单选题 {{I}} Questions 17-20 are based on the following interview. You now have 20 seconds to read the questions 17-20.{{/I}}
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?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 题目要求选择不合文意的一项。此题答案从说话人所说的第一句话中即可得出。故应选B。
单选题 What did the interviewer think about Dr. Smith's view?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 再现题。说话人在最后说到 I must say I find your view on this issue very convincing.故应选A。