Question 2 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.]

2. What do some critics say about the author of the book?（一些批评人士对这本书的作者有什么看法？）

解析：B。录音中男士提到，这本书的批评者坚称，女士正试图迫使（trying to force）整个国家进行激进的改变（radical changes），其中一些人声称，女士想强迫所有人（force everyone）吃素，并将私人交通定为非法。B项是对此内容的近义概括，因此为正确答案。

错项排除：A项利用录音中的animal进行干扰，但说的是动物权利（animal rights），A项的people’s efforts in animal protection在录音中无依据，故排除。录音中说女士大力提倡公共交通和素食，C项说她忽视公共交通的好处，D项说素食者危害环境，都与录音意思相悖，故均可排除。