwas exposed inall itsshamefulnakedness. It was little more than a garret, a shabby a air with patched and peeling walls. There was a stained sinkwith pipes that grumbled and muttered all night long and an assortment o furnishings that would have disgrace