As one steps out of the busy commercial streets in front of the station in a Japanese city and moves on into side streets, one often encounters old shops and historic temples and shrines which hint at the former character of the city. It is in the side streets rather than the main roads that the original face of a city is to be found. But even in antique-looking houses in side street one can often see that their interiors may have been rebuilt and their attings replaced in an attempt to keep abreast of the times. This applies in farming villages as well as cities old-style houses and buildings decrease year by year, and in some cases the changes have been even more radical than those which have occurred in the cities. But although outward appearance and facilities may have been renovated, there has surely been no renovation in the sensibilities and attitudes of the people who live in these new environments.
The passage contains a lot about renovation within the old house and buildings ____.
though many of them are being pulled down
including the decorations of temples and shrines in the main streets
though a large proportion of the interiors have remained unchanged
which are largely situated around the main station
but the people are basically still traditional
An interesting point made in the passage is that ____.
the old history of a Japanese city is to be found in side streets not in busy commercial ones
the Japanese villages have completely avoided the city trends of modernization
the character of the Japanese is changing rapidly as a result of modernization
Japanese temples and shrines no longer play a significant role in the Japanese way of life
in modem Japan more and more people are moving from farming villages to dries
This passage is primarily concerned with ____.
the pride that the Japanese-people feel for their great historic heritage
the economic importance of activities in the side streets of Japanese cities
the contrast in fife-styles between the villages and the cities of Japan
the social importance of Japanese temples and shrines