Question

For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil (錫紙), 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 ___小題1:___earlier than Edison's invention of the phonograph.
The 10-second recording of a singer crooning (輕聲歌唱)  the folk song  "Au Clair de la Lune"  was discovered earlier this month in an   ___小題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 ___小題3:___, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable---converted from squiggles (潦草的字跡) on paper to sound---by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"This is a  ___小題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 ___小題5:___with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. The audio discovery could give new   ___小題6:___ to the phonautograph, and its inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville,  a Parisian typesetter who went to his grave   ___小題7:___that credit for his breakthroughs had been ___小題8:___bestowed on Edison.
The recordings made by Scott were not intended for listening; the idea of audio  ___小題9:__ had not been conceived.  Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be___小題10:___.

Answer 1

小題1:decades 
小題2:archive  
小題3:visually
小題4:historic 
小題5:affiliated  
小題6:primacy  
小題7:convinced 
小題8:improperly   
小題9:playback   
小題10:interpreted

試題分析：
小題1:decades 這個發(fā)明比愛迪生的發(fā)明幾乎要早20年。名詞decade十年。
小題2:archive 名詞檔案館archive;指這個記錄這個月早些時候被巴黎的一個檔案館里被發(fā)現。
小題3:visually 副詞visually形象化地；指這個記錄聽起來很形象很生動。
小題4:historic 形容詞historic指有重大歷史意義的，指這是一個有重大歷史意義的發(fā)現。
小題5:affiliated  固定搭配be affiliated with…與…有聯系；
小題6:primacy  名詞primacy領先性，首位，重要性；這個新的發(fā)現證明了它的領先性和重要性。
小題7:convinced 動詞convince使…相信，說服…；構成短語be convinced of…相信…。
小題8:improperly   副詞improperly不恰當地，做狀語修飾整個謂語部分。
小題9:playback   名詞playback指倒帶，重放。
小題10:interpreted 動詞interpret解釋，翻譯；本句是被動語態(tài)，所以使用過去分詞的形式。
點評：本題考查考生在上下文語境中運用語法和詞匯的能力，特別應注意名詞單復數的變化，動詞時態(tài)語態(tài)的變化，形容詞和副詞的變化，以及虛擬語氣等具體語法的使用。