托福考试

【单选题】Questions 34-43
A、number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker.The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting informationby use of language, communicating with a group or an individual, and specializedline communication through performance.
A、person conveys thoughts and ideas throughchoice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, bythe rhythm that is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms that areflowing and regular or uneven and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of theutterance. When speaking before a group, a person’s tone may indicate unsureness orfright, confidence or calm.At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may belie them. Here the conversant’stone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, lack ofconcern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are .usuallydiscernible by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communicationthat is highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /orgesture. The motivation derived from the text, and in the case of singing, the music, incombination with the performer’s skills, personality, and ability to create empathy willdetermine the success of artistic, political, or pedagogic communication.Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person’s self-image, perception ofothers, and emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious, shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a fewpersonality traits.Also the sound may give a clue to the facade or mask of that person,for example, a shy person hiding behind an overconfident front. How a speakerperceives the listener’s receptiveness, interest, or sympathy in any given conversationcan drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or discouraging thespeaker.Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds of thehappy, by constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualitiesof the depressedThe word "evidenced" in line 25 is closest inmeaning to
A、questioned
B．repeated
C．indicated
D．exaggerated

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