高级口译0609听力原文汇总合集（5）

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　　高级口译0609听力原文汇总合集（5）

　　Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.

　　Just how music enhances mathematical skills is unknown. It may be by the more general effect of increasing self-esteem, or maybe something neurological happens in the brain, or maybe, psychologist Andrea Halpen from Bucknell University suggests, these children are learning how to learn.

　　Most schools offer music and art classes to give students a well-rounded education. New research indicates those classes may do more for students than just give them an appreciation of arts. (Question 16)According to a study in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Nature, studying music and art can significantly advance a child’s reading skills and especially boost math proficiency. A class of six-year-olds getting a special music lesson, part of a special arts program that researcher Martin Gardiner and his colleagues at the music school in Rhode Island designed for several elementary schools in the state.

　　They started out wanting to see the impact of arts training in some first- and second-grade kids. (Question 17) So, some classrooms had an extra hour of this special arts curriculum incorporated into their normal school week, and other classrooms getting the standard curriculum in the arts, which was pretty standard for Rhode Island and rather representative of the country as a whole. The standard curriculum, say the researchers, gave students music lessons twice a month (Question 18) and art lessons twice a month. The typical music lesson tended to be somewhat passive. Students listened to tapes and concerts and talked about music in class. In contrast, the special arts classes met twice weekly and got students actively involved as a way to teach them the basic building blocks.

　　The kinds of skill that they are learning in these grades are….in music, they’re learning to sing together properly, sing together songs; and, in the visual arts, they’re learning to draw shapes and deal with colors and forms, and so forth.

　　A very interactive, experiential approach that took advantage of children’s natural inclination to master enjoyable tasks and build upon sequential skills. And at the end of seven months, (Question 19) all the kids in the school took standardized tests, and we looked not only at how these teachers rated the kids on attitude and so forth, but also how the kids scored on their tests.

　　And here’s what the researchers found. First of all, those kids who’d entered the first grade toward the bottom of the class in reading and then received the special arts program for the year had now caught up to the average in reading. (Question 20)

　　And that in itself is wonderful. But in addition, they were now statistically ahead in learning math. Dramatically ahead in math, compared to the kids who had received the special arts classes throughout the year. The researchers found also that the kids who continued their special arts classes for a second year continued to improve in math. (Question 20)

　　Question 16: What can music and arts education do according to a recent study?

　　Question 17: What was the purpose of the special arts program in Rhode Island?

　　Question 18: How often did the standard curriculum give the students music class?

　　Question 19: How long did the special music arts program last?

　　Question 20: What did the researchers check at the end of the test period?

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