【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] 23-30
Woman: London's Savile Row is famous for its independent tailoring shops that have been selling tailored men's clothing along the street since 1623. Today we have the honour to invite Richard Anderson. the owner of one tailoring shop, whose business is profitable, with revenue around ￡1 million. Welcome. Richard.
Man: Thank you.
Woman: Richard, in today's world, does tailoring still have appeal as a career choice?
Man: Actually there has been quite a strong swing back with young kids going into the trade. We're now seen as fashionable. The BBC did a documentary, and it portrayed Savile Row in a really good light. A lot of the kids are sort of seeing the trade and apprenticing as a good way to go. Tuition fees to go to university are high, so this holds good appeal.
Woman: What made you decide to start your own shop?
Man: At 17, I became an apprentice at the famous shop Henry Huntsman & Sons. I learned from tailors who had been at Huntsman for 30 to 40 years, including one who worked for the Queen. I was always fascinated by the fact that each tailor had a specific role. After 25 years at Huntsman and convineed there was still a market for quality tailo red suits, I opened my shop at No.13 Savile Row in 2001, with the idea of carrying on the old techniques with a modern view. You know. Henry Huntsman & Sons had been taken over. New management came on board, and it really was a signal to me. I was still at a young age. I felt that I had gone as far as I could at the time and I thought I could take all that I had learned and put it in a fresh new setting.
Woman: When you first opened, you put an ad in The Wall Street Journal announcing that you would be traveling to the U. S. to receive clients in 11 cities. and you came back with ￡75,000 in orders. This was a winning strategy—what was your thinking?
Man: There is a kind of gentleman's agreement that if you leave a shop you don't go ring up all your clients and bring them on. But my partner had been traveling since he was 16 and had a good following. One guy ordered 10 suits to be supportive. That first trip we came back with a strong book of work before we even opened the shop.
Woman: Today most people buy their clothes off the racks in stores and barely speak to the salesperson. You obviously have deep relationships with your clients—you travel to the U. S., Europe, and Asia for fittings. Is this something that keeps this kind of trade alive?
Man: No one suit is the same. You are taking 19 measures on a person. You chat and get to know the customer, and you put all those ingredients into a pattern and make something quite beautiful for them. I have always traveled to clients. I have to have a person to measure—I can't fit someone online. We are happy to go to the customer—that's what has always been done on Savile Row. We do have an online business, but we only sell things like ties, handkerchiefs, and socks.
Woman: How is your business during the recent global economic crisis?
Man: We've been hit. In the last 18 months, business has slowed about 15%. It's not been disastrous. During the last recession in the 90's when I was at Huntsman, we were very quiet for 18 months—and there was also the Gulf War. I remember my boss saying he'd hardly seen a customer for a year. Then it got a bit better, and people came in and ordered three suits at a time. We went from recession to boom in a very short period of time, and I think that will happen again. We had a very good business last week.
Woman: I wish your business better and better. Well. I'm afraid we'll have to finish there. Thank you so much for talking to us today.

[要点] 考查干扰信息的排除能力。女士问道“…does tailoring still have appeal as a career choice?” Richard答道“A lot of the kids are sort of seeing the trade and apprenticing as a good way to go. Tuition fees to go to university are high, so this holds good appeal.”即：许多孩子注意到并且开始欣赏这个行业，原因在于大学的学费较高。A、C项是干扰选项。
[注意] tuition fees意为“学费”。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[要点] 考查对细节和语篇整体的把握。解题的关键信息是“At 17, I became an apprentice…After 25 years at Huntsman and convinced there was still a market for quality tailored suits. I opened my shop at No.13 Savile Row in 2001.”B项说Richard在17岁时成为裁缝，C项说Richard在Huntsman工作了30年，都和原文相矛盾。A项说Richard在42岁时开了自己的店，这是正确的，因为他17岁时在Huntsman当学徒，在那里工作了25年，然后出来开店。
[注意] 考生要在听之前细心阅读选项，听的过程中留意细节。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[要点] 考查对语篇整体的把握情况。题干问的是Richard自己开店的原因。解题的关键信息是“I opened my shop at No.13 Savile Row in 2001, with the idea of carrying on the old techniques with a modern view….New management came on board, and it really was a signal to me.”可见，Richard开店的原因是想用现代的管理方法来经营传统的手工制衣业，即B项所讲的内容。
[注意] Richard也提到：Henry Huntsman &Sons had been taken over,即A项，但这并不是主要原因。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[要点] 考查排除干扰信息的能力。题干问的是开店前Richard做了什么。原文中的关键信息“… would be traveling to the U. S. to receive clients in 11 cities…”可以帮助排除B项，“There is a kind of gentleman's agreement that if you leave a shop you don't go ring up all your clients…”可以帮助排除A项，“you came back with ￡75,000 in orders.”说明C项是正确的。
[注意] 本题的关键信息主要出现在女士的问话中，考生不能只留意Richard的回答而忽视女主持人的问题。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[要点] 考查排除干扰信息的能力。解题的关键信息是“Today most people buy their clothes off the racks in stores…”即：现在多数人喜欢买现成的衣服，B项是正确答案。A、C项是干扰选项。
[注意] clothes off the racks意为“现成的衣服”。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[要点] 考查排除干扰信息的能力。对话中女主持人问道“Is this something that keeps this kind of trade alive?” Richard回答了很多，关键信息是“You chat and get to know the customer…I have to have a person to measure.”因此，B、C项都是包含在内的，A项不在其中。
[注意] 考生要正确理解We do have an online business, but we only sell things like ties, handkerchiefs, and socks.这句话，说明网上业务只占生意的很小一部分。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[要点] 考查对细节的理解能力。对话中女主持人问道“How is your business during the recent global economic crisis?” Richard答道“We've been hit. In the last 18 months, business has slowed about 15%. It's not been disastrous.”因此，A项“生意没受影响”，B项“生意受到很大影响”应该排除。
[注意] disastrous意为“灾难性的”。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[要点] 考查排除干扰信息的能力。题目中的关键词是In the 90's recession,即：在20世纪90年代的经济萧条中。B项的内容是目前经济危机中的情况，A项是Richard的老板一年只有一个客人光顾，这和原文的“I remember my boss saying he'd hardly seen a customer for a year”的意思有出入。C项是Henry Huntsman & Sons经历了18个月的危机才得以复苏，这和文中“we were very quiet for 18 months…Then it got a bit better, and people came in and ordered three suits at a time.”传递的信息是一致的。
[注意] 观察题目内容和对话可以发现，题目基本上都是按照对话进行的自然顺序设计的，即：前面的题目一般出题点都在对话的前半部分，后面的题目则来源于对话的后半部分。在此提醒考生注意这个规律。