【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
W: I see you are doing a research on Virginia Woolf. Can you tell me something about her?
M: Sure. To me, Virginia Woolf is the most important person of the twentieth century. Even though she was born in the nineteenth century, her writings inspired several generations of twentieth-century feminists.
W: Oh, really? What was her childhood like?
M: Her father had a large library, which Virginia had the free run of. She didn't attend school, and reading her father's books gave her a different perspective on the world.
W: She wrote a lot of fictions, right?
M: Yes, she wrote fictions from 1912 to 1941. During this time, she also wrote works of literary criticism and social comment. These works gave her the opportunity to express her feminist ideas.
W: I will always remember something that I learned about Virginia Woolf when I studied in school. She said if Shakespeare had had a sister, his sister would never have had the same chance to be a writer because she had no right to read or go to school. All she could do was to stay at home, care for the household, and marry a wealthy man when she reached a certain age. She couldn't choose what she wanted to do. This was not true for Shakespeare's sister, but it was true for lots of women everywhere.
M: But Virginia wasn't angry; she didn't blame men directly. Rather, she used subtle irony in her works to make her points. In this way, she influenced women of the twentieth century and helped change the way they think.