【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文]
Today, I want to tell you about my life in the past. Twenty years ago, I was a boy. At that time, things were different. Usually I had to get up at six every morning. That was not very bad in summer, but in winter it was cold. And we didn"t have any hot water in the house. We had to wash in cold water. We didn"t have a bathroom. My mother had many chickens. I had to feed them every morning and then I had to walk to school with other classmates. It was two miles to school and two miles back in the evening. But it always seemed longer in the morning when we were going to school. There was a bus, but I had no money. And we had to go to bed at eight o"clock every night. We couldn"t watch TV because there wasn"t any. On Sundays we had to go to cut grasses for pigs two times—morning and afternoon. In our free time we could go out and our parents didn"t have to worry about us.
At that time there weren"t so many motors on the roads, so the streets were safe to play in. And there were not many robbers and thieves in those days. We had to work hard and we were not able to have enough money to buy things which we needed. Life was hard, but it was simple and people were happier. I often look back to the past.