Reading 4 (The Gift of Hearing)

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Your ears can recognize how many different sounds?

• 1,000

• 5,000

• 50,000

• 300,000

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Helen Keller believed hearing is man's most important sense because____.

• it helps us communicate with other people

• we can hear the telephone ring

• we can hear music

• people can't talk about us when we are present

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Our ears are made up of how many parts?

• one

• three

• seven

• one hundred

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What is the important job of the outer ear?

• gives balance to the face

• protects the inner ear from dirt

• guides sound waves into the ear

• keeps glasses from falling off

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Sound waves make the eardrum _____.

• hurt

• vibrate

• beat

• sizzle

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What carries the sound waves across the middle ear to the inner ear?

• three small bones

• a tube

• water

• heat

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The organ of hearing in the inner ear looks like ____.

• a cube

• a spider

• a patch

• a snail

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The sounds are picked up in the inner ear by _____.

• brain waves

• tiny hairs

• fluid

• nerves

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Sounds are then transmitted by the auditory nerve to the ________.

• kidneys

• brain

• mouth

• eyes

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Jesus said that if we have ears we should hear. He meant that we should ____.

• hear and obey God's Word

• have a doctor check our ears regularly

• keep our ears clean

• wear a hearing aid if necessary