【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文] 4-6
W: [4] What do you think of sending three-year-olds to nursery school, Gray?
M: That's a good idea.
W: Why do you think it's a good idea?
M: Because the baby enjoys being around other people of its age.
W: But I was thinking of a fairly formal thing, you know, like the kind of programs where you are training a person to go into kindergarten or the first grade.
M: [5] Well, teaching them what? Reading?
W: Yeah, not just a play situation.
M: I think it depends very much on that family's situation and that particular child. And I think even if it's not a play situation, it's not a bad thing.
W: You don't think that maybe you start structuring a person, you know, too much, too soon? I mean, I think our educational system is very structured and very repressive.
M: Well, if it's more of the same , thing, I agree. But, Bettie, wouldn't it be possible, uh, to start some sort of creative thing earlier?
W: You mean like art?
M: [6] Mm, even like reading is creative...
W: [5] Mm... Well, I'm also thinking, too, about what age a child starts to socialize and I don't think they're ready for socializing outside of the family before the age of about five or six.
M: Oh, really?
W: There are other ways of socializing, uh... uh, with other children than sending your child off to a nursery school.
[解析] 对话开头女土的提问便点出了他们将讨论的话题：“你觉得把3岁的孩子送到幼儿园怎样?”接着他们围绕这一问题展开讨论，由此不难判断选项A为最佳答案。
[点睛] 主旨大意题。解决这类题的诀窍之一，就在于能够抓住提问的句子，尤其是对话开头的提问，因为这很可能就是讨论的核心，而后面则是对细节的阐述或讨论。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 对话前半部分提到了reading，play sim-ation，educational system等词，由此可知焦点之一便是“教育”，即选项中的schooling；而对话结尾使用频率最高的一个词莫过于socialize，所以可想而知，socializing是另一个焦点。选项B涵盖了这两个方面，故为正确选项。
[点睛] 事实细节题。本题需要在听音过程中总结对话的焦点，如果不能从正面直接得出答案，可对选项进行排除，从而得出答案。选项A中的 honesty在对话中没有提到；选项C中的curiosity在对话中没有提到；选项D中的reading归属于 educational system，为同一个话题。