三、完形填空

　　Music is the art of thinking with sounds.—Jules Combarieu 

　　(改编自衡水万卷2016届高三英语二轮复习高考作业卷二十)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 ____ that listening to Mozart’s Sonata(奏鸣曲)could boost mental functioning. It was not long ____ 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 ____ 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.

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