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姓名：__________班级：__________考号：__________ 、完形填空 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 Music is the art of thinking with sounds. Jules Combarieu Music produces significant and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add music classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago, a small study advanced the __1__ that listening to Mozart’s Sonata（奏鸣曲could boost mental functioning. It was not long __2__ trademarked “Mozart effect” products began to __3_ anxious parents aiming to put toddlers（刚学步的孩子on the fast track to top-ranking universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgia’s governor even __4__ giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette. The __5__ for Mozart therapy turned out to be weak, perhaps nonexistent, although the __6__ study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, __7__, scientists have examined the benefits of a continuous __8__ to study and practice music, in contrast to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based “brain fitness” game __9__. Advanced monitoring __10__ have/has enabled scientists to see what happens inside your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music __11__ can produce significant and lasting changes that __12__ the general ability to learn. These results should __13__ public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ready for being given up in the budget crises that constantly __14__ public schools. | 
