A、 A construction firm.
B、 A private company.
C、 A newspaper.
D、 The government.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：选项都是与公司或机构相关的名词短语。对话开头男士回答自己怎么开始职业生涯时。提到：I started with the government。由此可知他的第一份工作是D项The government“政府部门”。A项“建筑公司”是现在的公司。

A、 Because his wife likes him to work for a firm.
B、 Because he prefers working for the government.
C、 Because he planned to do self-employed work.
D、 Because he faced financial pressure.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：①选项以because开头，由此推测问题与原因相关。②女士问男士是什么促使他离开公共部门，男士用Money mainly作了回答，并解释说当时结婚，妻子没工作，他们想要马上生孩子。由此可知D项faced financial pressure“面临财务压力”是对原文的总结。A“妻子想要他为公司工作”、B“他更喜欢为政府工作”和C“他计划创业”都与对话不符。

A、 Studying a pure science first.
B、 Getting good exam results.
C、 Being interested in arts.
D、 Being good at drawing.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：在回答what qualifications does one have to have to become an architect这一问题时，男士说到要有建筑学学位，即申请学习建筑学之前，要通过考试，并取得好的成绩。B项Getting good exam results“取得好的考试成绩”与原文意思一致。

A、 The work of an architect involves much drawing.
B、 Drawing is not necessary to become an architect.
C、 Drawing in architecture is similar to drawing in art.
D、 Accuracy is important in an architect's drawings.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：①选项都与drawing和architect相关，听音时可留意相关内容。②录音提到，建筑师的工作包含了大量的画画，A项几乎是原文再现，只是把a lot of替换成了much，为答案。

A、 It is more theoretical than practical.
B、 It is more practical than theoretical.
C、 It combines practice and theory.
D、 It is attractive and interesting.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：①选项都是it开头，由theoretical，practical等词可推测问题与工作或职业相关。②录音最后，男士提到建筑是理论与实践的结合(a mixture of theory and practice)，C项用combines同义替换了mixture，为答案。