雅思阅读真题（Part 3）
Part 3 · 考频：高频 · 最近考试：2024.6.22
How does someone become expert in music? And IS it really possible to have a ‘talent’ for music?
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答案：C who can perform extremely well in early childhood.
原文定位：Talent can be defined as something that originates in genetic structures and that is identifiable by trained people who can recognize its existence before a person has achieved exceptional levels of performance. The emphasis on early identification means that to investigate it, we study the development of skills in children
答案：C whether a feature of the brain is a cause or an effect of a musical skill.
原文定位：This suggests that the planum is involved in AP, but it’s not clear if it starts out larger in people who eventually acquire AP, or if the acquisition of AP makes the planum increase in size
答案：A Changes may occur in the brain following violin practice.
原文定位：Studies of violin players have shown that the region of the brain responsible for controlling the movement of the left hand;the hand that requires greater precision in violin playing;increases in size as a result of practice
答案：A talent may have little to do with expertise.
原文定位：Several years later, it was found that the students who achieved the highest performance ratings had practiced the most, irrespective of which ‘talent’ group they had been assigned to, suggesting that practice does not merely correlate with achievement, but causes it
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：Anders Ericsson, at Florida state University, approaches the topic of musical expertise as a general problem in cognitive psychology. He takes as a starting point the assumption that there are certain issues involved in becoming an expert at anything; that we can learn about musical expertise by studying expert chess players, athletes, artists, mathematicians, as well as the musicians themselves
答案：YES
原文定位：The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players and master criminals, this number comes up again and again
答案：NOT GIVEN
原文定位：ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert;Someone would do this amount of practice if they practiced, for example, roughly 20 hours a week for ten years
答案：NO
原文定位：Of course, this does not address why some people do not seem to get anywhere when they practice, and why some people get more out of their practice sessions than others. But no-one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time
答案：NO
原文定位：But no-one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time
答案：YES
原文定位：The ten-thousand-hour theory is consistent with what we know about how the brain learns. Learning requires the assimilation and consolidation of information in neural tissue. The more experiences we have with something, the stronger the memory/learning trace for that experience becomes. Although people differ in how long it takes them to consolidate information neutrally, it remains true that increased practice leads to a greater number of neural traces, which create stronger memory representation
答案：E tuition
原文定位：And Mozart had an expert teacher in his father, who was renowned as a teacher of musicians all over Europe
答案：D eight
原文定位：First, there is a factual error here: Mozart did not write it until he was eight, still, this is unusual, to say the least
答案：A popular
原文定位：However, this early work received little acclaim and was not performed very often
答案：G inherited
原文定位：This does not mean that there are no genetic factors involved in Mozart’s greatness, but that inborn traits may not be the only cause