海天2017考研英语基础-阅读-赵南望视频教程

1.（2006年真题 Text 2）
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry ——WilliamShakespeare ——but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostilebranches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superbproductions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And thereare the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, butto look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to theirrevenue. They frankly dislike the RSC's actors, them with their long hair and beardsand sandals and noisiness. It's all deliciously ironic when you consider thatShakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did hisshare of noise-making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus——and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side ——don'tusually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre inStratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with theirplaygoing. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town'srevenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cashinto the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out oftown by nightfall.
The townsfolk don't see it this way and local council does not contribute directlyto the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally.Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge.Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated withHamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so

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