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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.
【C17】
选项 A、urgent
B、casual
C、solemn
D、diligent
答案D
解析 上下文语义题。此处是讲乐器训练的好处，空格处填入形容词修饰instrument training。上一段也提及了科学家发现音乐的好处，且段首提及了“每天下午练习一小时小提琴”，这种练习是需要努力坚持的。根据上文这一语境，结合此处空格后面的from an early age“从小”和Call help…(表明这种训练起到的积极作用)，推断这里应该是指下功夫努力地training，所填之词需含有“努力”之意，D项diligent“勤奋的”符合句意。A项urgent“紧急的，急迫的”强调时间的紧迫性。和时间短语from an early age相矛盾。B项casual “漫不经心的；随便的”表示专注度不高，这样的训练无法起到好的效果，无法跟下文的can help…吻合。C项solemn“庄严的；神圣的”不宜用来修饰training。
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