2常见银行英语完形填空 Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add music classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago, a small study advanced the 62 that listening to Mozarts Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major could boost mental functioning. It was not long 63 trademarked “Mozart effect” products began to appeal to anxious parents aiming to put toddlers (刚学步的孩子) 64 the fast track to prestigious universities like Harvard and Yale. Georgias governor even 65 giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette. The 66 for Mozart therapy turned out to be weak, perhaps nonexistent, although the 67 study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, 68 , scientists have examined the benefits of a concerted 69 to study and practice music, as 70 to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based“brain fitness” game 71 in a while. Advanced monitoring 72 have enabled scientists to see what happens 73 your head when you listen to your mother and actually practice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music 74 can produce profound and lasting changes that 75 the general ability to learn. These results should 76 public officials that music classes are not a mere decoration, ripe for discarding in the budget crises that constantly 77 public schools. Studies have shown that 78 instrument training from an early age can help the brain to 79 sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to mathematics. The musically adept (擅长的)are better able to 80 on a biology lesson despite the noise in the classroom 81 , a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next office starts screaming a subordinate. They can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking.262.A)notice B)note C)notion D)notification63.A)that B)until C)since D)Before64.A)up B)by C)on D)at65.A)propelled B) proposed C) submitted D)subjected66.A)witness B) evidence C) symptom D)context67.A)subtle B) elementary C) sensitive D)original68.A)however B)moreover C) then D)therefore69.A)effort B)impulse C) object D)attention70.A)opposed B)accustomed C) related D)devoted71.A)quite B)once C) often D)much72.A)organisms B)techniques C) mechanisms D)mechanics73.A)upon B)amid C) among D)inside74.A)subjects B)models C) causes D)lessons75.A)enhance B)introduce C) accelerate D)elaborate76.A)contend B) convey C) conceive D)convince77.A)trouble B)transform C) distract D)disclose78.A)urgent B)casual C) diligent D)solemn79.A)proceed B)process C) prefer D)predict80.A)count B)concentrate C) insist D)depend81.A)but B)or C) for D)so If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell Jeanne Haegele? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident_62_to cut plastics out of her life. The marketing coordinator was concerned about _63_ the chemicals coming out of some common types of plastic might be doing to her body. She was also worried about the damage all the plastic _64_ was doing to the environment. So she _65_ on her bike and rode to the nearest grocery store to see what she could find that didnt _66_ plastic. I went in and _67_ bought anything, Haegele says. She did _68_ some canned food and acarton(纸盒)of milk 69 to discover later that both containers were 70 with plasticresin(树脂). Plastic, she says, just seemed like it was in everything. Shes right. Back in the 1960s, plastic was well _71_ its way to becoming a staple of American life. The U.S. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 2005 27 million tons of which _72_ inlandfills(垃圾填埋场). Our food and water come _73_ in plastic. Its used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the _74_ adaptable substance has its darkside. Environmentalists feel worried about the petroleum needed to make it. Parents worry about thepossibility of _75_ chemicals making their wayfrom 76 plastic into childrens bloodstreams.Which means Haegele isnt the only person tryingto cut plastic out of her life she isnt _77_ theonly one blogging about this kind of _78_. But those whove tried know its _79_ from easy to goplastic-free. These things seem to be so common_80_ it is practically impossible to avoid cominginto _81_ with them, says Frederick vom Saal, abiologist at the University of Missouri.62. A) resolved B) recoveredC) removedD) retreated63. A) when B) whatC) whoD) why64. A) essence B) unitC) crustD) rubbish65. A) hinged B) hoppedC) stretchedD) dipped66. A) include B) induceC) composeD) consist67. A) slightly B) nearlyC) roughlyD) barely68. A) pursue B) prescribeC) preser