【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] Young mums shopping in the Copley Mall in downtown Boston last month found themselves being questioned about their use of soap by students from Harvard Business School, usually known as HBS. The students were not doing odd jobs to earn beer money. They were preparing to help a firm in Brazil launch an antibacterial cleanser. The 900 students arriving in Boston this summer for their two-year course were told that they would be subjects. The new practical addition to HBS's curriculum is known as 'FIELD' that stands for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. Not all the staff and students were overjoyed to be experimented on. But the man responsible, Nitin Nohria, who became dean of HBS in July 2010, says that 'if it works, the FIELD method could become an equal partner to the case method. ' What happens in the second year of the new course is still being worked out. But the first year has three elements. First, team-building exercises. Students take turns to lead a group engaged in a project. They learn to collaborate and to give and take feedback. Second, students will be sent to work for a week with one of more than 140 firms in 11 countries. In the third part of the course, students will be given eight weeks, and seed money of $3, 000 each, to launch a small company. The most successful, as voted by their fellow students, will get more funding. The experiment does not come cheap, adding 5-10% to the course's cost, which HBS will bear while it figures out what works. Why did the students ask people about their use of soap? 此题问学生为什么询问人们有关肥皂的使用。短文中提到They were preparing to help a firm in Brazil launch an antibacterial cleanser. 即“学生们正在为帮助一家巴西的公司推广抗菌洗涤用品而做准备”，由此可知，学生们最有可能正在做的事情是搜集相关信息，所以选项B为答案。