科目：高中英语 来源：2012－2013学年山东省高一下学期第三次模拟考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil (锡纸), 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 ___1.___earlier than Edison's invention of the phonograph.
The 10-second recording of a singer crooning (轻声歌唱) the folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" was discovered earlier this month in an ___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 ___3.___, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable---converted from squiggles (潦草的字迹) on paper to sound---by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"This is a ___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 ___5.___with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. The audio discovery could give new ___6.___ to the phonautograph, and its inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter who went to his grave ___7.___that credit for his breakthroughs had been ___8.___bestowed on Edison.
The recordings made by Scott were not intended for listening; the idea of audio ___9.__ had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be___10.___.
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