16.A) The shopping mall has been deserted recently.
    B) Shoppers can only find good stores in the mall.
    C) Lots of people moved out of the downtown area.
    D) There isn’t much business downtown nowadays.
    M：Kate, why does the downtown area look deserted now?
    W：Well, there used to be some really good stores, but lots of them moved out to the mall.
    Q：What do we learn from the conversation?
    [答案]D)。[聽(tīng)前猜測(cè)]選項(xiàng)中出現(xiàn)了shopping mall，shoppers，downtown，business等詞語(yǔ)，因此推測(cè)本題與購(gòu)物相關(guān)。[精解]對(duì)話中男士問(wèn)為什么市區(qū)看上去十分蕭條，女士解釋說(shuō)以前的確有一些不錯(cuò)的店鋪，但是很多都搬到商業(yè)街去了?？梢?jiàn)，四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中僅有D)的表述正確，故答案是D)。