Passage Three
The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing but nonsense, as in their hearts they must surely know. The village is not dead. There is more life in it now than there ever was. [32]But it seems that "village life" is dead. Gone for ever. It began to decline about a hundred years ago, when many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing numbers in search of work. There are still a number of people alive today who can remember what "village life" meant. [33]It meant knowing and being known by everybody else in the village. It meant finding your entertainment in the village of within walking distance of it. It meant housewives tied to the home all day and every day. It meant going to bed early to save lamp oil and coal.
[34]Then came the First World War and the Second World War. After each war, new ideas, new attitudes, new trades and occupations were revealed to villagers. The long-established order of society was no longer taken for granted. Electricity and the motorcar were steadily operating to make "village life" and "town life" almost alike. Now with the highly developed science and technology and high-level social welfare for all, there is no point whatever in talking any longer about "village life". [35]It is just life, and a better life.

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. Why do some young people say that the village is dead?
正確答案：D
解析：D是原文的同義概括，故正確。
33. How was the life of villagers in the past?
正確答案：A
解析：推斷題。短文中對life of villagers in the past有這樣的一段描述：你和村子里的人很熟；你可以步行在附近找到娛樂活動；家庭主婦們每天被拴在家里；為了省油和煤，人們每天很早休息。這樣的生活顯然比如今的鄉村生活簡單多了，由此直接推斷A為正確答案。
34. In the speaker's view, what brought about the change of "village life" today?
正確答案：D
解析：推斷題?！懊恳粓鰬馉幹蟠迕駛兌紩佑|到新的觀念、態度和新的貿易、職業”，而這些東西帶來的結果則是：陳舊的社會體系受到挑戰和沖擊，新的變革產生（比如文中稍后提到的新能源、新科技在鄉村的使用），由此推斷D為正確答案。A、B是鄉村變化的結果而不是原因；C和the change of village life today并不構成因果關系。
35. What does the speaker think of the "village life" today?
正確答案：C
解析：細節題。短文在最后對鄉村生活做了一個總結“It is just life, and a better life”（這就是生活，更好的生活）。故答案為C。