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  3. A linguist is a always listening, never off-duty. I invited a group of friends round to my house telling them that I was going t

A linguist is a always listening, never off-duty. I invited a group of friends round to my house telling them that I was going t

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问题     A linguist is a always listening, never off-duty. I invited a group of friends round to my house telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape recorder in the middle of the floor. They sat down, and I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from 1 to 20. Then we could relax and have a drink.
    I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn counted from 1 to 20 in their best accents. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks. For the rest of the evening there was general jolly conversation spoilt only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.
    As a matter of fact, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.
    Of course, I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the event was over, and gave them the option of destroying the tape. But none of them wanted to.
Why did the writer leave the room in the middle of the evening?
选项 A、He had to make a phone call.
B、He did not like being criticized.
C、He had to talk with someone in another room.
D、He wanted the others to have a conversation without him.
答案D
解析 本题是细节题。从第3段最后一句“And my lengthy absence meant that I wasable to obtain as natural a piece of conversationas it would be possible to find”，可以看出D项是正确的，其大意是：我长时间离开，意味着能够获得尽可能自然的对话语料。
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