2025年12月英语六级（第3套 · 含听力）选词填空

It's best to think of an accent as a distinct, systematic and rule-governed way of speaking. Accent is not a __26__ for dialect, but it's related. Dialect is an umbrella term for the way a community pronounces words, creates words, and orders words; accent refers to that first part only.
Many __27__ presume that there is a single standard way of speaking in each country, with one single standard accent, and that this perceived standard is __28__ the best form of speech, but linguists often point out that the concept of a standard accent is better understood as an ideal rather than a __29__. In other words, no one speaks "standard English"; rather, it is an imagined way of using language that exists only in grammar and style books.
One reason linguists agree there is no one true standard is that, through the years, there have been __30__ supposed standards, depending on time and place. The standard for English in British newsreels from the 1950s, for example, differs greatly from the standard found on American national news broadcasts today. In fact, there has never been a single standard that's been fully agreed upon — and broadcast outlets across the __31__ have never consistently held to those standards anyway.
Even so, this idea of a standard accent is __32__ and many workplace and educational environments perpetuate the idea that accents that __33__ from the current standard are less appropriate, or even inappropriate. Scholars have found that southern U.S. accent features are more accepted in __34__ such as government, law and service-oriented workplaces, but less accepted in the technology sector. The acceptability of nonstandard accents may __35__ with differences in class and culture, with newer or higher prestige industries expecting more standard speech in the workplace.