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.