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What do the qualities of voice relate to？
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听力原文：W: What a great day! Hey, Tom, do you want to go to the beach this weekend？
M: Yeah, that is a great idea. Maybe Sara would like to come along with us.
W: I doubt it.
M: Why？ You are kidding! You know, she loves watching the sea.
W: But yesterday afternoon she told me that she would go home this Saturday.
M: What happened？
W: She said that her mother was ill and stayed in the hospital, and therefore she wanted to go home to see her.
M: I am sorry to hear that. Well, What do you think？ Should we take some food？
W: That sounds great. Maybe we could have a picnic on the beach. Then let's take some sandwiches, chips, and uh…some salad as well.
M: We should also take some drinks like Coke and beer.
W: Good. In addition, we had better pack beach towels and sun cream.
M: OK. Please don't forget to give me a call and let's go down together.
What will the two speakers do this weekend？
Which of the following is the most important factor in a successful marriage？
听力原文： Often during my young life, I had ridden my horse down hills, chasing cows, and I had never been afraid. Suddenly, I experienced a moment that terrified me. I was on a narrow edge of rock on one of the highest points of the ranch, and I could see the treetops on the plateau below, like tiny shrubs, racing beneath the hoofs of my horse. The cow was getting away 'from me! I urged my horse to go faster and then, to gain distance, I made him jump to a steep slope below. He skidded in the winter mud to the edge of the slope and hung for an instant, balanced dangerously, half falling into the deep valley hundreds of feet below. Miraculously, he got his footing again. Shaking with fright, I got off him and sat down in the wet grass, trembling with the thought of what had almost happened. Then, slowly and carefully, I led my horse back down the steep hill, wondering how we had ever got up so high in the first place. "Somebody else is going to have to get that cow," I said to my father, "I'm not going up there again."
Why did the speaker suddenly feel frightened？
听力原文： The human brain processes male and female voices differently, according to a recent study, which explains why most of us hear female voices more clearly. The study also explains how we form. mental images of people based only on the sound of their voices. The findings, published in the journal NeuroImage, might also give insight into why many men tire of hearing women speak. It seems the complexity of female voices requires a lot of brain activity.
"It is females' increased use of prosody, or the natural melody of speech, that makes their voices more complex," says author Professor Michael Hunter. Hunter, professor of medicine and biomedical sciences at the University of Sheffield's Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory, says these qualities are not related to pitch, but rather to the vibration and number of sound waves.
For the study Hunter and his colleagues played recordings of male and female voices to 12 men while they underwent MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, brain scans. Test subjects assigned a gender to the voices they heard while the scans took place, and were 98 to 99 percent accurate. Researchers monitored the areas of the brain that showed activity during the scans.
The scientists found that female voices activate the brain's auditory section. But male voices activated the area at the back of the brain called the mind's eye, where people compare other individuals and things to themselves. While the researchers only analyzed how a male brain works, they theorized that female voices are always processed in the brain's auditory region, even when women are listening to other women.
But Hunter thinks female voices may also activate the mind's eye in females, since a woman would compare her voice to that of the other female speaker. Since humans process female voices in an area of the brain that's geared for sound, we tend to hear female voices more clearly. While Hunter believes female voices are complex, he says that once they are interpreted in the auditory part of the brain, they are more fully and readily decoded.
Why do most of us hear women voices more clearly？
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