【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
M: Hurry up, Kate. We"ll be late.
W: I am hurrying. I can"t move any faster.
M: It"s always the same. We can never get anywhere on time.
W: Right! I"m ready. Really, David, if you gave me some help around the house, we"d never have to hurry like this. I can"t do everything, you know.
M: Well, we"d better be off. We"re late already.
W: Oh, no!
It"s absolutely pouring. We can"t go out in that. We"ll be soaked.
M: Nonsense! Come on. It"s only a shower. It won"t last long.
W: A shower? That! It"s set in for the night. I"m not going out in that.
M: Well, you"ve got your umbrella, haven"t you? Use that. And anyway,
it"s only five minutes to the Johnsons" house.
W: It might just as well be five miles in that rain.
And I haven"t got my umbrella.
I left it in the office.
M: That wasn"t very clever of you, was it?
W: Well, we could use your umbrella, I suppose.
M: We can"t.
I left it on the train six weeks ago.
W: Oh, David. Really, you are impossible.
M: Well, we can"t stand here all night. We"re late as it is. Let"s go.
W: I"m not going out in that. And that"s final.
M: I"d better ring for a taxi then.
W: Yes. You"d better, hadn"t you?
Why does Kate refuse to leave the house then?
[解析] 由对话中女士提到的It"s absolutely pouring...be soaked.和And I haven"t got my umbrella.可知，凯特拒绝离开房子是因为外面下着瓢泼大雨，而且她把伞落到办公室了，如果出去会被淋湿的，故答案为D。
D中的raining very hard是对对话中pouring的同义转述。pouring意为“大雨倾盆”。