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【B1】______"the Mozart effect." 【B2】______the Telegraph reported earlier this week, the findings【B3】______parents and childcare centers to play the composer"s【B4】______for their little ones, inspired【B5】______moms to pump Mozart"s music through headphones on their bellies, and【B6】______encouraged the state of Georgia to give【B7】______free CDs of the composer"s work to new parents. Yet【B8】______the broad embrace of the theory, critics have【B9】______wondered if it has any actual merit As the AFP reports, the "Mozart effect" is【B10】______number six in the 2009 book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology. And a new inquiry from researchers in Vienna【B11】______with the skeptics: in a【B12】______of 40 studies including some 3,000 people, psychologists at Vienna University found no evidence that listening to Mozart【B13】______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【B14】______—but that was true【B15】______they were listening to Mozart, Bach or Pearl Jam, the AFP reports,【B16】______the notion that it"s external stimulus that【B17】______to improved performance, not Mozart. Of course, researchers still encouraged people to listen to Mozart—if for nothing more than pure【B18】______. As investigator Jakob Pietschnig told the AFP: "I【B19】______everyone listen to Mozart, but it"s not going to【B20】______cognitive abilities as some people hope." 【B14】
A. harmony
B. silence
C. cooperation
D. recovery
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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【B1】______"the Mozart effect." 【B2】______the Telegraph reported earlier this week, the findings【B3】______parents and childcare centers to play the composer"s【B4】______for their little ones, inspired【B5】______moms to pump Mozart"s music through headphones on their bellies, and【B6】______encouraged the state of Georgia to give【B7】______free CDs of the composer"s work to new parents. Yet【B8】______the broad embrace of the theory, critics have【B9】______wondered if it has any actual merit As the AFP reports, the "Mozart effect" is【B10】______number six in the 2009 book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology. And a new inquiry from researchers in Vienna【B11】______with the skeptics: in a【B12】______of 40 studies including some 3,000 people, psychologists at Vienna University found no evidence that listening to Mozart【B13】______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【B14】______—but that was true【B15】______they were listening to Mozart, Bach or Pearl Jam, the AFP reports,【B16】______the notion that it"s external stimulus that【B17】______to improved performance, not Mozart. Of course, researchers still encouraged people to listen to Mozart—if for nothing more than pure【B18】______. As investigator Jakob Pietschnig told the AFP: "I【B19】______everyone listen to Mozart, but it"s not going to【B20】______cognitive abilities as some people hope." 【B19】
A. demand
B. recommend
C. advise
D. require
Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be a game of some【B1】______—football, hockey, golf, or tennis. It may be mountaineering. Those who have a(n) 【B2】______for climbing mountains are often【B3】______with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to【B4】______cold and hardship, and to take risks in high mountains This astonishment is caused,【B5】______, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity. Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules,【B6】______there are for such games as golf and football. There are, 【B7】______, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to【B8】______, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering【B9】______to many people. Those who climb mountains are【B10】______to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more【B11】______sports, we might think that one big【B12】______is that mountaineering is not a "team game". We should be mistaken【B13】______this. There are, it is true, no "matches" between "teams" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face【B14】______by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is【B15】______teamwork. The mountain climber knows that he may have to【B16】______forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. His sport requires high mental and physical【B17】______. A skier is probably past his【B18】______by the age of thirty, and most international tennis champions are in their early twenties. But it is not【B19】______for men of fifty or sixty to climb the highest mountains in the Alps. They may take more time than younger men, but they probably climb with more skill and less【B20】______of effort, and they certainly experience equal enjoyment. 【B17】
A. limitation
B. goodness
C. levels
D. qualities
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【B1】______"the Mozart effect." 【B2】______the Telegraph reported earlier this week, the findings【B3】______parents and childcare centers to play the composer"s【B4】______for their little ones, inspired【B5】______moms to pump Mozart"s music through headphones on their bellies, and【B6】______encouraged the state of Georgia to give【B7】______free CDs of the composer"s work to new parents. Yet【B8】______the broad embrace of the theory, critics have【B9】______wondered if it has any actual merit As the AFP reports, the "Mozart effect" is【B10】______number six in the 2009 book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology. And a new inquiry from researchers in Vienna【B11】______with the skeptics: in a【B12】______of 40 studies including some 3,000 people, psychologists at Vienna University found no evidence that listening to Mozart【B13】______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【B14】______—but that was true【B15】______they were listening to Mozart, Bach or Pearl Jam, the AFP reports,【B16】______the notion that it"s external stimulus that【B17】______to improved performance, not Mozart. Of course, researchers still encouraged people to listen to Mozart—if for nothing more than pure【B18】______. As investigator Jakob Pietschnig told the AFP: "I【B19】______everyone listen to Mozart, but it"s not going to【B20】______cognitive abilities as some people hope." 【B15】
A. that
B. whether
C. what
D. if
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【B1】______"the Mozart effect." 【B2】______the Telegraph reported earlier this week, the findings【B3】______parents and childcare centers to play the composer"s【B4】______for their little ones, inspired【B5】______moms to pump Mozart"s music through headphones on their bellies, and【B6】______encouraged the state of Georgia to give【B7】______free CDs of the composer"s work to new parents. Yet【B8】______the broad embrace of the theory, critics have【B9】______wondered if it has any actual merit As the AFP reports, the "Mozart effect" is【B10】______number six in the 2009 book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology. And a new inquiry from researchers in Vienna【B11】______with the skeptics: in a【B12】______of 40 studies including some 3,000 people, psychologists at Vienna University found no evidence that listening to Mozart【B13】______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【B14】______—but that was true【B15】______they were listening to Mozart, Bach or Pearl Jam, the AFP reports,【B16】______the notion that it"s external stimulus that【B17】______to improved performance, not Mozart. Of course, researchers still encouraged people to listen to Mozart—if for nothing more than pure【B18】______. As investigator Jakob Pietschnig told the AFP: "I【B19】______everyone listen to Mozart, but it"s not going to【B20】______cognitive abilities as some people hope." 【B13】
A. actually
B. directly
C. continually
D. gradually