单选题
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单选题
What’s Dr. Smith’s primary purpose of coming to India?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】 [解析] 细节题。B项并未提到。A、C两项均为干扰项。故应选D。 [听力原文] Questions
<17>-<20> R: Dr. Smith, you were a political
journalist in America and I was told that you’ve chosen to live here, a mountain
village like this in the Himalayan Community. Could you please tell me why you
came to India and settled down here? S: Yes, of course. I came
to India a year ago to have a better understanding of the country. After I
arrived, I had to find a place where I could live and write. Of course there
Were many places for me to choose. But after some months I settled down happily
in this village because I like the countryside better and it is a little cooler
than those in the plains. R: Have you ever thought of a typical
village as a better choice? S: Yes, I have. Yet no such thing
exists. In fact I wasted a lot of time looking for the typical village.
Conditions vary too widely. But the villages I stayed in had much in
common--poverty, dirt, and ignorance. R: But in spite of all
this, you still feel very happy. Is the experience in this country so important
to you that you came all the way from the United States? S:
Well, that’s also the question that the villagers ask me. They think that I’m
crazy to give up my comfortable life in the United States and isolate myself
from the outside world in this remote village, like a retired old man. Why have
I come? I've put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas have
changed. I've come to believe that what is happening in the Third World is more
important than anything else. But to understand how three-quarters of the
world's people live, and how their future might affect the rest of the world, I
feel that I first have to try and share their way of life. R: I
must say I find your view on this issue very convincing. I'm sure when you go
back to your own country you'll find you stay here very rewarding.
单选题
Why did Dr. Smith choose to settle down in a village in the Himalayan?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 从Smith的第二次回答中可以排除A、D两项。B项并未提到。故应选C。
单选题
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?