【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
M: Today, as our guest on Student Radio Westmark is student organizer and well-known Biology major and activist, Adeline Reed. Adeline, welcome to the show.
W: Thank you. I am glad to be here.
M: First, can you give us some ideas about your work?
W: Well,
we"ve been trying to pressure the local government to resume funding of its recycling center.
As you may know, they cut off funding to the main plant. Our group, Restoring Recycling Radars (or RRR), called for funding.
We hope to succeed in not only getting the funding restored, but also increased.
M: Since you have repeatedly said in the previous interview in the newspapers that the city government doesn"t care about this. So my question is why would they listen to your group?
W: Well,
we"ve been advocating these issues for a long time
and now the council is pretty split on this issue. So a push in the right direction couldn"t hurt.
M: Any light, so far, at the end of the tunnel?
W: Plenty.
The council wasn"t happy about the garbage we dumped on the City Hall lawn, but they got the message.
Now, they"re reviewing their actions and voting tomorrow in a special council meeting.
M: Well, thanks for that briefing and it was a pleasure once again to talk with you. Stay tuned now for some fine tunes from our DJ, so don"t touch that dial!
What does the woman mainly talk about?
[解析] 整个采访谈论的是有关Adeline及其组织所做的工作，即要求政府恢复对废物回收中心的拨款。故D符合。
本题要求从整体上把握对话的主题。虽然Adeline和她的组织要求政府恢复拨款，但并未提到它所带来的好处，A不正确；B和C有所提及，但不足以概括话题。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Why would the government listen to the woman"s group?
[解析] 男士问女士为什么政府会倾听她们组织的诉求，女士回答说她们长期以来一直在提倡解决这些问题(advocating these issues for a long time)，可见她认为她们一直在处理这些问题是政府理会她们的原因，B语义与女士的话意相近，故为答案。
男士说女士在之前的采访中说政府不理会这个，可见A与原意相矛盾。C只是利用对话中的原词cut off和the main plant进行干扰，但对话里说的是切断工厂资金的是政府，而非女士所在组织，C只是随意拼凑原词。从男士的话我们可知女士之前也被采访过，但是次数不详，也跟政府听不听她们组织的诉求无关，故D不对。