【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]28-30
TOKYO: A rise in Tokyo stock prices helped Japan's big life insurance firms report an improvement in their financial health last Thursday, but a drop in the value of outstanding policies showed public confidence in the insurers remained low. Japanese share prices rose nearly 30 per cent in the April - September period. That helped improve the balance sheets of long - struggling life insurers, although it was not enough to close the "negative spread" between insurers' investment returns and the returns they need in order to meet obligations to policyholders. "Because of a rise in domestic stock prices, life insurers managed to get out of their crisis - like situation," said Hidetaka Kawakita, a professor at Japan's Chuo University and a former fund manager at top insurer Nippon Life Insurance Co.
"But looking at the bigger picture, nothing has really changed, and their negative spreads remain huge."
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