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    Three men have had a big influence on modern sound and communication technologies. We started with the beginnings of computer-generated music.

Max Vernon Mathews

    Max Vernon Mathews has been called the father of computer music. He created electronic tools so that people could use computers, as musical instruments. He had a huge influence on the development of electronic music and how it is written, recorded and played. In 1957, Max wrote the first: computer program, Music, to enable a computer to create sound and play it back. The computer was so slow that it would have taken an hour to play the piece of music in seventeen seconds. For that reason, Mathews moved the work to a tape player, which could be sped up to play the music at a normal speed.

    Mathews continued creating other versions of the Music program. He became interested in how computers could help musicians outside recording studios. The Groove program he developed was the first computer program made for live performances.

Norio Ohga

    Sony Corporation official Norio Ohga helped to develop, the compact disc in the late 1970s.

    He pushed for CDs to be larger, and with a longer playing time. He wanted them to hold seventy-five minutes so that they could store all of Bcethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc. This way, listeners could enjoy the musical work without any break. The compact disc changed the electronics industry and the way people listened to music.

Hubert Joseph Schlafly

    Hubert Joseph Schlafly was an electrical engineer who helped change the way actors, politicians and other people speak on television. In 1950, he and two other men developed the teleprompter. One co-worker, Fred Barton, was an actor. He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them. The first teleprompter involved a person who turned a long piece of paper printed with tall letters. As the actor read the lines, another person would, move the paper ahead on the device. Later versions used television screens to show the words that were to be read.

1. （1） Why did Mathews give up using computers to create sound and play it back?

   A . Because he wanted to use computers as musical instruments. B . Because he couldn't create sound on computers. C . Because he wanted to enjoy musical work without any break. D . Because he wanted to find better ways to create sound with modern technologies.
3. （2） What's the meaning of the underlined word "teleprompter"?

   A . 投影仪 B . 电子提词机 C . 屏蔽仪 D . 显示屏
5. （3） From the writing, we can learn that________.

   A . Mathews' first computer program could play the music at a normal speed B . the Groove program was the first computer program made for live performances by Hubert Joseph Schlafly. C . owing to Norio Ohga, people can enjoy all of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc. D . only Hubert Joscph Schlafly and Fred Barton worked together to develop the prompter.