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【題目】Music lessons may improve memory and learning ability in your children by promoting different patterns of brain development, a study shows．

After a year of musical training, children aged between 4 and 6 performed better at a standard memory test than did children who were not taught music．The findings suggest that music could be useful for building the learning capacity of your minds．

Earlier studies have shown that older children given music lessons become better at IQ tests than those who are musically untrained, but this is the first to show such a benefit in children so young．

Professor Laurek Trainor, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, also found clear differences in the ways in which children's brains responded to sound after a year of musical training．'This is the first study to show that brain responses in young, musically trained and untrained children change differently over the course of a year," she said．"These changes are likely to be related to the cognitive（ 認知的 ）benefit that is seen with musical training．"

Professor Trainer's team looked at 12 children, 6 of whom had just started extra-curricular （課程外） music lessons and 6 of whom were not being taught any music except that included as a standard part of their school curriculum （課程標準） ．

During the year all 12 children had their brains examined four times using magneto-encephalography （MEG）, and each child was played two types of sound —white noise and a violin tone．The MEG measurements showed that all children responded more to violin sounds than to white noise, reflecting a preferable for meaningful tones, and their response times fell over the course of the year as their brains matured．

【1】This passage is mainly about ____．

A．why music lessons are good for the memory

B．the benefit from extra-curricular training for younger children

C．a(chǎn) study on twelve young children's brains

D．new technology to examine children's brains

【2】It can be concluded from the text that ____．

A．the study is the first one on the effect of musical training on children's brains

B．scientists got no valuable results from the earlier studies on the topic

C．children musically trained remember things better than those untrained

D．older children get more benefit from musical training than younger ones

【3】What do we know about the twelve children tested in the study?

A．None of them had been musically trained before．

B．Only 6 of them had a knowledge of music before．

C．Not all of them had been taught some music in school．

D．All of them were required to learn some music in school．

【4】We know from the MEG measurements that ____．

A．the older a child is, the more quickly he/she responds to sounds

B．human brains prefer musical sounds to white noise

C．children of different ages respond to sounds at the same speed

D．a(chǎn)ll the twelve children like to learn to play the violin very much

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析:本文屬于科普類短文，主要告訴我們音樂對于提高兒童學習能力方面的重要性。

【1】A 主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章主題段第一段Music lessons may improve memory and learning ability in your children by promoting different patterns of brain development, a study shows可知本文主要告訴我們音樂在提高兒童記憶力方面的重要性，在文章里作者還介紹了有關(guān)的實驗。故A正確。

【2】C 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段第一句After a year of musical training, children aged between 4 and 6 performed better at a standard memory test than did children who were not taught music．可知經(jīng)過音樂培訓的兒童要比沒有經(jīng)過音樂培訓的孩子表現(xiàn)更好。故C正確。

【3】D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第五段Professor Trainer's team looked at 12 children, 6 of whom had just started extra-curricular （課程外） music lessons and 6 of whom were not being taught any music except that included as a standard part of their school curriculum （課程標準）�？芍�12各兒童中有6人接受了額外的音樂課程學習，另外6人接受了課程標準中的音樂教育。也就是說12名兒童都接受了音樂方面的培訓。故D正確。

【4】B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)最后一段第二句The MEG measurements showed that all children responded more to violin sounds than to white noise可知根據(jù)腦磁波描記器，兒童對于音樂的聲音更喜歡。故B正確。