For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil (锡纸), Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have discovered a recording of the human voice which is nearly two ___小题1:___earlier than Edison's invention of the phonograph.
The 10-second recording of a singer crooning (轻声歌唱) the folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" was discovered earlier this month in an ___小题2:___ in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds ___小题3:___, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable---converted from squiggles (潦草的字迹) on paper to sound---by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"This is a ___小题4:___find, the earliest known recording of sound," said Samuel Brylawski, the former head of the recorded-sound division of the Library of Congress, who is not ___小题5:___with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. The audio discovery could give new ___小题6:___ to the phonautograph, and its inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter who went to his grave ___小题7:___that credit for his breakthroughs had been ___小题8:___bestowed on Edison.
The recordings made by Scott were not intended for listening; the idea of audio ___小题9:__ had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be___小题10:___.
小题1:decades
小题2:archive
小题3:visually
小题4:historic
小题5:affiliated
小题6:primacy
小题7:convinced
小题8:improperly
小题9:playback
小题10:interpreted
题目分析:
小题1:decades 这个发明比爱迪生的发明几乎要早20年。名词decade十年。
小题2:archive 名词档案馆archive;指这个记录这个月早些时候被巴黎的一个档案馆里被发现。
小题3:visually 副词visually形象化地;指这个记录听起来很形象很生动。
小题4:historic 形容词historic指有重大历史意义的,指这是一个有重大历史意义的发现。
小题5:affiliated 固定搭配be affiliated with…与…有联系;
小题6:primacy 名词primacy领先性,首位,重要性;这个新的发现证明了它的领先性和重要性。
小题7:convinced 动词convince使…相信,说服…;构成短语be convinced of…相信…。
小题8:improperly 副词improperly不恰当地,做状语修饰整个谓语部分。
小题9:playback 名词playback指倒带,重放。
小题10:interpreted 动词interpret解释,翻译;本句是被动语态,所以使用过去分词的形式。
点评:本题考查考生在上下文语境中运用语法和词汇的能力,特别应注意名词单复数的变化,动词时态语态的变化,形容词和副词的变化,以及虚拟语气等具体语法的使用。