单项选择题

Passage One Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community． I wasted a lot of time looking for the typical village．Yet no such thing exists．Conditions vary too widely．But the villages I stayed in had much in common poverty, ignorance．Often the villagers themselves were puzzled suspicious．Why had I come I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed．I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else．But to understand how three quarters of the world’s people live，and how their future might affect ours．I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life． In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains．I took the bus from town along a bumpy(崎岖不平的)road，then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river．After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to catch my breath，there was a magnificent view．After several hours’ walk the village came into view． The writer decided to change his way of life because