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四、閱讀測驗【請依照段落上下文意，選出最適當的答案】 第一篇   Some scientists have theorized that music evokes emotion by tapping into deep rooted psychological constructsthat have developed in our psyche as humans evolved over time. In UConn’s Music Dynamics Lab in the College ofLiberal Arts and Sciences, psychology professor Edward Large and his research team are exploring how musiccommunicates emotion inside the brain.   Neuroscientists like Large believe that music, rather than mimicking some other form of social or primalcommunication, speaks to the brain in a language all of its own.“Our hypothesis is that music, because of its uniquestructure, oscillations, rhythm, and tempo, is somehow able to directly couple into these oscillating neural systems thatare responsible for emotion,” Large says.   Nicole Flaig, a master’s student conducting research on music and emotion in Large’s lab, says:“It’s as if musicspeaks at the same level as the brain. You have frequencies coming from either the tone or the rhythm in music andthose frequencies can, we believe, influence the frequencies of the brain. If those frequencies sound good to someone,it means they are resonating more with the parts of the brain that control emotion.”   “So if we have music that is doing this,”Large continues,“then it is literally going to resonate with your happyplace and you are going to feel that feeling.” Of course, Large will tell you the whole process is much, much morecomplicated than that, and both he and Flaig are eager to gain access to UConn’s new functional magnetic resonanceimaging (fMRI) scanner to probe exactly how the brain’s various underlying neural systems are reacting andconnecting with each other as we perceive and process music stimuli.   Large believes that the research could have implications far beyond the music world. Music, as a highlystructured, temporal means of communication, has much in common with language, he says. By studying the neuralprocesses underlying the perception of musical pitch, rhythm, and tonality, he believes we can gain greater insight intohow our minds process language and speech patterns.   “What we’re after is meaning, and how meaning is communicated,”says Large.“We believe music communicatesmeaning much more directly than speech. Speech has a lot of these abstract symbols called words, and that gets kindof complicated. Music doesn’t have that, which is why we believe we are going to understand music and emotion longbefore we understand speech and emotion.”
31. Where is the passage most likely taken?
(A) From a review of neuropsychological study on music and the mind.
(B) From a guide to how to compose music that evokes positive feelings.
(C) From an analytical report of brain imaging and human brain function.
(D) From an introduction to outstanding scientists and their contributions.

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答案：A
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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