I WOULDN’T SNIFF AT THE CHANCE OF A JOB, WHATEVER IT WAS.I WOULD...

45.I wouldn’t sniff at the chance of a job, whatever it was.A.take B.lose C. be interested D. be indifferentChoose the correct option A, B, C, or D to fill each blank to complete the passage.It may seem unlikely that monkeys or cats would be able to hear the subtleties in humanspeech. After all, creatures (46)___________ than humans neither speak humanlanguages nor comprehend most of them. (47)__________ , scientists who study hearinghave found that the auditory ability of animals and humans respond to speech sounds inremarkably (48)______ ways. Scientists see hearing in humans and higher animals(49)_____________ an act of computer-like processing in which a sound enters the earand is (50)___________ down into components. These are transported in some codedform through the nervous system to the brain, (51)________ they are put back togetherand interpreted. Scientists believe that, in large part, how speech is processed is(52)_________ on its acoustical properties. Research with animals shows that they canamong subtle nuances in speech. For example, our ears readily distinguish two similarspeech sounds, “ba” and “da” on the basis of differing pitch changes (54)_______ occurin the first one-twentieth of a second of sound. During the 1970’s, William Stebbinsconducted (55)_________using monkeys at the University of Michigan HearingResearch Institute which showed that monkeys possess a similar ability to put similarsounds into distinct categories.