Long conversation 1
Q1: B Having friendly colleagues
解析：原文中前半部分男士說到：“The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues.” 對于大部分接受采訪的人來說，最重要的因素是擁有友好的、互相支持的同事們。

Q2：B 20%
解析：原文中部男士說到：“However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.” 20%的員工說他們工作得不開心。

Q3：A those of a small size
解析：后半部男士提到：“First of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.” 首先小就是好：人們絕對偏愛在少于100人的小公司工作。

Q4：C They can better balance work and life
解析：原文中男士說到：“And workers on part-time contracts, who only work 4 or 5 hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time. The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.” 每天工作4、5個小時的兼職人員比全職人員要開心，這可能是由于一種更好的工作與生活之間的平衡。

Long conversation 2
Q5：D It is a collection of photos.
解析：原文前部分男士提到：“In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water.” 在2006年，布魯日城市音樂廳請我?guī)退麄兺瓿梢粋€以水為主題的攝影系列。所以這本書是一個攝影系列。

Q6: C When taking pictures for a concert catalogue.
解析：原文前部分男士提到：“In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water.” 在2006年，布魯日城市音樂廳請我?guī)退麄兺瓿梢粋€以水為主題的攝影系列。所以是在拍攝這個系列時產(chǎn)生的靈感。

Q7：A The entire European coastline will be submerged.
解析：原文中部提到：“It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water.” 很明確，整個歐洲海岸線的消失只是時間的問題，由此判斷出正確答案。

Q8：D Tourists use wooden paths to reach their hotels in the morning.
解析：文章結(jié)尾提到：“Also, Venice, the city eternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.” 威尼斯全程都被海洋威脅著，每天早上人們都要搭上木橋，游客們才能順利到達旅館。

Passage 1
Q9: C they spend too much time anticipating their defeat
解析：原文第一句說到：“When facing a new situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.” 當面臨新的挑戰(zhàn)， 人們總花很多時間去想最壞的情況。由此得出正確答案。

Q10：D Thinking has the same effect on the nervous system as doing
解析：原文提到：“Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system the same way as actually doing something.” 斯坦福大學發(fā)布的研究表明，心理暗示對神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)作用巨大，會最終導致同樣的結(jié)果。

Q11：C Picture themselves succeeding
解析：由文中年輕律師成功的例子得出正確答案。

Q12：B She won her first jury trail
解析：根據(jù)文中年輕律師成功的例子得出正確答案。

Passage 2
Q 13: C It helps people to avoid developing breast cancer
解析：文章前部分提到：“Telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age.” 攝入大量高纖維食品合一降低中年時期患乳腺癌的概率。

Q14：D It tracked their eating habits since their adolescence
解析：文章中間提到：“It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer.” 研究發(fā)現(xiàn)青春期攝入越多纖維的女性在未來患乳腺癌的概率越低。所以答案是這項研究從她們青春期開始追蹤的。

Q15：A Fiber may help to reduce hormones in the body
解析：文章后半部分提到：“The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels,” 研究表明長期實驗的證據(jù)表明纖維可以降低女性體內(nèi)的荷爾蒙。

Lecture 1
Q16:B Conducting research on consumer behaviour
解析：原文第一句提到：“Well my current research is really about consumer behavior.” 最近我在關(guān)注消費者行為這個課題。

Q17：D It is an act of socialisting
解析：文章中部提到：“One of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people say between the ages of 18 and 24 is all about the social activity.” 我的一項發(fā)現(xiàn)是年齡在18至24歲的人喝酒是出于社交原因。

Q18：A They spent a week studying their own purchasing bahaviour.
解析：文章最后提到：“l(fā)ast year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasing and analyzed it in detail from shopping to the relationship that they have with their retail banks and their mobile phone providers.” 去年我的學生花了一周時間去關(guān)注、分析他們的購物情況，以及他們和銀行、手機制造商的關(guān)系。

Lecture 2
Q19: D It is likely to give up paper money in the near future
解析：在聽力原文中說到Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies. 瑞典是歐洲第一個印刷并使用紙幣的國家，但可能不久就會停止使用。

Q20：C whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend more
解析：在聽力原文中說到Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago. Barrett想知道不帶現(xiàn)金是否會導致人們花更多的錢，所以幾個月前她決定做一個實驗。

Q21：C the restaurant car accepted cash only
解析：在聽力原文中說到On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards. The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash. 在火車上，她發(fā)現(xiàn)餐車不接受信用卡消費，結(jié)果車上便充滿了呻吟因為很多乘客都沒有帶現(xiàn)金。

Q22：A By putting into envelopes
解析：在聽力原文中說到My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes— they'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week. 我父母那一代，當他們年輕的時候，他們會把錢放進信封里來做預算。當他們拿到工資后，他們便立馬把現(xiàn)金分為幾份并放進信封，這樣他們就能知道每周要花多少錢。

Lecture 3
Q23：B Chrome hunger
解析：原文提到：“So let’s start with a few problems. Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry.” 讓我們先來說幾個問題?，F(xiàn)在有上十億人長期處于饑餓狀態(tài)。

Q24：B About half of them are unintended
解析：在聽力原文中說到About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended.全球有近五成意外受孕。

Q25：A It is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth
解析：原文提到：“It’s not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species. Demography also includes the study of non-living objects.” 人口統(tǒng)計學，不僅是關(guān)于人類的種群，也關(guān)乎于非人類種群，還包括無生命的對象。由此可見，人口問題對所有物種來說都是必要的。