問題詳情

Questions 36-40: Choose the BEST answer from the box below for each blank in the passage. 

(A) These participants all did not understand the novel sounds of that language they heard.
(B) They found that exposure to music note prompted activity on both sides of the brain.
(C) Both inputs continue to influence human’s perception of pitch after birth.
(D) The melody of the pitch and words both help convey the message to them.
(E) However, the above prevailing view was challenged by some researchers by the late 1990s.
In the past, scholars used to conceptualize our brain in a dichotic view. While the left hemisphereis responsible for the analysis and processing of language-related information, the right hemispheretakes care of non-linguistic information such as music. 36 For instance, an eminent femaleneuropsychologist, Diana Deutsch, argues that our sensitivity to rhythm and melody helps us learn totalk; language and music are interconnected “partners in the brain” and are complementary in ourcognitive maturation process. Her claim is motivated by the following scientific observations.Stefan Koelsch and his colleagues presented people with sequence of chords and used functionalmagnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to monitor their brains. 37 Notably, activeneuron activity was detected in the core brain area traditionally associated with language processing.This finding entails that the brain areas governing music and language overlap. This neurologicaloverlap can be attributed to an etymological common ground between the two—they are governedby systematic rules, in which constituent elements (e.g., music note vs. word) are hierarchicallyorganized into sequences (e.g., melody vs. sentence).Researchers from Northwestern University found that an awareness of music can make peoplemore attuned to the melody of speech. In a 2007 investigation, these researchers exposed Englishspeakers to Mandarin speech sounds and employed electrodes placed on the scalp to measure theelectrical responses in their auditory brain stem. 38 The researchers observed that those who hadreceived some musical training consistently exhibited a much stronger electrical response to thespeech in the auditory brain stem than those who had no music training.Focusing on prenatal babies, some German neuroscientists found out that both language andmusical prosodies can penetrate the womb. 39 Babies smile when hearing high-pitch discoursethat indicates approval and praise, and become depressed when hearing low-pitched prohibitions.40 Not only can exposure to music enhance our language skills, but the speech we hear alsoinfluences our perception of music.
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參考答案

答案：E
難度：簡單0.833333
統計：A(2),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(10)

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