Question

Just the sounds of the 1960 movie thriller Psycho may be enough to get your heart racing. Even when we may not be aware of it, 1. (hear ) music can affect our bodies as 2. ( good)as our minds. But are the physiological effects of music unique 3. one culture or are they more general?

4. (find )out the answer, researchers enlisted 40 Canadians from downtown Montreal and 40 Pygmies from the Congo rainforest. All the volunteers 5. ( listen) to musical clips from the movies Star Wars and Schindler's List, and to music from Pygmy culture.

As the 6. ( participate)listened, the researchers observed their 7. ( emotion) reactions, as well as changes in heart rate, breathing rate and palm-sweat production. The two groups disagreed about whether a particular musical selection was happy or sad. But they all had similar levels of arousal.

These findings suggest that some aspects of how we react to music are universal, rather 8. strictly cultural.

The study 9. (publish )in the journal Frontiers in Psychology last month. It showed fundamental acoustical（音响的） features seem to be responsible for the similar responses of the Canadians and the Congolese Pygmies.

Does that finding mean that science can help create the world's most 10. (universe )catching pop song?

Answer 1

1.hearing

2.well

3.to

4.To find

5.listened

6.participants

7.emotional

8.than

9.was published

10.universally

【解析】

文章大意：音乐会让人们心跳加速，可以影响人们的身体和思想。但是音乐独特的生理效应是具有文化性还是具有普遍性呢？为了找到答案，研究人员对此进行了实验，在让他们听音乐的同时观察参与者的情绪反应和心理生理反应。

1.hearing 考查非谓语动词。从结构判断句子缺少主语，用动名词形式，填hearing。

2.well 考查副词。固定短语as well as “还有“，填well。

3.to考查介词。固定搭配：be unique to“独一无二的，独有的”，填to。

4.To find考查非谓语动词。从句意判断此处是非谓语短语表示目的，用不定式，填To find。

5.listened考查动词时态。介绍实验的情况用一般过去时，填listened。

6.participants考查名词。从上文可知一共40个人参与了实验，用复数名词participants。

7.emotional考查形容词。修饰名词用形容词，填emotional。

8.than考查连词。从上文内容可知音乐是没有文化界限的，rather than“而不是”，填than。

9.was published考查被动语态。根据last month判断用一般过去时，从句意可知用被动形式，填was published。

10.universally考查副词。修饰形容词catching用副词形式，填universally。

考点：考查语法填空