Question 19 is based on the passage you have just heard.

听力原文：

    Well, if I could go back in history and live, I’d like to go back to the 18th century and perhaps in colonial America in Yankee, New England, where one of my ancestors lived, (19) because it was the beginning of something.

    By the 18th century, there was a feeling of community that had grown. My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside. People lived in small communities. There were fishermen and farmers who provided fresh food that tasted and looked like food, unlike that in today’s supermarkets, and there were small towns, and New York wasn’t that far away. I’m deeply attached to the Puritan tradition, not in a religious sense, (20) but they believed in working for something, working for goals, and I like that.

    They worked hard at whatever they did, but they had a sense of achievement. They believed in goodness in community and helping one another. I love the colonial fabrics, all the silver work, the furnishings, the combination of elegance and simplicity. I love it. The printing, the books, I’m very attached to all that kind of thing that may not all be very entertaining in the modern sense of the world. But I would have enjoyed spending my evenings in that environment, discussing new ideas, building a new world. (21) And I can see myself sitting on a small chair by the fire doing needlework.

19. Why does the speaker say she would like to go back and live in the 18th century America?

解析：C。本题为细节题。问题为：为什么作者说她想要回到过去，生活在18世纪的美国？根据原文“because it was the beginning of something.”，可见原因在于那是新事物的开端。选项C) It marked the beginning of something new.与原文信息一致。虽然录音中提到ancestor，但原文中说的是“我的祖先之一曾今住过那里”，选项A) It was when her ancestors came to America.（那是她祖先来到美国的时候）与原文不符。