Question 4 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.]

4. What does the woman say about her suggested tax increase?（关于她的增税建议，女士说了什么？）

解析：A。在录音最后女士提到，增加税收所产生的资金将用于环境保护，这对所有人都有利。A项符合题意，其中的protect the environment是对录音中environmental protection的同义替换，故为正确答案。

错项排除：B项利用录音中的the money generated进行干扰，但public health在录音中无依据，故排除。C项的support from the general public在录音中无依据，故排除。录音中提到这些税收可能会迫使穷人接受女士的生活选择，但这是男士说的，并非女士的观点，故D项排除。