People often hear each others' voices without ever seeing the faces they belong to. "Nowadays we are talking away on the phone without meeting people," says Seung-Jae Moon. And from business conference calls to chat lines, people often imagine they would recognize the speaker if they saw him or her. Seung-Jae Moon, a linguist of Korea found that, under certain conditions, they're actually right.
Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying. He recorded 16 Koreans, half men and half women, reading the same passage, and took a full-body photo and head shot of each speaker. Then he played the tapes for 361 Koreans and 173 Americans who did not speak Korean and asked his subjects to match up voice and picture. The Korean participants viewing full-body photos were quite perceptive. A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men. With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors. That disconnection reveals conflicting ideas of physical and vocal beauty. Moon asked people to pick a favorite face and voice. Seventy percent of the Koreans picked one voice, but there was no agreement on a face. Americans didn' t agree on either count. And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.
Moon hopes to use software to break voices into components like pitch and hoarseness to narrow down which elements trigger certain mental pictures. "If we can map which characteristics of the voice triggers what kind of linage, and it doesn't matter whether that image is the right or wrong one of the actual speaker, then we can create an image through voice,' he says. That capacity could help to create computer-synthesized voices tailored to conjure up specific associations — audio books for children that inspire motherly visages, or warning alerts that bring to mind a stern police officer.
【小題1】People often think that they would ______ the speaker when they saw the speaker.

A.understandB.recognizeC.likeD.surprise
【小題2】Moon decided to do the experiment to ______.
A.see how close mental pictures match up with reality
B.how people speak
C.see if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying
D.both A and C
【小題3】He asked ______ Korean women to speak and recorded their voices.
A.12B.16 C.8D.10
【小題4】______ were more perceptive in recognizing full-body photos.
A.The KoreansB.The American women
C.The Korean womenD.The Americans
【小題5】______ percent of Koreans and Americans matched their favorite face with their favorite voice.
A.Less than 65B.Less than 35C.Over 65D.About 20


【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】A
【小題5】B

解析試題分析:本文主要講述了韓國(guó)人進(jìn)行的一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn),來(lái)檢測(cè)人們能否把聲音和真人相匹配。
【小題1】B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章3,4行And from business conference calls to chat lines, people often imagine they would recognize the speaker if they saw him or her.說(shuō)明人們認(rèn)為他們可以辨認(rèn)出來(lái)對(duì)方。故B正確。
【小題2】D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章6,7行Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying.說(shuō)明作者做這個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)的目的正是為了驗(yàn)證AC兩項(xiàng)的內(nèi)容,故D正確。
【小題3】C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men.說(shuō)明他一共叫了8個(gè)女性來(lái)辨認(rèn),故C正確。
【小題4】A 推理題。根據(jù)With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors.說(shuō)明在這一方面韓國(guó)人表現(xiàn)的筆美國(guó)人要好。故A正確。
【小題5】B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.說(shuō)明超過(guò)百分之65的人沒(méi)有匹配成功,那么少于百分之35的人匹配成功了。故B項(xiàng)說(shuō)法正確。
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點(diǎn)評(píng):本文主要講述了韓國(guó)人進(jìn)行的一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn),來(lái)檢測(cè)人們能否把聲音和真人相匹配。此類文章的最大的障礙是詞匯以及考生對(duì)閱讀內(nèi)容的不熟悉,需要考生在閱讀的時(shí)候有足夠的耐心。要養(yǎng)成在上下文串聯(lián)中猜測(cè)詞義的能力,根據(jù)上下文中出現(xiàn)的同義詞,近義詞,反義詞,以及詞義的解釋來(lái)理解生詞。同時(shí)要抓住文章的中心,不要受其他信息的影響。要根據(jù)題目及選項(xiàng)以及文章的上下文串聯(lián)合理的判斷推理。

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