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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.
【C15】
选项 A、contend
B、convey
C、conceive
D、convince
答案D
解析 上下文语义题。空格处填入谓语动词，后接双宾语“政府官员”和宾语从句“音乐课并非仅是一种装饰”。These results指本段第一、第二句提到的科学家所发现的“音乐的积极作用”，即产生深远的变化、提升学习能力。可见，这种发现结果应是令人欣喜、让人信服的。D项convince “使相信”常用于convince sb. of sth. 或convince sb. that…. 填入句中表示“这些结果应该令政府官员相信，音乐课并非仅是一种装饰”，符合文中语境。A项contend“争夺”和C项conceive“设想”的施动者往往是人，主语These results无法发出此动作。B项convey“传达”虽然表示传达某种信息，但没有convey sb. that…这种用法，通常是convey sth. 或其后直接接宾语从句。
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