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.
【C7】

选项 A、moreover
B、therefore
C、however
D、then

答案C

解析 语义逻辑题。空格后的benefits提示,近年来科学家们认识到音乐的好处,这与首句的to be weak,perhaps nonexistent“单薄,或许不存在”在语义上形成转折对比关系,故选表转折的C项however“然而”。A项moreover“此外”表递进关系。B项therefore“因此”表结果。D项then“其次;那时”表罗列或表时间。均无法表达上下文之间的对比转折关系。
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