Just the sounds of the 1960 movie thriller Psycho may be enough to get your heart racing. Even when we may not be aware of it, 1. (hear ) music can affect our bodies as 2. ( good)as our minds. But are the physiological effects of music unique 3. one culture or are they more general?

4. (find )out the answer, researchers enlisted 40 Canadians from downtown Montreal and 40 Pygmies from the Congo rainforest. All the volunteers 5. ( listen) to musical clips from the movies Star Wars and Schindler's List, and to music from Pygmy culture.

As the 6. ( participate)listened, the researchers observed their 7. ( emotion) reactions, as well as changes in heart rate, breathing rate and palm-sweat production. The two groups disagreed about whether a particular musical selection was happy or sad. But they all had similar levels of arousal.

These findings suggest that some aspects of how we react to music are universal, rather 8. strictly cultural.

The study 9. (publish )in the journal Frontiers in Psychology last month. It showed fundamental acoustical（音響的） features seem to be responsible for the similar responses of the Canadians and the Congolese Pygmies.

Does that finding mean that science can help create the world's most 10. (universe )catching pop song?

1.hearing

2.well

3.to

4.To find

5.listened

6.participants

7.emotional

8.than

9.was published

10.universally

【解析】

文章大意：音樂會(huì)讓人們心跳加速，可以影響人們的身體和思想。但是音樂獨(dú)特的生理效應(yīng)是具有文化性還是具有普遍性呢？為了找到答案，研究人員對(duì)此進(jìn)行了實(shí)驗(yàn)，在讓他們聽音樂的同時(shí)觀察參與者的情緒反應(yīng)和心理生理反應(yīng)。

1.hearing 考查非謂語動(dòng)詞。從結(jié)構(gòu)判斷句子缺少主語，用動(dòng)名詞形式，填hearing。

2.well 考查副詞。固定短語as well as “還有“，填well。

3.to考查介詞。固定搭配：be unique to“獨(dú)一無二的，獨(dú)有的”，填to。

4.To find考查非謂語動(dòng)詞。從句意判斷此處是非謂語短語表示目的，用不定式，填To find。

5.listened考查動(dòng)詞時(shí)態(tài)。介紹實(shí)驗(yàn)的情況用一般過去時(shí)，填listened。

6.participants考查名詞。從上文可知一共40個(gè)人參與了實(shí)驗(yàn)，用復(fù)數(shù)名詞participants。

7.emotional考查形容詞。修飾名詞用形容詞，填emotional。

8.than考查連詞。從上文內(nèi)容可知音樂是沒有文化界限的，rather than“而不是”，填than。

9.was published考查被動(dòng)語態(tài)。根據(jù)last month判斷用一般過去時(shí)，從句意可知用被動(dòng)形式，填was published。

10.universally考查副詞。修飾形容詞catching用副詞形式，填universally。

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