精剖细析：

29. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

答案：B) The changing roles played by men and women。

解析：主旨题。主要考察考生对主旨的理解。注意这里A选项容易让人混淆。首句中的old stereotypes会误导考生去选A。但A选项并不完整。文章不是讲老套传统的男女观念。而是对此的一个质疑，传统男女的角色正在不断改变。这也是六级做题的一个技巧。选项中出现和文章有关的重点单词，并不一定就是答案。选项还是都得仔细阅读。

30. What might women do at office meetings nowadays according to the speaker?

答案：A) Offer more creative and practical ideas than men。

解析：细节题。此题不难，关键词"office meetings’，文章中直接给出了"they might speak up more often, express strong opinions and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues."排除其他选项。

31. Why did the speaker mow the lawn herself that morning?

答案：C) To show that women are capable of doing what men do。

解析：推断题。题目问主人公为什么要自己来修整草坪。文章最后是以一段对话体现。此题需要简单推理。首先主人公很明确的表示自己认为传统男女的关系及角色扮演正在不断改变，女性可以做好传统观念里男人应该做的事。 自己女儿就是一个很好的例子，是焊接工(welder)，而女儿男友则是律师事务所的前台接待。那么必然推断出作者本身自己的行为举止也是贯彻自己的这一想法。推断选C，排除其他选项。

Passage Three

听力原文

Florence Hayes is a journalist for the Green Ville Journal, the daily newspaper in town. Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area. This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital. Most of the crimes that she writes about fall into two groups: violent crimes and crimes against property. There isn’t much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas. But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown. There’re also one or two rapes on campus every semester. Florence is very interested in this type of crime and tries to write a long article about each one. She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night

Fortunately, there were usually no murders in Green Ville. Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes’ reporting. They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum. Miss Hayes enjoys working for a newspaper but she sometimes gets unhappy about all the crime she has to report. She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics, maybe next year

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