【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] W: I know it's early but do you know anything about our first assignment? M: Yes, it's already up on the economics faculty notice board. There's a choice of essays up there. I think there are about 10 topics you can choose from. I can't remember any of the titles though, apart from the one that I think I'm going to write about. W: What's that one, then? M: It's about the short term future of third world economies. W: Oh. I don't like the sound of that. It seems very wide ranging. M: It is, but remember that I traveled through parts of Africa and Asia during the summer vacation, so that has made me more interested in the subject, and also given me some first hand ideas on the subject. W: Does the essay list mention how long the essays have to be and the deadlines? M: Yes. You remember that last year all the essays had to be 3,000 words in length? Well, that's gone up by a thousand words! W: Oh no! That'll take ages. M: I know. I was hoping that they'd stay at 3,000 words or only go up to 3,500, but no luck, I'm afraid. W: I'm going to get onto that straight away. M: Yes, you'd better. If you want to talk about it, I'm going to be at the campus cafeteria at 1:30 for lunch. We could go over some questions. W: I can't then, as I'm going to the sports hall to work out. How about 3 this afternoon in the economics common room? M: That should be OK. We'll be right by the economics course office where the questions are, so that'll be convenient for checking the titles. W: OK. See you then. Bye. M: Bye. What topic is the man going to write about? [考点] 细节题。 录音中男士提到“It's about the short-term future of third-world economies.”，由此可知他的题目是关于世界经济的，故答案为B项。