參考答案:
【小題23】C
【小題24】D
【小題24】B
習題解析:
【小題23】聽力原文中提到 Most of the universities which appeared between 1640 and 1750 form the Ivy League, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and several others,指出 1640 至 1750 年間興起的常春藤聯盟包括哈佛大學、耶魯大學、哥倫比亞大學、布朗大學、普林斯頓大學、賓夕法尼亞大學等
【小題24】聽力原文中提到 Education reformers such as Horace Mann of Massachusetts began calling for public education systems for all,指出 Horace Mann 呼吁公共教育面向所有人開放,隨后提到他幫助創建了全國范圍內的“公共學校”系統,其主要信條是每個人都應享有同等受教育的權利 。由此可知,D 項表述符合聽力原文,故選 D 。
【小題25】聽力原文中提到 It was obvious that the introduction of strict child labor laws and growing acceptance of higher education in general in the early 20th century caused the number of high school graduates to rise quickly.由此可見,促使高中畢業生人數大量增長的原因在于嚴格的童工保護法的施行和人們對于高等教育的接受程度整體提升,但是這并不限于富人,因而 C 項表述與原文不符,B 項表述正確 。其他兩項聽力中并未提及,可排除 。