【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文] I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time. I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many many things in my life that I actually love, I adapt to it. And I get, over time, bored by them. And for sure, in our case, our work started to look the same. You see here a glass eye in a die cut of a book. Quite the similar idea, then, perfume packaged in a book, in a die cut. So I decided to close it down for one year. Also is the knowledge that right now we spend about the first 25 years of our lives learning, then there is another 40 years that's really reserved for working. And then tacked on at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement. And I thought it might be helpful to basically cut off five of those retirement years and separate them in between those working years. That's clearly enjoyable for myself. But probably even more important is that the work that comes out of these years flows back into the company and into society at large, rather than just benefiting a grandchild or two. There is a fellow TEDster who spoke two years ago, Jonathan Haidt, who defined his work into three different levels. And they rang very true for me. I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think is all that really hard work really worth my while? While in the third one, in the calling, very much likely I would do it also if I wouldn't be financially compensated for it. What does the speaker do every seven years? 从选项看此题可能与某人做某件事情有关。录音开头，说话人提到他在纽约经背一家工作室，每7年他就要关店1年去尝试一些新鲜事物。故A正确。 录音开头，说话人提到他在纽约开了间工作室，而不是去纽约旅游，故B错误。说话入的工作室是为音乐人制作视频和设计包装的，并非为某一位歌手写歌，说话人也没说他是作曲家，故C错误。说话人没有透露他想去别的城市开连锁工作室的想法，故D错误。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the speaker think of the retirement years? 从选项看，此题可能跟利用某事物干点什么有关。说话人认为从退休时间里抽出5年，将之分散到工作年限里的话，那将是非常有帮助的，对公司和社会也有利。C的意思与此一致，故正确。 说话人提到提前在工作阶段享受几年的退休时光，能让自己享受生活，并不是利用整个退休时间段享受生活，故A错误。说话人说在工作阶段提前享受都分退休时间，不仅仅使一两个孙辈受益，B利用此处录音中的grandchild编造干扰信息，录音中并未提到“利用退休时间带孙辈不正常”，故排除B。D“利用退休时间再就业多赚钱很聪明”，说话人赞同的是利用退休时间享受生活，而不是去赚钱，故D错误。