标准听力(四)—标准听力(六)(2)

lots of business opportunities in Silicon Valley.
[C] Silicon Valley is the world’s best place for studying.
[D] There are numerous schools in Silicon Valley.

25. [A] It makes their life easier.
[B] It brings more opportunities to them.
[C] It brings them more advanced technology.
[D] It brings them more competition and challenges.

Section B
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. [A] To cool down. [B] To protect the boy.
[C] To frighten it away. [D] To get ready to fight.

27. [A] They are afraid of noises. [B] They hesitate before they hit.
[C] They are bigger than we think.[D] They like to attack running people.

28. [A] By keeping shouting and hitting.
[B] By making a wall with his arms.
[C] By throwing himself on the cougar.
[D] By swinging his fists at the cougar’s eyes.

29. [A] Jeb held Tom across his body.
[B] Jeb asked Tom to get the knife.
[C] Tom struggled free of his father.
[D] The cougar jumped from the rock.

Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. [A] To see her mother’s quilts.
[B] To help prepare for a show.
[C] To discuss her grandmother’s life.
[D] To get together for the family dinner.

31. [A] The quilt looked very strange.
[B] Her grandmother liked the quilt.
[C] The quilt was the best she had seen.
[D] Her mother had made some changes.

32. [A] A quilt show. [B] The mother’s home.
[C] The grandmother’s quilt. [D] A Monday family dinner.

Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. [A] She has been Queen for many years.
[B] She has a less upper-class accent now.
[C] Her speeches are familiar to many people.
[D] Her speeches have been recorded for 50 years.

34. [A] Dutay. [B] Citee.
[C] Hame. [D] Lorst.

35. [A] The changes in a person’s accent.
[B] The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.
[C] The recent development of the English language.
[D] The relationship between accents and social classes.

Section C
The idea behind the “rule of law” is that impartial laws, not human beings with their (36) ________ and arbitrary tastes and judgments, should govern the formal aspects of social (37) ________.
“We live under a rule of law, not of men,” American teachers tell their students. The students accept the idea. They believe that “no man is above the law,” that laws apply (38) ________ to all people, (39) ________ of their wealth, personal connections, or stations in life. Their faith in the rule of law explains the (40) ________ many Americans held, and many foreigners could not understand: the President Richard Nixon should be (41) ________ from of
fice as a result of his behavior in connection with what was called the “Watergate Scandal”. Nixon had broken the law and therefore should be pu