76. The reason why pitch is registered on the right hemisphere, according to the passage, is that it ____.

  1. belongs to the English language exclusively
  2. is an emotive nuance of language
  3. can be easily heard
  4. is a regular sound

77. When the emotion-free words were heard in the test, they ____.

  1. were registered on the English speakers' right hemispheres
  2. slowed down the blood flow in the volunteers' brains
  3. activated the Thai speakers' left hemispheres
  4. sounded the exactly the same to the volunteers

78. A tonal language ____.

  1. possesses no pitch
  2. carries pitch with dual functions
  3. is superior to the English language
  4. holds more linguistic content than English

79. In Wong's future experiment, the volunteers ____.

  1. will use either their right or left hemispheres
  2. will use both English and a tonal language
  3. will listen to emotionally-charged sentences
  4. will listen to more pairs of emotionally-charged words

80. What is the passage mainly about?

  1. Two hemispheres to the sound of speech.
  2. Two functions of pitch in language.
  3. Two hemispheres of the human brain.
  4. Two languages and two hemispheres.

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