Pitch is the ______________ or lowness of the speaker's voice.

A、A. Earnestness

B、B. Disappointment

C、C. Comfort

D、D. Excitement

A、Low speed

B、High speed

C、Any speed

The author uses pitch as an example in order to indicate______.

A．that pitch is not a good example to explain the sex differences in language

B．that males should talk in low pitched voices and females in high pitched voices

C．that sex differences in language can not be well illustrated

D．that sex differences lie in eye or ear of the beholder, rather than in the language

A．simle

B．sit straight

C．use a low voice pitch

D．do not use uh-huh or yeah

A. the extra weight required for the diesel reduction gearing

B. a minimum speed for the engines that limits the minimum speed of the vessel

C. the higher fuel consumption per SHP

D. the low efficiency of the system when a controllable pitch propeller is used

A．the extra weight required for the diesel reduction gearing

B．a minimum speed for the engines that limits the minimum speed of the vessel

C．the higher fuel consumption per SHP

D．the low efficiency of the system when a controllable pitch propeller is used

t the overload should be .

A.cleaning fuel oil, lubricating oil and seawater filter

B.reducing fuel feeding of the main engine appropriately or reducing the pitch angle of propeller

C.using low sea chest

D.closing the skylight and the ventilation opening, which doesn’t affect the normal work of equipments

ew product. So you show the commercials to a (1)_____ of typical consumers and ask their opinion. The answers you get can sometimes lead you into a big (2)_____. Respondents may lie just to be polite.

Now some companies and major advertising (3)_____ have been hiring voice detectives who test your normal voice and then record you on tape (4)_____ commenting on a product. A computer analyzes the degree and direction of change (5)_____ normal. One kind of divergence of pitch means the subject (6)_____ Another kind means he was really enthusiastic. In a testing of two commercials (7)_____ children, they were. vocally, about equally (8)_____ of both. but the computer reported their emotional (9)_____ in the two was totally different.

Most major commercials are sent for testing to theaters (10)_____ with various electronic measuring devices. People regarded as (11)_____ are brought in off the street. Viewers can push buttons to (12)_____ whether they are interested or bored.

Newspaper and magazine groups became intensely interested in testing their ads for a product (13)_____ TV ads for the same product. They were interested because the main (14)_____ of evidence shows that people (15)_____ a lot more mental activity when they read (16)_____ when they sit in front of the TV set. TV began to be (17)_____ "a low-involvement" (18)_____. It is contended that low involvement means that there is less (19)_____ that the ad message will be (20)_____.

Notes: commercial 广告。pitch 音调。

A．pack

B．flock

C．multiple

D．bulk

, not because that is the way the world is, but because that is the way we believe it should be. It takes unwavering belief and considerable effort to keep this division. It also leads us to make some fairly foolish judgments, particularly about language.

Because we think that language also should be divided into masculine and feminine we have become very skilled at ignoring anything that will not fit our preconceptions. We would rather change what we hear than change our ideas about the gender division of the world. We will call assertive girls unfeminine, and supportive boys effeminate, and try to change them while still retaining our stereotypes of masculine and feminine talk.

This is why some research on sex differences and language has been so interesting. It is an illustration of how wrong we can be. Of the many investigators who set out to find the stereotyped sex differences in language, few have had any positive results. It seems that our images of serious taciturn male speakers and gossipy garrulous female speakers are just that: images.

Many myths associated with masculine and feminine talk have had to be discarded as more research has been undertaken. If females do use more trivial words than males, stop talking in mid-sentence, or talk about the same things over and over again, they do not do it when investigators are around.

None of these characteristics-of female speech have been found. And even when sex differences have been found, the question arises as to whether the difference is in the eye or ear of the beholder, rather than in the language.

Pitch provides one example. We believe that males were meant to talk in low-pitched voices and females in high-pitched voices. We also believe that low pitch is more desirable. Well, it bas been found that this difference cannot be explained by anatomy.

If males do not speak in high-pitched voices, it is not usually because they are unable to do so. The reason is more likely to be that there are penalties. Males with high-pitched voices are often the object of ridicule. But pitch is not an absolute, for what is considered the right pitch for males varies from country to country.

The passage implies that the author's attitude towards the division of feminine talk and masculine talk is

A．assertive.

B．snobbish.

C．approving.

D．critical.