I WOULDN’T SNIFF AT THE CHANCE OF A JOB, WHATEVER IT WAS.A.TAKE B.L...
45.I wouldn’t sniff at the chance of a job, whatever it was.
A.take
B.lose
C. be interested
D. be indifferent
Choose 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 human
speech. After all, creatures (46)___________ than humans neither speak human
languages nor comprehend most of them. (47)__________ , scientists who study hearing
have found that the auditory ability of animals and humans respond to speech sounds in
remarkably (48)______ ways. Scientists see hearing in humans and higher animals
(49)_____________ an act of computer-like processing in which a sound enters the ear
and is (50)___________ down into components. These are transported in some coded
form through the nervous system to the brain, (51)________ they are put back together
and interpreted. Scientists believe that, in large part, how speech is processed is
(52)_________ on its acoustical properties. Research with animals shows that they can
among subtle nuances in speech. For example, our ears readily distinguish two similar
speech sounds, “ba” and “da” on the basis of differing pitch changes (54)_______ occur
in the first one-twentieth of a second of sound. During the 1970’s, William Stebbins
conducted (55)_________using monkeys at the University of Michigan Hearing
Research Institute which showed that monkeys possess a similar ability to put similar
sounds into distinct categories.