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
William Shakespeare described old age as "second childishness"—no teeth, no eyes, no taste. In the case of taste he may, musical
William Shakespeare described old age as "second childishness"—no teeth, no eyes, no taste. In the case of taste he may, musical
admin
2022-05-19
40
问题
William Shakespeare described old age as "second childishness"—no teeth, no eyes, no taste. In the case of taste he may, musically speaking, have been more perceptive than he realised. A paper in Neurology by Giovanni Frisoni and his colleagues at the National Centre for Besearch and Care of Alzheimer’s Disease in Italy, shows that frontotemporal dementia can affect musical desires in ways that suggest a
regression,
if not to infancy, then at least to a patient’s teens.
Frontotemporal dementia, a disease usually found with old people, is caused, as its name suggests, by damage to the front and sides of the brain. These regions are concerned with speech, and with such "higher"functions as abstract thinking and judgment.
Two of such patients intrigued Dr Frisoni. One was a 68-year-old lawyer, the other a 73-year-old housewife. Both had undamaged memories, but displayed the sorts of defect associated with frontotemporal dementia—a diagnosis that was confirmed by brain scanning.
About two years after he was first diagnosed, the lawyer, once a classical music lover who referred to pop music as "mere noise", started listening to the Italian pop band "883". As his command of language and his emotional attachments to friends and family deteriorated, he continued to listen to the band at full volume for many hours a day. The housewife had not even had the lawyer’s love of classical music, having never enjoyed music of any sort in the past. But about a year after her diagnosis she became very interested in the songs that her 11-year-old granddaughter was listening to.
This kind of change in musical taste was not seen in any of the Alzheimer’s patients, and thus appears to be specific to those with frontotemporal dementia. And other studies have remarked on how frontotemporal-dementia patients sometimes gain new talents. Five sufferers who developed artistic abilities are known. And in another case, one woman with the disease suddenly started composing and singing country and western songs.
Dr Frisoni speculates that the illness is causing people to develop a new attitude towards new experiences. Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain’s right frontal lobe. A predominance of the right over the left frontal lobe, caused by damage to the latter, might thus lead to a quest for new experience. Alternatively, the damage may have affected some specific nervous system that is needed to appreciate certain kinds of music. Whether that is a gain or a loss is a different matter. As Dr Frisoni puts it in his article, there is no accounting for taste.
The writer quotes Shakespeare mainly to_________.
选项
A、praise the keen perception of the great English writer
B、support Dr Frisoni’s theory about a disease
C、start the discussion on a brain disease
D、show the long history of the disease
答案
C
解析
第一段中第一句话威廉莎士比亚把老年阶段比做“第二次孩子气”——没有牙齿,视力差。失去味觉。接着整篇文章谈论了一种跟音乐品味有关的大脑疾病——额颞痴呆症。因此可知,作者引用威廉莎士比亚的一句话只是为了引出后文,即start discussion on a brain disease.故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gDCd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Oneimportantaspectofretirementformostpeopleisdecidingwheretolive.Inthepast,thiswasnotanissuebecausemostel
WhatdoesthepassagetellusaboutAmericanrivers?
Thefossilremainsofthefirstflyingvertebrates,thepterosaurs.haveintriguedpaleontologistsformorethantwocenturies,
Sailorsandfishermeninparticular,havealwaysbeenextremelysuperstitious.Thisishardlysurprisingwhenoneconsidersthe
Weoftenhearadvicefromthedermatologists,"Youshouldkeepusingsunscreencream—justtobesafe".Moreandmorepeopleare
In1942,theHMSEdinburghwassunkintheBarentsSea.Itwasonits【21】______backtoBritainwithninety-oneboxesofRussian
Thereareadvantagesin1997,ifyouwanttolookforthem.Theairiscleaner,andthereseemtobefewercolds.Thecrimerate
crowed
ShortagesoffluvaccinearenothingnewinAmerica,butthisyear’sisawhopper.Untillastweek,itappearedthat100millio
Whatdidthepoliceofficerthreatentodo?
随机试题
A.炮附片B.延胡索C.地榆D.川芎E.白芷呈不规则的圆形厚片,切面黄色,角质样,具蜡样光泽的饮片是()。
有关x线照片对比度的叙述,错误的是
根据规定,对不在中华人民共和国领域内居住的人和对下落不明或者宣告失踪的人提起的有关身份关系的诉讼,由原告经常居住地人民法院管辖。()
直线结构的优点不包括【】
简述小岛清的协议分工理论的前提条件。
从使用范围的角度来看,ISO9000系列标准用于()。
某施工企业欲租用一种施工设备,与商家甲谈妥每月租金2000元,并支付了定金200元,定金不可退还,此后又有商家乙愿以每月1700元出租同样的设备,如果重新进行租用设备方案的比选,则沉没成本为()元。【2007年考试真题】
()是以了解员工素质现状或查找问题根源为目的的测评。
从编号为1,2,…,10的球中任取4个,则所取4个球的最大号码是6的概率为().
在曲线y=(x一1)2上的点(2,1)处作曲线的法线,由该法线、x轴及该曲线所围成的区域为D(y>0),则区域D绕x轴旋转一周所成的几何体的体积为().
最新回复
(
0
)