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【2011·河北邢台市一模】

Parents who spend time and money to teach their children music, take heart-a new Canadian study show young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical fellows.

“The research tells us that if you take music lessons your brain is getting wired up differently than if you don't take music lessons,” Laurel Trainor, professor of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, said.

    “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,” said Trainor .

Over a year they took four measurements in two groups of children aged between four and six -- those taking music lessons and those taking no musical training outside school -- and found developmental changes over periods as short as four months.

The children completed a music test in which they were asked to discriminate between harmonies, rhythms and melodies, and a memory test in which they had to listen to a series of numbers, remember them and repeat them back.

Trainor said while previous studies have shown that older children given music lessons had greater improvements in IQ scores than children given drama lessons, this is the first study to identify these effects in brain-based measurements in young children.

She said it was not that surprising that children studying music improved in musical listening skills more than children not studying music.

57．The main idea of the passage is           .

       A．how children like music                       

       B．whether music is good for adults

       C．that children are wiser if they are taught music                      

       D．how we leach music

58．The research is conducted on       .

       A．children under 6                                  B．children over 4

       C．adults                                                 D．children between 4 and 6

59．The experiment is to prove

      A．whether musically trained and untrained children change differently

       B．which are wiser, older children or younger children.

       C．which are wiser, children given music lessons or children given drama lessons.

       D．whether children should have music lessons.

60．What were the student asked to do in the experiment?

       A．The students only had a music test

       B．The students told the differences between music lessons

       C．The students had both a music lest and a memory test

       D．The students were asked to sing some songs

Answer 1

【答案】CDAC