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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.
【C8】
选项 A、object
B、attention
C、impulse
D、effort
答案D
解析 上下文语义题。此处是讲科学家检验音乐的好处(the benefits)。空格后的不定式短语to study and practice music“学习和练习音乐”和to playing a Mozart CD or…in a while“偶尔播放一张莫扎特CD或……”是两种不同的情形，从study and practice与play、in a while可看出，前者作出的努力要比后者大。根据这一语境，D项effort“努力”填入文中最贴切。表示“一致努力学习和练习音乐的好处”。A项object“目标”填入文中表示“科学家检验过以学习和练习音乐为共同目标的好处”，其中“共同目标”这一说法缺乏上下文语境。空格前的concerted“一致的”通常侧重于指一群人共同努力做某事，故不适宜用来修饰B项attention“注意力”。D项impulse“冲动”填入文中构成impulse to do sth. ，表示“做某事的冲动”。
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