首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
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
admin
2018-02-13
26
问题
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. 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, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly underrepresented 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
discrepancy
? 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 than 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 modem. A long string of names comes to mind—Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker... and so on.
None of this indicates 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.
What has made blacks earn more achievement in popular music than in math, science and engineering?
选项
A、Blacks have special innate ability in the music field.
B、Blacks are more interested in music than the other three.
C、Blacks do not have innate ability in the other three.
D、Music doesn’t require formal training while others do.
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据第三段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可知,数学等其他类似学科的发展需要多年的正规学校教育,而音乐不需要接受正规教育。因此,正确答案是D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Y9T7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Baby-NamingTrends[A]Overthelastfiftyyears,Americanparentshaveradicallyincreasedthevarietyofnamestheygiveth
HowtheCIAWorks[A]DespiteplentyofHollywoodfilmsabouttheCIAanditsspies,manypeoplestilldon’tknowwhattheag
HowtheCIAWorks[A]DespiteplentyofHollywoodfilmsabouttheCIAanditsspies,manypeoplestilldon’tknowwhattheag
Aristotledefinedafriendas"asinglesouldwellingintwobodies".MembersofFacebookwhose"friends"reachtriplefiguresm
Somesayitisevidentthatcomputerscandamageaperson’seyesight.Sincethepopularityofcomputersbegantoskyrocket,ther
SpaceTourism[A]Makeyourreservationsnow.Thespacetourismindustryisofficiallyopenforbusiness,andticketsaregoi
A、AnAmerican.B、TheFrenchmen.C、AnEnglishman.D、AChineseman.C细节题。由原文可知,第一部电影是在19世纪90年代由一个在美国工作的英国人W.K.L.Dickson制作的。所以正确
A、Themoneyandresourcesshouldbeadequatelyallocated.B、Moremoneyandresourcesshouldbespent.C、Additionalfundingshoul
A、Itiseasiertouse.B、Itcanlastlonger.C、Itbecomescolorful.D、Itbecomesdelicate.B文章末尾提到制造商需要更浓的油使口红使用的时间更持久,B正确。表示目的的
A、Achildmaystartmisbehavingforthemoment.B、Thecorporalpunishmentteachesparentstobeviolent.C、Manychildrendon’tr
随机试题
CWDM和DWDM主要区别在于复用和解复用时()间隔不同。
人际沟通:
以下称为送达的是
X线管组件散热方式中,不包括
患者,男性,62岁。因房颤住院治疗,心率114次/分,心率脉率不一致。此时护士测量脉搏与心率的方法是
下列不属于人员任用的程序的是()。
根据《标准施工招标文件》规定,关于工程变更价款调整的说法,正确的是()。
甲公司2×16年至2×18年发生下列与租赁有关的业务:(1)甲公司2×16年1月1日以融资租赁方式租入一台设备,租金总额为150万元,合同约定租赁期开始日预付60万元,以后每年年末支付30万元,分三年于2×18年12月31日全部付清租金,假设银行同期贷款
体育课组织进行基本部分的教学时应注意什么?
Ifyouhaveeverwonderedhowanelephantsmells,scientistshavetheanswer.ResearchershavediscoveredthatAfricanElephants
最新回复
(
0
)