A
[听力原文]
W: It's almost vacation time. Have you found a summer job yet?
M: I suppose I can work at the boy's camp where I worked last summer. But camp jobs don't pay much.
W: I think I can get a job at the Edgewater Hotel. A friend of mine was a waiter there last summer. The pay wasn't t good, but he got lots of tips.
M: My sister worked there last summer, making beds and cleaning bathrooms. She didn't like it, but she earned quite a lot of money.
W: A friend of my sister's did that one summer.
M: What I want is a job outside. After sitting in college classes all winter, I'd like a job in the open air.
W: The high school kids earn a lot of money every summer cutting grass. My brother is only fourteen, but he gets five dollars every time he cuts somebody's grass, and it only takes him an hour. He just rides around on the machine that he bought, and the machine does all the work.
M: That's pretty good. I used to cut grass when I was in high school. But now I thought I might work for a road-building company, or something like that.
W: It would be a good experience. You could earn a lot, too.
When did the conversation take place?
[解析] 细节推理题。对话开始时,这位女士说“It's almost vacation time.”也就是说,还没有放暑假,快要到暑假了,是在暑假前的一段对话。因此正确答案为A。