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阅读理解     A linguist is always listening, never off-duty. I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit anxious, for there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. They sat down, rather nervously, and I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from 1 to 20. Then we could relax and have a drink. I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn counted seriously from 1 to 20 in their best accents. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks. The rest of the evening was spent in total relaxation. I joined them in talking and joking freely, leaving them only to take a telephone call, which lasted some time.     As a matter of fact, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one in the kitchen. My friends, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphone which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my long absence meant that I was able to get as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the recording was over, and asked them whether it should be destroyed. None of them wanted to—but for some years after that, it always seemed that when it came to buying drinks, it was I who paid for them. Linguistic research can be a very expensive business. （1） The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because _________. A . he wanted to record the numbers for his research B . he wanted his friends to think that was all he wanted to record C . he wanted to make his friends relax before real recording started D . he wanted to find out whether the tape recorder was working （2） How did his friends react when the writer told them what he had done? A . They wanted him to destroy the recordings he had made B . They made him buy them more drinks C . They were angry with him D . They didn't seem to mind much （3） The writer went into another room to _________. A . stay away from too much drinking with his friends B . bring a telephone into the front room C . get a natural recording of his friends' conversation D . answer a long distance phone call （4） The writer successfully recorded his friends' conversation on the recorder _______. A . in the front room B . in the kitchen C . in the middle of the room D . in the room where he was answering the call （5） Which of the following words can best describe the recording which the writer managed to make? A . natural B . prepared C . controlled D . unclear 答案： B D C B A

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