Question

For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil (锡纸), Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have discovered a recording of the human voice which is nearly two ___1.___earlier than Edison's invention of the phonograph.

The 10-second recording of a singer crooning (轻声歌唱)  the folk song  "Au Clair de la Lune"  was discovered earlier this month in an   ___2.___ in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds ___3.___, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable---converted from squiggles (潦草的字迹) on paper to sound---by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

"This is a  ___4.___find, the earliest known recording of sound," said Samuel Brylawski, the former head of the recorded-sound division of the Library of Congress, who is not ___5.___with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. The audio discovery could give new   ___6.___ to the phonautograph, and its inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville,  a Parisian typesetter who went to his grave   ___7.___that credit for his breakthroughs had been ___8.___bestowed on Edison.

The recordings made by Scott were not intended for listening; the idea of audio  ___9.__ had not been conceived.  Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be___10.___.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.decades 

2.archive  

3.visually

4.historic 

5.affiliated  

6.primacy  

7.convinced 

8.improperly   

9.playback   

10.interpreted

【解析】

试题分析：

1.decades 这个发明比爱迪生的发明几乎要早20年。名词decade十年。

2.archive 名词档案馆archive;指这个记录这个月早些时候被巴黎的一个档案馆里被发现。

3.visually 副词visually形象化地；指这个记录听起来很形象很生动。

4.historic 形容词historic指有重大历史意义的，指这是一个有重大历史意义的发现。

5.affiliated  固定搭配be affiliated with…与…有联系；

6.primacy  名词primacy领先性，首位，重要性；这个新的发现证明了它的领先性和重要性。

7.convinced 动词convince使…相信，说服…；构成短语be convinced of…相信…。

8.improperly   副词improperly不恰当地，做状语修饰整个谓语部分。

9.playback   名词playback指倒带，重放。

10.interpreted 动词interpret解释，翻译；本句是被动语态，所以使用过去分词的形式。

考点：考查选词填空

点评：本题考查考生在上下文语境中运用语法和词汇的能力，特别应注意名词单复数的变化，动词时态语态的变化，形容词和副词的变化，以及虚拟语气等具体语法的使用。