Question 1 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

Conversation One

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M: Good morning and welcome to People in the News. (1) [With me today is Megan Brown, an environmental activist whose controversial new book Beyond Recycling is making headlines.]

W: Hi Brian, thanks for having me today. I’m excited to explain to the audience what my book is really about.

M: (2) [Critics of your book assert that you’re trying to force radical changes on the entire country.] Some claim that you want to force everyone to eat a vegetarian diet and make private transport illegal. 

W: I’m aware of those claims, but they simply aren’t true. People who haven’t read the book are making assumptions about my arguments. They know I’m a vegetarian, that I don’t wear leather or fur, and that I always use public transportation. So their depicting me as a radical animal rights activist and environmentalist determined to force my beliefs on others.

M: But don’t you want others to adopt your practices? You campaign for animal rights and the environment for decades.

W: I’d love it if people chose to live as I do, but my life choices are based on my personal convictions. They aren’t my recommendations for others who don’t share those convictions.

M: Well, in this excerpt from your book, you argue that meat consumption and private transport are devastating the environment and that the best choices for the planet are vegetarian diets and public transport.

W: I did write that. But those are examples of what I call best practices, not what I’m actually suggesting. In my guidelines for saving the environment, (3) [I suggest modest changes, like eating vegetarian meals two days a week.]

M: You also endorse high taxes on meat and other animal products and increase taxes on gasoline. Those taxes could force poor people to adopt your life choices.

W: But the taxes I suggest aren’t that high, less than 3%, only. (4) [Plus the money generated would be allocated to environmental protection, which benefits everyone.]

1. What do we learn about the woman’s new book? （关于女士的新书，我们能了解到什么？）

解析：A。在录音一开头男士就对女士及其新书进行了介绍：今天请到的是梅根·布朗，一位环保活动者，她的新书《超越回收利用》备受争议（controversial），登上了新闻头条。A项与此内容相符，much controversy对应录音中的controversial，因此选A。

错项排除：B项的favorably received在录音中无依据，故排除。C项利用录音中的vegetarian进行干扰，但录音中是说女士是一位素食主义者（vegetarian），并非说书是为素食者而写，故C项排除。D项利用录音中的environmentalist进行干扰，但录音中是说女士是环保主义者，并非冒犯了环保主义者，故D项排除。