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1、2022-2023年山东省潍坊市大学英语6级大学英语六级重点汇总（含答案）学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1. According to Dr. Joseph, journaling helps unemployed people _.A.have an objective comment on themselvesB.heal from the hurt feelings caused by the layoffC.have an insight on the situation
2、 of the job marketD.become ignorant of others opinions on them2.Creative justice is welcomed by the public.A.Y B.N C.NG3.In order to gather much more data, Wal-Mart preferred _ to bar codes.4. In the happiness pie chart, error factors account for 10 percent.5.What is openly approved by almost all pe
3、ople is _.6.Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect?If you havent been listening to pop radio in the past few months, youve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot of pop vocals suddenly sound great. Better than great: note- a
4、nd pitch-perfect, as if theres been an unspoken tightening of standards at record labels or an evolutionary leap in the development of vocal cords. At the other extreme are a few hip-hop singers who also hit their notes but with a precision so exaggerated that on first listen, their songs sound comi
5、cally artificial, like a chorus of 50s robots singing Motown.The force behind both trends is an ingenious plug-in called Auto-Tune, a downloadable studio trick that can take a vocal and instantly nudge it onto the proper note or move it to the correct pitch. Its like Photoshop for the human voice. A
6、uto-Tune doesnt make it possible for just anyone to sing like a pro, but used as its creator intended, it can transform. a wavering performance into something technically flawless. Right now, if you listen to pop, everything is in perfect pitch, perfect time and perfect tune, says producer Rick Rubi
7、n. Thats how ubiquitous Auto-Tune is.Auto-Tunes inventor is a man named Andy Hildebrand, who worked for years interpreting seismic data for the oil industry. Using a mathematical formula called autocorrelation, Hildebrand would send sound waves into the ground and record their reflections, providing
8、 an accurate map of potential drill sites. Its a technique that saves oil companies lots of money and allowed Hildebrand to retire at 40. He was debating the next chapter of his life at a dinner party when a guest challenged him to invent a box that would allow her to sing in tune. After he tinkered
9、 with autocorrelation for a few months, Auto-Tune was born in late 1996.Almost immediately, studio engineers adopted it as a trade secret to fix flubbed notes, saving them the expense and hassle of having to redo sessions. The first time common ears heard Auto-Tune was on the immensely irritating 19
10、98 Cher hit Believe. In the first verse, when Cher sings I cant break through as though shes standing behind an electric fan, thats Auto-Tune-but its not the way Hildebrand meant it to be used. The programs retune speed, which adjusts the singers voice, can be set from zero to 400. If you set it to
11、10, that means that the output pitch will get halfway to the target pitch in 10 milliseconds, says Hildebrand. But if you let that parameter go to zero, it finds the nearest note and changes the output pitch instantaneously-eliminating the natural transition between notes and making the singer sound
12、 jumpy and automat-ed. I never figured anyone in their right mind would want to do that, he says.Like other trends spawned by Cher, the creative abuse of Auto-Tune quickly went out of fashion, although it continued to be an indispensable, if inaudible, part of the engineers toolbox. But in 2003, T-P
13、ain (Faheem Najm), a little-known rapper and singer, accidentally stumbled onto the Cher effect while Auto-Tuning some of his vocals. It just worked for my voice, says T-Pain in his natural Tallahassee drawl. And there wasnt anyone else doing it.Since his 2005 debut album, T-Pain has sent a dozen sl
14、ightly raunchy, mechanically cheery singles into the Top 10. He contributed to four nominated songs at Grammy Award 2009, and his influence is still spreading. When Kanye West was looking for an effect to match some heartbroken lyrics, he flew T-Pain to Hawaii to see how many ways they could tweak A
15、uto-Tune. Diddy gave a percentage of his upcoming albums profits to T-Pain in exchange for some lessons. Even Prince is rumored to be experimenting with Auto-Tune on his new record. I know Auto-Tunebetter than anyone, says T-Pain. And even Im just figuringA.Vocal cords. B.Hip-hop singers. C.Motown.
16、D.Auto-Tune.7. What does the author say about some experts?A.They are authorities only in their own fields.B.They arent easily fooled by the tricky tests.C.The mistakes theyve made are inevitable.D.They sometimes fail to do well as claimed.8.The largest number of rainforests in the world are located on the
