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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.
【C16】
选项 A、trouble
B、distract
C、disclose
D、transform
答案A
解析 上下文语义题。空格位于that引导的定语从句中，应填入动词充当从句谓语，说明先行词the budget crises “预算危机”如何作用于public schools。危机通常会带来不好的影响，且 “不断地”一词体现了动作发生的持续性。四个选项中A项trouble “烦扰”最符合要求，填入文中表示“不断困扰公立学校的预算危机”。B项distract “使分心”一般是指无法专心做某事，填入文中表示“不断使公立学校分心的预算危机”。C项disclose“揭露”的施动者通常是人，不宜说the budget crises。D项transform “改变”指形式、外表或本质的彻底改变，与先行词the budget crises和宾语public schools无法构成通顺完整的意思。
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