07医学考博英语真题精讲2.pptVIP

07医学考博英语真题精讲(阅读) 主讲人:曹萍 Part IV Reading Comprehension (30%) Passage One The popular idea that classical music can improve your maths is falling form favor不受支持.(61) 同位语丛句New experiments have failed to support the widely publicized finding that Mozart’s music promotes mathematical thinking. 61. It has been recently found out that _________ a. Mozart had an aptitude 智能of music because of his mathematical thinking b.classical music cannot be expected to improve one’s math c. the effects of music on health are widely recognized d. music favors one’s mathematical thinking Reading Researchers reported six years age that listening to Mozart brings about short-term improvements in spatial-temporal reasoning,暂短的空间推理 the type of thinking used in maths. Gordon Shaw(63) of the University of California at Irvine and Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh had asked students to perform spatial tasks such as imagining how a piece of paper would look if it were folded and cut in a certain pattern. 63. In Shaw’s test, the students would most probably_______ a.draw the image of the cut paper b.improve their mathematical thinking c.have the idea about classical music confirmed d.increase the number of neurons in their brains Reading Comprehension Some of the students then listened to a Mozart sonata. [音]奏鸣曲 and took the test again. The performance (62)of the Mozart group improved, Shaw found. He reasoned that listening to Mozart increases the number of connections between neurons. [解]神经细胞, 神经元 But Kenneth Steele of Appalachian State University in North Carolina learnt that other studies failed to find this effect. He decided to repeat one of Shaw’s experiments to see for himself. 62. Which of the following pairs, according to the widely publicized finding, is connected? a.Paper cutting and spatial thinking b.The nature of a task and the type of thinking c.Classical music and mathematical performance d.Mathematical thinking and spatial-temporal reasoni