【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]23-25
M: Hi, Sarah. What's up?
W: Oh, hi. I just got out of a history class, I had to give a presentation.
M: How did it go?
W: Terribly. I'm sure I made a fool of myself.
M: Why? Weren't you prepared?
W: No, it's not that. just get so embarrassed and nervous whenever I have to speak in front of a group of people. I stand up and my face gets red and...then I get even more nervous because I know everyone can see me blushing.
M: It is not so bad to blush.
W: But it happens all the time. If the professor asks a question and I know the answer, I'll blush like crazy if he calls on me. Doesn't that ever happen to you?
M: No, not really. Maybe you should try to forget about the people. Look at something else in the room, like the exit sign.
W: I guess I could try that. But I doubt that it'll help.
M: You know we talked about this in psychology class. Blushing, even though it's involuntary, is more or less a learned behavior.
W: What do you mean?
M: Oh, children hardly ever blush at all. And, among adults, supposedly women blush more than men.
W: I wonder why.
M: I don't know. But I had a friend in high school, Brian Smith. It was really easy to make him blush. He turned red whenever a waitress would ask him for his order.
W: I'm not that bad. Well, I've got to get going for my next class. I'll talk to you later.
23. What was the woman's problem?
综合推断题。女士觉得自己在历史课上所做的阐述非常糟糕，男士问她是否没有准备好，女士回答说自己在一群人面前讲话时总是感到尴尬和紧张，由此推断，女士的问题应该是在课上感到尴尬，故选A。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
What does the man say about children?
综合推断题。男士说小孩几乎不会脸红，而成人之中，女性可能比男士更容易脸红，由此推断，小孩与成人相比，很少脸红，故选D。
[考点]
make a fool of oneself/sb．意为“使自己/某人出丑”，此时fool作名词；fool在作动词时，常构成短语fool about/around，意为“虚度光阴”，如：I was meant to be working on Sunday，but I just fooled around all day．我星期日本该工作的，但却晃了一整天。
call on sb. 此处意为“郑重要求某人讲话”，指的是课上教师点名让学生发言，该短语还有以下两个含义：
拜访某人；恳求或促使某人(做某事)，如：We are calling on you to help us．我们恳求你帮助我们。