单选题 {{I}} Questions 18 ～ 21 are based on the following monologue.{{/I}}

单选题 What does the story tell us about the old woman?

A、 She was found stealing in a bookstore.
B、 She caught someone in the act of stealing.
C、 She admitted having stolen something.
D、 She said she was wrongly accused of stealing.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文]18-21 An elderly woman yesterday made a legal claim (索赔) against a department store because it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card. Mrs. Doss White, 72 years old, is claiming ＄3000 damages from the store for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. Mrs. White visited the store while doing Christmas shopping, but did not buy anything. She was followed through the town by a store manager. He had been told that a customer saw her take a card and put it in her shopping bag. He stopped her at a bookstore as she was reading a book. Mrs. White said, "This man, a total stranger, suddenly grasped my bag and asked if he could look in it." She was taken back to the store and shut in a small room in full view of shoppers for 20 minutes until the police arrived. At the police station she was body-searched and nothing was found. Her lawyer said that the department store sent an insincere apology and they insisted that she may have been stealing. The hearing continues today. [解析] 第一句话告诉了我们故事的内容An elderly woman yesterday made a legal claim against a department store because it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card．要听懂这句话说的是什么内容首先要理解里面的单词claim，它的意思是“索赔”。为何他要对一个超市进行索赔呢，我们听到后文中说it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card．从这里就可以推断出选项D是正确答案。

单选题 What was said to have been stolen?

A、 A book.
B、＄3,000.
C、 A band bag.
D、 A Christmas card.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 根据原文这句话的意思是说超市认为这个女人偷了a Christmas card，因此选项D是正确答案。

单选题 What happened to Mrs. White after she was taken back to the store?

A、 She was questioned by the police.
B、 She was shut in a small room for 20 minutes.
C、 She was insulted by the shoppers around her.
D、 She was body-searched by the store manager.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 文章中对这个问题讲得很清楚。这位女土was taken back to the store and shut in a small room．因为里面没有难以理解的单词，因此可以很好地捕捉到这句话，那么正确选项是B。

单选题 What was now the attitude of the department store in this legal case?

A、 They refused to apologize for having followed her through the town.
B、 They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.
C、 They still suspected that she was a thief.
D、 They agreed to pay her ＄3,000 damages.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 首先要清楚问题中legal case这个短浯的意思是“案件”。对话中对于这个问题是怎么说的呢?Her lawyer said that the department store sent an insincere apology and they insisted that she may have been stealing．从这句话中，我们可以做出判断，正确答案应当是C。在这句话中，单词insincere的意思是“不真诚的”。