2017年8月19日雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Music: Language We All Speak

2017年8月19日雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Music: Language We All Speak

Section A

Music is one of the human specie’s relatively few universal abilities. Without formal training, any individual, from Stone Age tribes man to suburban teenager, has the ability to recognize music and, in some fashion, to ,make it. Why this should be so is a mystery. After all, music isn’t necessary for getting through the day, and if it aids in reproduction, it does so only in highly indirect ways. Language, by contrast, is also everywhere – but for reasons that are more obvious. With language, you and the members of your tribe can organize a migration across Africa, build reed boats and cross the seas, and communicate at night even when you can’t see each other. Modern culture, in all its technological extravagance, springs directly from the human talent for manipulating symbols and syntax.Scientists have always been intrigued by the connection between music and language. Yet over the years, words and melody have acquired a vastly different status in the lab and the seminar room. While language has long been considered essential to unlocking the mechanisms of human intelligence, music is generally treated as an evolutionary frippery – mere “auditory cheese cake,” as the Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker puts it.

Section B

But thanks to a decade-long wave of neuroscience research, that tune is changing. A flurry of recent publications suggests that language and music may equally be able to tell us who were are and where we’re from – not just emotionally, but biologically. And in an article in the August 6 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, David Schwartz, Catherine Howe, and Dale Purves of Duke University argued that the sounds of music and the sounds of language are intricately connected.

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Questions 27-31

Reading Passage 3 has five sections A-E.

Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number i-viii in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

i. Animal sometimes make music.

ii. Recent research on music

iii. Culture embedded in music

iv. Historical theories review

v. Communication in music with animals

vi. Contrast between music and language

vii. Questions on a biological link with human and music

viii. Music is good for babies.

27. Section A

28. Section B

29. Section C

30. Section D

31. Section E

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