【答案解析】[听力原文] The dating world is full of pitfalls, especially when it's done online. There are many people out there all with different profiles promising different things. The British journalist Natasha Devin was challenged by a friend to accept every date she was asked on over a two-month period. She thought her favorite date was the one where they actually just went for coffee. It was during his hour-long lunch break. So there was a time limit on how much time they could spend together. 'And we just had a very relaxed chat. And I felt like I could just be myself. The most uncomfortable date was a guy who insisted on analyzing the date as it happens. So about every ten minutes, he would ask me how I thought it was going. And I think it was just the mark of the fact that he was perhaps a little bit nervous. It's one of the things that you should not do on a date, to say 'How do you think it's going?'' she said. All the sixty days, Natasha believes that what the experiment taught her is that the mark of a good date is how comfortable you feel simply to be yourself and not have to put on a show or represent only the most perfect aspects of yourself. Natasha also gives a couple of the other examples. A couple of the guys were very uninterested. They knew what the right questions to ask. But then when she opened her mouth to respond, immediately they would start looking in a different direction or looking over her shoulder to see who was coming in the door. And another one that was very common was not having any plan. 'A surprising number of them I met ask me what I thought we should do. And so we spent the first fifteen minutes of the date kind of wandering around aimlessly. And it gets off on a wrong foot, I think. ' Natasha said. 'It's surprising actually and I do think it's a generational thing because some of the guys that asked me out were a little bit younger than me. And I found that if they were younger, it was just routine. ' Why did Natasha Devin accept every date she was asked? 听力原文中明确提到The British journalist Natasha Devin was challenged by a friend to accept every date she was asked on over a two-month period. 因此Natasha Devin是接受了一个朋友的挑战才接受这些约会的,故选项A为答案。其他三项听力中并未提及,均排除。
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【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文] According to Natasha Devin, what shouldn't you do on a date? 听力原文中明确提到It's one of the things that you should not do on a date,to say “How do you think it's going?”故答案为选项A。选项B有一定的干扰性,虽然听力原文中提到了So about every ten minutes,he would ask me how I thought it was going. 但是这句话并非强调不时看时间,可排除。
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【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文] What is a good date like according to Natasha Devin? 听力原文中明确提到the mark of a good date is how comfortable you feel simply to be yourself and not have to put on a show or represent only the most perfect aspects of yourself,由此可知Natasha认为一个好的约会应该让人感觉舒适、自然、不做作,因此选项C为答案。选项B与选项C相反,故排除。选项A 与D听力原文中未提及,排除。
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【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文] What may cause a date uncomfortable according to Natasha Devin? 听力原文中明确提到It's surprising actually and I do think it's a generational thing because some of the guys that asked me out were a little bit younger than me. 由此可知,邀请Natasha Devin出去的人有比她要年轻一些的,而约会也就成了例行公事,并不舒适,所以她认为约会也关乎年龄、代沟,故选项D为答案。