英语综合教程3 第7 单元第二部分完成版.pptx

Active reading (2)The diva within词汇Paragraph 1Can anyone learn to sing? I t’s a question that haunted（环绕、缠绕） me as I was writing my most recent book The singing Neanderthals. My research had persuaded me that musicality （音乐欣赏能力）is deeply embedded （使融入） in the human genome （基因组、染色体组）, with far more ancient evolutionary roots than spoken language. Yet here I was , unable to carry a tune or match a rhythm. Friends and academic colleagues claimed this was simply because I had been “turned off ’from music as a child and if only I took a few lessons I would find my voice . Maybe they were right. So humiliated was I by music teachers who made me opportunity and haven’t participated in anything musical for over 35 years .Perhaps I could learn to sing. 考古学家史蒂文 ? 米森在学习唱歌的时候发现，音乐确实可以改变人的思维方式。人人都能学会唱歌吗？在撰写我最新出版的《唱着歌的尼安德特人》一书时，这个问题就一直萦绕在我的心头。 我做的研究让我相信音乐才能是深深植根于人类基因中的，从进化史的角度来说，它比人类的口头语言都要古老得多。 可是我本人一唱起歌来不是跑调，就是跟不上节奏。 朋友们和学术同僚们都说，那都是因为我小时候对音乐失去了兴趣，只要上几节音乐课，我一定能放声歌唱。 也许他们是对的。 记得小时候，音乐老师们让我在全班同学面前独“唱”，让我觉得很丢脸。所以后来一有机会，我就躲开音乐，35年来从来没有参加过任何音乐活动。 说不定学一学我也能唱得不错。Paragraph 2The more I thought about It , the more I realized that here was an opportunity not be missed. As well as testing whether I could improve my tone, pitch and rhythm, perhaps I could also find out what was happening inside my brain as I tried to learn how to sing. I had recently read an article by researcher Larry Parsons at the university of Sheffield , UK, entitled （题名）“The song system of the human brain ” ,and then met him at a conference . With the help of functional （实用的）MRI he had begun to identify which areas of the brain are recruited when we engage with music. Some of these areas are evidently （显然的）used for both music and other activities and some , such as the planum polare , in the temporal lobe, appear to be specialized for processing music . I wanted to know whether learning to sing could actually change the way my brain worked. 我越想就越觉得这是个不容错过的好机会。 除了看看能不能改善我的音调、音高和节奏感之外，或许我还能发现学习唱歌的时候大脑会有什么样的变化。 最近读了英国谢