Question 13 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

M: Miss Yamada, (13) did you ever think that you would find yourself living and working in the western world?

W: (13) No, not really, although I've always listened to recordings of great orchestras from Europe.

M: (13) So you enjoyed classical music even when you were very young?

W: (13) Oh, yes. I was only a child.

M: You were born in 1955. Is that right?

W: Yes, (14) I began violin lessons at school when I was 6.

M: As young as that. Did you like it?

W: Oh, yes. Very much.

M: When did you first play on your own? I mean, when did you give your first performance?

W: I think I was 8...? No, 9. I just had my birthday a week before, and my father had bought me a new violin. I played a small piece at the school concert.

M: Did you know then that you would become a professional violinist?

W: Yes, I think so. I enjoy playing the violin very much, and I didn't mind practicing, sometimes three or four hours a day.

M: And when did you first come to Europe?

W: I was very lucky. When I was fifteen, I won a scholarship to a college in Paris. That was for a three-year course.

M: How did your parents feel about that?

W: I think they were pleased and worried at the same time. (15) It was the chance of a lifetime. But of course I would be thousands of miles from home. Anyway, I studied in Paris for three years and then went back to Tokyo.

(13). What do we know about the woman before she went to Europe?

解析：细节理解题。问题为：我们都知道些关于女士来欧洲前的什么事情？根据原文前四段对话，男士问女士以前有没有想过在西方生活和工作，女士说未曾想过，但以前一直听管弦乐队的唱片，男士追问女士是不是从小就喜欢古典音乐，而女士回答是的。因此从原文可知，女士从小开始就一直听欧洲管弦乐队的唱片，D项（她听过很多欧洲管弦乐队的唱片）正确。