2016年《全程复习方略》人教版大一轮总复习 课时提升作业 必修2 Unit 5 Music.docVIP

课时提升作业(十) 必修2　Unit 5 (建议用时25分钟) Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A　　Recent research shows young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical peers. 　　The research, published in the online edition of the journal Brain, showed that after one year of musical training, children did better in a memory test than those who did not take music classes. 　　“The research tells us that if you take music lessons your brain is getting wired up differently, ”Laurel Trainor, professor of psychology at McMaster University, 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(旋律), 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 drama(戏剧)and painting lessons had greater improvements in IQ scores than children who didn’t; children given music lessons did better than those given drama. 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. 　　“On the other hand, it is very interesting that the children taking music lessons improved more on general memory skills that are correlated with nonmusical abilities such as literacy, verbal memory, visuospatial processing, mathematics and IQ, ”she said. 【文章大意】本文主要介绍了一项新的发现: 上过音乐课的儿童比没有上过音乐课的儿童记忆力好。 1. What can we learn from the passage? A. The stud