[单项选择]The man sounds
A. surprised.
B. ignorant.
C. humorous.
D. disappointed.

[单项选择]The man sounds
A. surprised.
B. ignorant.
C. humorous.
D. disappointed.

[单项选择]The man sounds surprised at the fact that
A. many Australians are taking time off to travel.
B. the woman worked for some time in New Zealand.
C. the woman raised enough money for travel.
D. Australians prefer to work in New Zealand.

[单项选择]What does the man mean when be says "It sounds like you’ve been reading 1984"（）
A. He means that the woman is pessimistic.
B. He means that the woman is reading the novel 1984.
C. He means that the woman is practical.
D. He means that the woman should learn something new.

[单项选择]Practically all animals communicate through sounds.
A. Clearly
B. Almost
C. Absolutely
D. Basically

[单项选择]The stethoscope transmits and amplifies sounds from localized areas of the body, thus making them -------to hear and identify
A. easier than
B. as easy as
C. easies so that
D. easier

[单项选择]What does the man meanWhat does the man mean
A. He also smokes when he is nervous.
B. He agrees that the woman should smoke.
C. He thinks that smoking is bad for health.

[单项选择]Beside the pleasurable sounds of music and expressive feeling that it（）, music does exist in terms of notes themselves and of their manipulation.
A. gives away
B. gives off
C. gives up
D. gives in

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If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot of pop vocals suddenly sound great. Better than great: note- and pitch-perfect, as if there’s been an unspoken tightening of standards at record labels or an evolutionary leap in the development of vocal cords. At the other extreme are a few hip-hop singers who also hit their notes but with a precision so exaggerated that on first listen, their songs sound comically artificial, like a chorus of 50s robots singing Motown.
The force behind both trends is an ingenious plug-in called Auto-Tune, a downloadable studio trick that can take a vocal and instantly nudge it onto the proper note or move it to the correct pitch. It’s like Photoshop for the human voice. Auto-Tune doesn’t make it possible for just
A. Dixie Chicks.
B. Metallica.
C. Diddy.
D. Prince.