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复杂性——比如句法规则。但研究表明鸟类的叫声也有自己的句法规则，比如日本大山雀就如此。
好词积累 ①complexity n. 复杂性； ②make sense 有意义；讲得通
4．What's the purpose of the first paragraph? A. To summarize the result of the study.
B. To introduce the topic of the passage.
C. To inform the complexity in human language.
D. To tell the difference between humans and animals. 答案与解析 B 写作意图题。根据第一段可知，人类认为自己不同于其他动物主要原因是人类语言的复杂性——比如句法的独特规则，我们会将单词按照特定的语序串在一起组成有意义的语句。由第二段可知，日本科学家Suzuki和同事的研究发现鸟类的叫声也有句法规则。由此推知第一段的写作目的是引出文章的主题：鸟类叫声也存在特殊顺序。故B项正确。
5．What do we know from the study?
A. Humans are special compared with animals.
B. The Japanese tit is different from other birds. C. The ABC-D call is understandable to other birds. D. The D call means keeping a distance from the caller. 答案与解析 C 细节理解题。根据第三段中的“And they found that the order of that call was vital—only ABC-D made sense to the birds.”可知，研究人员发现叫声的顺序至关重要，这些鸟能理解ABC-D的叫声顺序，又结合该段第三句的说明可知当科
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学家将叫声的顺序改为D-ABC时，这些鸟却没反应，由此可知，C项正确。
6．How does David Wheatcroft feel about the study? A. It's difficult to figure out the order.
B. It's interesting to discover the order. C. It's naive to expect the order matters. D. It's surprising to find the order in tits.
答案与解析 D 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中David Wheatcroft的话中“Obviously it matters in human language, the order in which we say things, but it's still somehow shocking when you find it in tits.”可知，David Wheatcroft认为语序在我们人类的语言中具有非同意义，但是令人吃惊的是大山雀的叫声中也是如此。故David Wheatcroft很惊讶地发现大山雀的叫声也存在顺序。故D项正确，其中surprising与文中的shocking呼应。故D项正确。
C (2019·黄山三模) 体裁：说明文 主题语境：文学、艺术和体育 难度：★★★★☆
Musicians are said to have better language skills and scientific studies have backed that up. But it's not clear why that might be the case.
Now, a study of 74 Chinese kindergarteners suggests six months of piano lessons can heighten the brain's response to changes in pitch (声调). And kids who got piano lessons were also better at telling apart two similar-sounding Mandarin (普通话) words, which contained different consonants (辅音), than students who got extra
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reading training or who went through regular kindergarten.
Mandarin is a tonal language—the famous example is the word “ma” which can mean mother or horse depending on its pitch. So might musical_training_translate_better_to_Mandarin_ than _it_would_to_English?
Yeah, it's possible that this influenced the results, said Robert Desimone, a neuroscientist (神经科学家) at the McGovern Institute at MIT. But he says other studies do back up the fact that music lessons benefit language learners, even in countries without tonal languages. “And what our study added on top of that was some idea of the neural basis for those benefits.”
And if you don't own a piano, don't despair. The reading group actually did just as well on many measures as the piano group. “Reading's pretty good actually. We don't mean to disvalue reading instruction.”
More important, he says, was to show piano wasn't actually worse than reading for these skills ... thus perhaps encouraging cash-strapped (资金短缺的) schools to bring their music programs alive.
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文。“钢琴课提高语言技能”。据说音乐家有更好的语言技能，科学研究也证实了这一点。但目前还不清楚为什么会出现这种情况。
好词积累 ①back up 支持； ②tend to do sth. 易于做某事 7．What can we infer from the passage?
A. It's obvious why musicians have better language skills.
B. Musicians tend to be better language learners.
C. Reading works better than a piano for language skills. D. Music lessons are greatly valued in money-tight schools.
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答案与解析 B 推理判断题。根据第一段第一句“Musicians are said to have better language skills and scientific studies have backed that up.”“据说音乐家有更好的语言技能，科学研究也证实了这一点。”可知，音乐家往往是更好的语言学习者。故选B。
8．What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 mean? A. Musical training makes Mandarin easier than English to understand.
B. Musicians translate Mandarin better than English.
C. Musical training contributes better to learning a tonal language than a non-tonal one.
D. Musical lessons help English learners more than Mandarin learners.
答案与解析 C 词义猜测题。根据第四段中“he says other studies do back up the fact that music lessons benefit language learners, even in countries without tonal languages”“他说，其他研究也证实，音乐课有利于语言学习者，即使在没有声调语言的国家也是如此。”由此可知画线部分的意思是“与非调性语言相比，音乐训练更有助于学习调性语言。”故选C。
9．From what column of the magazine might the article be taken?
A. Sports. C. Education.
B. Entertainment. D. Economy.
答案与解析 C 推理判断题。根据最后一段“More important, he says, was to show piano wasn't actually worse than reading for these skills... thus perhaps encouraging cash-strapped
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