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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)分类模拟题71 Use of English A 1993 study showing that students who did reasoning tests while listening to the 1781 Sonata for Two Pianos in D by Mozart tended to outperform those who did so in a silent room launched a widespread belief in what is commonly referred to 1 the Mozart effect.  2 the Telegraph reported earlier this week, the findings 3 parents and childcare centers to play the composers 4 for their little ones, inspired 5 morns to pump Mozarts music through headphones on their bellies, and 6 encouraged the state of Georgia to give 7 free CDs of the composers work to new parents. Yet 8 the broad embrace of the theory, critics have 9 wondered ff it has any actual merit. As the AFP reports, the Mozart effect is 10 number six in the 2009 book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology.  And a new inquiry from researchers in Vienna 11 with the skeptics: in a 12 of 40 studies including some 3,000 people, psychologists at Vienna University found no evidence that listening to Mozart 13 makes people smarter. They did find that people who listened to music while completing reasoning tests performed better than those who took the tests in 14 -but that was true 15 they were listening to Mozart, Bach or Pearl Jam, the AFP reports, 16 the notion that its external stimulus that 17 to in, proved performance, not Mozart.  Of course, researchers still encouraged people to listen to Mozart-if for nothing more than pure 18 As investigator Jakob Pietschnig told the AFP: I 19 everyone listen to Mozart, but its not going to 20 cognitive abilities as some people hope. 1.A.asB.byC.likeD.in答案:A[解析] 语义逻辑题，考查介词的用法。空格处所缺的是介词，要考虑句意和搭配。根据空格后的专有名词“the Mozart effect”(莫扎特效应)，推断前面应填能表示“称为”之义的短语。refer to as意为“称为，把……称作”，符合句意，故选A项。 B项“be referred to by sb.”意为“被某人称为”，by后面跟的应该是施动者，不应该是受动者；C项和D项不能与be ref