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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.

1.People often think that they would ______ the speaker when they saw the speaker.

A．understand        B．recognize         C．like              D．surprise

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

3.He asked ______ Korean women to speak and recorded their voices.

A．12               B．16               C．8                D．10

4.______ were more perceptive in recognizing full-body photos.

A．The Koreans                           B．The American women

C．The Korean women                      D．The Americans

5.______ percent of Koreans and Americans matched their favorite face with their favorite voice.

A．Less than 65       B．Less than 35       C．Over 65           D．About 20

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.A

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲述了韩国人进行的一个实验，来检测人们能否把声音和真人相匹配。

1.B 细节题。根据文章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.说明人们认为他们可以辨认出来对方。故B正确。

2.D 细节题。根据文章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.说明作者做这个实验的目的正是为了验证AC两项的内容，故D正确。

3.C 细节题。根据A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men.说明他一共叫了8个女性来辨认，故C正确。

4.A 推理题。根据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.说明在这一方面韩国人表现的笔美国人要好。故A正确。

5.B 细节题。根据And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.说明超过百分之65的人没有匹配成功，那么少于百分之35的人匹配成功了。故B项说法正确。

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