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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.
【C4】
选项 A、proposed
B、subjected
C、propelled
D、submitted
答案A
解析 上下文语义题。此处填入谓语动词，与主语governor“州长”和宾语giving every newborn…构成主谓宾搭配。该段首句就指出听音乐对孩子有好处，学校应该增加音乐课；接着又提到听莫扎特的《D大调双钢琴奏鸣曲》可以促进大脑机能，一些父母被印有“莫扎特效应”商标的产品所吸引。这些均是肯定了音乐的作用，根据此语境，结合宾语“给该州每一个新生儿发一张古典音乐CD或者一盒古典音乐磁带”，可推断政府的态度应是支持此举措的，A项propose“提议，建议”能体现州长支持的态度，符合语境。B项subjected“使遭受；使隶属”，常用于subject sb. /sth. to…的结构，意为“使某人/某物遭受/隶属……”，该词填入句中无法与主语governor“州长”和宾语giving every newborn…构成通顺的语义。C项propelled “推动，驱使”侧重于指成为某事物或某动作发生的动力，州长不可能是“给每一个新生儿发古典音乐CD或磁带”的动力。D项submitted作“服从”讲时，通常要与to搭配，即submit to sb. /sth. ；作“递交”讲时，其宾语通常是方案、文件、计划等。
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