题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
辽宁省葫芦岛协作校2017-2018学年高二上学期英语第二次阶段考试试卷
We are naturally drawn to friends and colleagues with familiar voices, scientists have found. People prefer those who have a similar accent, intonation and tone of voice to themselves, they discovered.
Previous research has focused on how male or female a voice sounds. Men with deeper voices and women with slightly higher voices were thought to sound more attractive, because they suggest a bigger or a smaller body.
But the new study, published by a linguistics expert in Canada, suggests there is a more complex mechanism (机制) at play. Dr Molly Babel, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, said, “The voice is an amazingly flexible tool that we use to construct our identity. Very few things in our voices are changeless, so we felt that our preferences had to be about more than a person's shape and size.”
She recorded 30 volunteers' voices and asked each to rate the others' attractiveness on a range from one to nine. Each participant was from western America, with similar accents. The people we assessed were all in the same dialect group, but they showed that dialect to different degrees.
“We seem to like people who sound like we sound, and we like people who fit within what we know,” Dr Babel said. She also found that breathy voices in women—typified by the famous American actress Marilyn Monroe-were seen as more attractive.
The breathy tone, caused by younger and thinner vocal cords (声带), implied youthfulness and health. A creaky (咯吱作响的) voice, suggesting a person has a cold, is tired or smokes, was seen as unattractive. The participants preferred men who spoke with a shorter average word length and deeper voices.
The weather symbol shown for each day in the five day forecast represents the main weather expected on the day in question. The maximum temperature is the highest temperature forecast between dawn and dusk, whereas the minimum temperature is the lowest temperature expected from dusk on the day to dawn the following day. The wind speed and direction are the expected conditions at midday.
London, United Kingdom 28,11, 2018 (Wed.) |
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Day |
Summary |
Max day; Min night (℃) |
Wind (mph) |
Visibility |
Pressure |
Pollution |
Mon. Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 15:59 |
| 9-10 | very poor | 1030 | low | |
Tue. Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:00 | | 3-8 | good | 1023 | low | |
Wed. Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:01 | | -1-5 | | good | 1023 | low |
Thur. Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:02 | | 0-2 | good | 999 | low | |
Fri. Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:03 | | 0-2 | | good | 1012 | low |
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