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Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add music classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago, a

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问题     Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add music classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago, a small study advanced the【C1】______that listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major could boost mental functioning. It was not long【C2】______trademarked "Mozart effect" products began to appeal to anxious parents aiming to put little kids【C3】______the fast track to prestigious universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgia’s governor even【C4】______giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette.
    The evidence for Mozart therapy【C5】______to be weak, perhaps nonexistent, although the【C6】______study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years,【C7】______, scientists have examined the benefits of a concerted【C8】______to study and practice music, as【C9】______to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based "brain fitness" game【C10】______in a while.
    Advanced monitoring【C11】______have enabled scientists to see what happens【C12】______your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music【C13】______can produce profound and lasting changes that【C14】______the general ability to learn. These results should【C15】______public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ripe for discarding in the budget crises that constantly【C16】______public schools.
    Studies have shown that【C17】______instrument training from an early age can help the brain to【C18】______sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to mathematics. Those who are good at music are better able to【C19】______a biology lesson despite the noise in the classroom【C20】______, a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next office starts screaming at a subordinate. They can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking.
【C5】
选项 A、turned up
B、turned out
C、turned in
D、turned down
答案B
解析 语义逻辑题。空格处应填入谓语动词，说明主语the evidence和to be weak之间的关系。该句子中，although引导的让步状语从句指出“尽管研究只是说莫扎特音乐疗法的效果是短暂而有限的”，这是研究对音乐的作用所作的一种结论。although所体现的转折让步关系说明主句中的evidence是要表明Mozart therapy的实际作用。B项turn out“结果是”，以引出某种结果。
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