When people are deaf to music

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题目与答案

1. 27 What does the writer tell US about people with tone deafness (amusia) in the first paragraph?
   • They usually have hearing problems.
   • Some can play a musical instrument very well.
   • Some may be able to sing well-known melodies.
   • They have several inabilities in regard to music.

   答案：They have several inabilities in regard to music.

   原文定位：It is not simply that people with tone deafness (or' amusia") are unable to sing in tune, they are also unable to discriminate between tones or recognize familiar melodies

   同义替换：「tone deafness」↔「tone deafness」，「inabilities」↔「unable to」，「in regard to music」↔「sing in tune，discriminate between tones，recognize familiar melodies」

2. 28 What is the writer doing in the second paragraph?
   • outlining some of factors that cause amusia
   • summarising some findings about people with amusia
   • suggesting that people with amusia are disadvantaged
   • comparing the sing ability of amusia with their sense

   答案：summarising some findings about people with amusia

   原文定位：According to the research of Dr. Isabelle Peretz;amusia is more complicated than the inability to distinguish pitches;An amusia can distinguish between two pitches that are far apart;but cannot tell the difference between intervals smaller than a half step;amusics perform significantly worse at singing and tapping a rhythm along with a melody than do non-amusics

   同义替换：「summarising some findings」↔「According to the research」，「people with amusia」↔「amusics」

3. 29 What does the writer say about the relationship between language ability and musical ability?
   • People who are unable to speak can sometimes sing.
   • People with amusia usually have language problems too.
   • Speakers of tonal languages like Chinese rarely have amusia.
   • People with amusia have difficulty recognizing people by their voices.

   答案：People who are unable to speak can sometimes sing.

   原文定位：People with brain damage in areas critical to language are often still able to sing, despite being unable to communicate through speech

   同义替换：「language ability and musical ability」↔「language and music ability」，「unable to speak」↔「unable to communicate through speech」，「can sometimes sing」↔「are often still able to sing」

4. 30 In the third paragraph, the writer notes that most amusics are able to
   • learn how to sing in tune
   • identify a song by its tune
   • distinguish a sad tone from a happy tune
   • recognise when a singer is not sing in tune

   答案：distinguish a sad tone from a happy tune

   原文定位：Amusics are also successful most of the time at detecting the mood of a melody

   同义替换：「amusics」↔「Amusics」，「are able to」↔「are successful most of the time at」，「distinguish a sad tone from a happy tune」↔「detecting the mood of a melody」

5. 31 What is the writer doing in the fourth paragraph?
   • claiming that amusics have problems in the auditory cortex
   • outlining progress in understanding the brains of amusics
   • proving that amuisa is located in the temporal lobes
   • explaining why studies of hearing are difficult

   答案：outlining progress in understanding the brains of amusics

   原文定位：Recent work has been focused on locating the part of the brain that is responsible for amusia;Researchers moved on to the temporal neocortex;New studies;however;have suggested that the deficits in amusics are located outside the auditory cortex

   同义替换：「understanding the brains of amusics」↔「located outside the auditory cortex」

6. 32 Perezt's research suggesting that amusia is a disorder is convincing.
   • YES
   • NO
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NO

   原文定位：Looking only at the research of Peretz in the field of neuropsychology of music, it would appear that amusia is some sort of disorder. As a student of neurobiology, however, I am skeptical

   同义替换：「Peretz's research」↔「research of Peretz」，「suggesting that amusia is a disorder」↔「it would appear that amusia is some sort of disorder」，「is convincing」↔「I am skeptical」

7. 33 People with musical ability are happier than those without this ability.
   • YES
   • NO
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   同义替换：「musical ability」↔「」，「happier」↔「」

8. 34 It is inappropriate to consider amusia as real disorder.
   • YES
   • NO
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：YES

   原文定位：While the idea of amusia is interesting, it seems to be just one end of the continuum of innate musical ability;Comparing this ‘disorder’ to learning disorders like a specific language impairment seems to be going too far

   同义替换：「inappropriate」↔「going too far」，「consider」↔「comparing」，「disorder」↔「impairment」

9. 35 People with amusia often have bad handwriting.
   • YES
   • NO
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：If no disadvantages can be found of having amusia, then it is no more a disability than having poor fashion sense or bad handwriting

   同义替换：「people with amusia」↔「having amusia」，「often have bad handwriting」↔「bad handwriting」

10. The reason why some people are born with amusia is
    • an inability to hear when spoken language rises and falls.
    • considered to be desirable.
    • an inability to follow the beat of music.
    • not a problem.
    • not yet well understood.
    • a result of injury to the mother.

    答案：not yet well understood.

    原文定位：recently research has been undertaken in an attempt to discover the cause of congenital amusia

    同义替换：「born with」↔「congenital」，「the reason why」↔「cause」，「not yet well understood」↔「research has been undertaken in an attempt to discover」

11. One of the difficulties amusia experience is
    • an inability to hear when spoken language rises and falls.
    • considered to be desirable.
    • an inability to follow the beat of music.
    • not a problem.
    • not yet well understood.
    • a result of injury to the mother.

    答案：an inability to follow the beat of music.

    原文定位：As would be expected, amusics perform significantly worse at singing and tapping a rhythm along with a melody than do non-amusics

    同义替换：「One of the difficulties amusics experience」↔「perform significantly worse at」，「follow the beat of music」↔「tapping a rhythm along with a melody」，「an inability to follow the beat of music」↔「」

12. For amusia, discrimination of meaning in speech is
    • an inability to hear when spoken language rises and falls.
    • considered to be desirable.
    • an inability to follow the beat of music.
    • not a problem.
    • not yet well understood.
    • a result of injury to the mother.

    答案：not a problem.

    原文定位：The linguistic cues inherent in speech make discrimination of meaning much easier for amusics

    同义替换：「discrimination of meaning in speech」↔「discriminating between words」，「amusics」↔「amusics」，「not a problem」↔「do not report having any difficulty」

13. Certain reactions in the brain of an amusia are
    • an inability to hear when spoken language rises and falls.
    • considered to be desirable.
    • an inability to follow the beat of music.
    • not a problem.
    • not yet well understood.
    • a result of injury to the mother.

    答案：more marked that with other people.

    原文定位：when changes in tones are large, their brains overreact, showing twice as much activity on the right side of the brain as a normal brain hearing the same thing

    同义替换：「certain reactions in the brain」↔「brains overreact」，「more marked than with other people」↔「twice as much activity as a normal brain」

14. In most cultures, musical ability is
    • an inability to hear when spoken language rises and falls.
    • considered to be desirable.
    • an inability to follow the beat of music.
    • not a problem.
    • not yet well understood.
    • a result of injury to the mother.

    答案：considered to be desirable.

    原文定位：Musical ability is culturally valued

    同义替换：「In most cultures」↔「culturally valued」，「musical ability」↔「Musical ability」，「considered to be desirable」↔「culturally valued」