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 before trademarked "Mozart effect" products began to appeal to anxious parents aiming to put toddlers (刚学步的孩子) on the fast track to prestigious universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgia’s governor even【C2】________giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette.
    The evidence for Mozart therapy turned out to be weak, perhaps nonexistent, although the【C3】________ study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, however, scientists have examined the benefits of a concerted effort to study and practice music, as【C4】________to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based "brain fitness" game once in a while.
    Advanced monitoring【C5】________have enabled scientists to see what happens inside your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music lessons can produce profound and lasting changes that【C6】________the general ability to learn. These results should【C7】________public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ripe for discarding in the budget crises that【C8】________trouble public schools.
    Studies have shown that【C9】________instrument training from an early age can help the brain to【C10】________sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to mathematics. The musically adept (擅长的) can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking.
    A) mechanisms E) convince   I) original M) submitted
    B) constantly F) notion     J) urgently N) opposed
    C) proposed   G) accustomed K) diligent O) casual
    D) process    H) enhance    L) techniques
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解析 as表明此处需填入形容语或分词,与to构成搭配。as opposed to是固定搭配,表示“与……对照之下,而非”,用在这里表示“而不是偶尔播放一张莫扎特CD或玩玩电脑上的‘益智’游戏”。
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