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1、Test 17E 阅读理解Canned laughter is the recording of laughter that you hear in the background ofsome older sitcom shows.The people you hear arent actually a live audience(观众)laughing at the joke.These sounds were recorded at an earlier time.Charles Douglas,a TV sound engineer,came up with the idea in th

2、e 1950s.He became upset with liveTV audiences because he felt they laughed at the wrong times.So,he experimentedwith adding canned laughter.Douglas got good results,and soon after,cannedlaughter became a standard in the TV industry.It remained popular until the 1980s,when viewers attitudes changed.T

3、he next generation found canned laughterannoying.So,canned laughter started to disappear.预录笑声是你在一些老式情景喜剧节目的背景中听到的笑声录音。你听到的人实际上并不是为了笑话而哈哈大笑的现场观众。这些声音是在较早的时候录制的。电视音效工程师 Charles Douglas 在 20 世纪 50 年代想到了这个主意。他对现场的电视观众有些不满，因为他觉得他们在错误的时间笑了起来。因此，他尝试添加预录笑声。Douglas 收获了很好的结果，不久之后，预录笑声成为电视行业的一项标准。它一直很流行，直到 20 世纪 80 年代，观众的态度发生了变化。下一代发现预录笑声很恼人。所以，预录笑声开始消失。