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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.
【C18】
选项 A、prefer
B、proceed
C、process
D、predict
答案C
解析 上下文语义题。空格处填入动词，说明乐器训练帮助大脑怎样——声音。逗号后面的结果状语making it easier to stay focused“使之更容易集中注意力”及下文提到的“擅长音乐的人在隔壁办公室的同事对着下属尖叫时，仍能给客户打完电话”体现的均是人们对吵杂声音的免疫能力，由此推断乐器训练有助于更好地应对声音，C项process“处理”填入文中表示“更好地处理声音”，符合语义。A项prefer“更喜欢”填入文中表示“帮助大脑更喜欢声音”，虽然语义通顺，但和后文提及的“在吵闹的环境中能专注”内容衔接突兀。B项proceed“前进”和D项predict“预言”填入文中分别表示“帮助大脑更好地使声音前进”、“帮助大脑更好地预言声音”，二者语义、逻辑皆不通。
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