题目内容
Their music and jokes were based loosely __________the band called "The Beatles".
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Imagine being at the height of your powers．
Imagine fingers that effortlessly move across the strings or keyboard．
Imagine the applause of a packed concert hall．
NO MORE ENCORES
Now, imagine having fingers that no longer do what is required of them． You sit by the phone waiting for the call that never comes． You worry about the pile of unpaid bills． Imagine , after years of creating joy for others, the loneliness and poverty of old age． Imagine the loss of an en-tire way of life． For a fortunate few, Symphony provides comfortable retirement homes for musi-cians no longer able to look after themselves． With like-minded people they can revisit their tri-umphs and live indignity．
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Symphony homes are founded by people like you． To continue our work we rely on donations and money left to us in wills． We ask you to remember the musicians who have given so much pleasure． Once they received your applause - now they need your financial support．
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3．What words and expressions does the writer use to ask for contributions?
Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say there's no scientific evidence that early musical training affects the intelligence of young people.
An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve children's abilily to learn or their performance in school. They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.
Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there's one thing musical training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvard's School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child's intellectual development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual arts—arts that can be seen.
"The evidence there is 'no'. We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music clases," said Mehr.Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of child's intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group.
The researchers comfirmed the results with a larger group of children and their parents.Mr Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, "We teach music because music is important for us."
1.According to the new study, musical training______.
A. makes children smarter????????????????????????
B. helps a child express creativity
C. does not make children more intelligent??????????
D. improve children's ability to learn in school
2.Samuel Mehr may agree that______.
A. the children who attended music class are smarter than those who attended arts class
B. IQ is a good measure of a child's intelligence
C. we needn't to teach children music
D. music training is still important for cultural reasons
3.In order to confirm his view, Samuel Mehr______.
A. conducted more than one research
B. interviewed many American adults
C. taught two groups of 4-yetr-olds music and arts
D. offered children a fast way to be admitted to the best schools
4.The artical may be taken from a report about _____.
A. health????????????? B. education????????????? C. ????????????? culture????????????? D.economy
