【正文】 the key to this mystery is a sound known as the subglottal resonance（聲門(mén)下共振）. It deepens with height and helps us build a mental picture of a person. “The best way to think about subglottal resonances is to imagine blowing into a glass bottle with water. The less water in the bottle, the lower sound,” said John Morton, a scientist at Washington University. And it’s the same for humans. The frequency of the subglottal resonance depends on the height. The taller we are, the deeper the resonance frequency is. In order to find out whether people could identify the resonance, scientists did experiments. A number of samesex pairs of different heights were told to read the same sentence aloud. It was played back to listeners who had to choose which one of the pairs was taller. Then, other listeners had to rank the speakers from the shortest to the tallest. The listeners were able to identify the tall people % of time, much higher than a lucky guess. Why not try the experiment yourself? Find out if your tall friends have deeper voices. 1. The scientists in some American universities found that people’s voices ________. A. change more quickly as they get older B. can tell the height of the speakerC. sound different when they have water in their mouth D. can tell the speaker’s gender, age and weight2. The underlined word deepens might mean ________ in Chinese. B. 變得高亢 D. 變得甜美3. According to the study, taller people usually have a ________ voice. A. deeper B. louder C. lower D. higher4. Which of the following is TRUE? A. Our voice is made up of the subglottal resonance. B. The people tested in the experiments were of differentsex pairs. C. A person’s voice is greatly different even when reading the same sentence. D. Listeners’ ability to identify taller speaker is much higher than a lucky guess. 5. The best title of the passage might be ________. A. How to Be Taller B. Our Voice Tells Our Height C. An Experience about Voice D. Something about Subglottal Resonance 參考答案1—BCADB二、短文改錯(cuò)。中考英語(yǔ)人教九全U11—12重點(diǎn)短語(yǔ)句型和練習(xí)及答案中考英語(yǔ)人教九全U11—12重點(diǎn)短語(yǔ)句型和練習(xí)及答案第一部分：一、閱讀理解。閱讀下列短 文，從每小題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。下面短文中分別有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤。寫(xiě)在橫線上。 Then the old woman became very angrily because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat in the head. The cat said, Do not hit your old servant. I had worked for you for many years, and I would even work for you , but I am too old. Do not unkind to the old, but remember how good work the old did when they were young. Nobody stay young forever.1_________ 2_________ 3___________ 4___________ 5 ___________ 6_________ 7_________ 8___________ 9___________ 10 ___________參考答案very—too 去掉 it sobecause angrilyangry inon hadhave evenstill be unkind howwhat staystays三、重點(diǎn)短語(yǔ)回顧1. ________________寧愿 2. ________________使某人發(fā)瘋/發(fā)狂3. ________________成為某人的朋友 4. ________________忽略；不提及；不包括5. ________________首相；大臣 6. ________________召來(lái)；叫來(lái)7. ________________起初；開(kāi)始時(shí) 8. ________________使失望9. ________________開(kāi)除某人 10. ________________對(duì)某人苛刻；對(duì)某人要求嚴(yán)厲11. ________________而不是 12. ________________齊心協(xié)力；通力合作13. ________________在……以前 14. ________________捎……一程15. ________________(與……)成一排 16. ________________趕到；露面17. ________________在(某時(shí)間點(diǎn))以前 18. ________________化妝舞會(huì)19. ________________賣(mài)光參考答案：1. would rather　2. drive sb. crazy/mad　3. be friends with sb.4. leave out　5. prime minister　6. call in　7. to start with8. let...down　9. kick sb. off　10. be hard on sb.　11. rather than12. pull together　13. by the time　14. give...a lift15. in line with　16. show up　 the end of18. costume party　19. sell out　第二部分：一、完形填空I still remember that day. I was waiting to get some 1 for shopping in a bank.Among the crowd, I noticed a little boy carrying some sunglasses in one hand and a big bag in 2 .The boy was about 10 years old. He was walking around the people inside the 3 and asked them to buy his sunglasses. But 4 would buy any from him. He tried from one person to another. From the look on his face, I know he would not 5 anyway.Now, I decided to have a 6 with him. I went up and asked, Do you go to school? He nodded his head. Then I continued, Why do you 7 sunglasses? He said nothing. I gave him＄20 and said that I was not in 8 of the sunglasses but he could keep the money. To my 9 , his face changed a lot, which is still in my memory today. I didn39。t need your pity. I felt very 12 for what I did, and I told him that I w