填空题 Today I"m going to look at the sense of hearing. In general, we tend to assume that we all hear the same thing. But, in fact, this seems to be a 1 because men and women are increasingly claiming that there are 2 in what they hear. So are they right? Do men and women have different 3 experience?
The most fascinating thing about the 4 of the ear is that a part that measures three millimeters in a child often will also measure three millimeters in a very tall 5 . But can men and women"s hearing vary despite this 6 ? An Australian 7 Alan Treece is adamant that they can. He believes that men are better at discerning the 8 of a sound than women. Treece is also convinced that women are 9 programmed to hear crying babies. He puts it down to the fact that women hear better than men in terms of distinguishing 10 sounds. He links this to the fact that women as the child bearers need the ability to hear if there is any 11 coming from the child. But it does seem that when the role of carer is 12 , men are mysteriously equally good at hearing their 13 .
So what"s the scientific truth behind such ideas? An ongoing study shows that women"s hearing is slightly better than men"s. And this difference is observable from the moment of 14 .
One mysterious difference between the sexes was 15 recently when a number of women in 16 started hearing strange sounds, which their husbands simply couldn"t.
The local council has 17 to work out what the sounds can be. What is really intriguing is that all the 18 sent in to the Council offices so far have been from 19 . No man seems to be able to hear it. This might give us a 20 insight into the mysterious world of sound.