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Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be connected, but people who have researched the subject
Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be connected, but people who have researched the subject
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2013-02-16
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Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be connected, but people who have researched the subject — and studied the brain — say that they are. Research for my book "Late-Talking Children" drove home the point to me. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathematician or scientist — and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical instrument. The children themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects — and to music.
Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same patterns. However, looking at the larger world around us, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly under represented in such fields as mathematics, science and engineering.
If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related, how can there be this great disparity? One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has happened with a number of well-known black musicians.
It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without formal training that blacks have excelled—popular music rather than classical music, piano rather than violin, blues rather then opera. This is readily understandable, given that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the leisure for long years of formal study in music.
Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular music. They have played a disproportionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional and modern. A long string of names comes to mind— Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, W, C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker.. .and on and on.
None of this presupposes any special innate ability of blacks in music. On the contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks’ having no more such inborn ability than anyone else, but being limited to being able to express such ability in narrower channels than others who have had the money, the time and the formal education to spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathematics, science and engineering.
There is no way of knowing whether Duke Ellington would have become a mathematician or scientist under other circum-stances. What is clearer is that most blacks have not had such alternatives available until very recently, as history is measured. Moreover, now that cultural traditions have been established, even those black who have such alternatives available today, and who have the inborn abilities to pursue them, may nevertheless continue for some time to follow well-worn paths.
The author holds that______.
选项
A、blacks demonstrate better inborn musical abilities than others
B、blacks are distinguished in all kinds of music
C、blacks now continue to do music because of their cultural traditions
D、blacks still have no chances to become mathematicians or scientists today
答案
C
解析
本题为细节分析题。根据第六段中的“it is perfectly consistent with blacks’having no more suchinborn ability than anyone else”可知,作者认为黑人并不比其他人更具天分,A选项与原文意思相反。从第四段“It is precisely in those kinds of music…blues rather than opera.”内容可知,黑人比较擅长不需要经过正规训练的音乐,比如流行乐。B选项说黑人擅长所有音乐,与原文意思不符。根据最后一段“What is cleareris that most blacks have not had such alternatives available…to follow well-worn paths.”可知,现在黑人有了很多其他选择,但是文化传统让他们仍然选择了这一条老路。C选项符合原文意思,D选项与原文意思正好相反。因此,C选项正确。
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