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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

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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 riley 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 modern. A long string of names comes to mind—Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker... and so on.
    None of this presupposes any special innate (先天的) ability of blacks in music. On the contrary, it is perfectly consisted 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 ranger of music, as well as into mathematics, science and engineering.
What can be inferred about opera?
选项 A、It requires formal training.
B、It is often enjoyed by those with strong analytical ability.
C、It is disliked by blacks.
D、It is more difficult to learn than classical music.
答案A
解析 推理判断题。根据文中第四段第一句，可以判断出选项A“它需要正规的训练”是对该问题的合理解释。B“它经常受到很强的分析能力的人的欢迎”在文中没有直接提到，也无法推断出；C“它不被黑人所喜欢”与第四段第二句的论述不符；D“它比古典音乐难学”与第四段第一句的论述不符。第四段第一句前半部分说黑人就是在不需要正规训练的方面脱颗而出的，后半部分则举例说黑人多擅长流行音乐、钢琴和布鲁斯音乐而不是古典音乐、小提琴和歌剧，可见歌剧属于需要正规训练的一类，故选A。
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