【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文] Queen Victoria was monarch of Great Britain from 1837 until her death in 1901. This period is often called the Victorian Age. Queen Victoria was a stern and serious woman. One reason she was so serious was that she had suffered a great loss. When she was twenty years old, she married a German prince named Albert. Victoria and Albert were deeply in love, and their marriage was extremely happy. In 1861, after they had been married for twenty-one years, Albert died, leaving Queen Victoria heartbroken. For the rest of her life, the lonely Victoria mourned his loss. It was customary in those days for a widow to dress in black for a short time after the death of her husband. But Queen Victoria dressed in black for forty years. And for forty years, as another sign of her grief, she wrote her letters with paper edged in black. Even before Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria was known as a very serious woman. She had a strong sense of duty and worked very hard at all her tasks. In her diary she wrote, 'I love to be employed; I hate to be idle.' She never forgot that she was Britain's queen and always acted with great dignity. Victoria had high ideals and moral standards that sometimes made her seem stuffy. She was also very sure of herself. She always thought that she was right, and she expected everyone to agree with her. What was one of the reasons for Queen Victoria's being a serious woman? 原文提到，维多利亚女王的个性严肃于她的遭遇：她深爱的丈夫Albert的早年过世给她带来了巨大的精神上的打击，故D为答案。短文中的one reason揭示出重要考点，故文中的suffered a great loss必是此题的答案。再听短文对该loss的解释，得到D正确。