Question

【題目】A research study has looked into what happens inside your brain while you read and listen to music. You know that thrill(興 奮 )you get when listening to your favorite music?That exciting feeling when you hear your favorite songs?According to a recent study，it seems the same thing can happen while you are reading，but not with every kind of text. This opens up interesting questions around how music，reading and emotions are connected in the brain.

The study

“ We decided we would do a comparison between four or five different kinds of texts to see how the brain reacted，”explains Adam Zeman，a scientist. “ The participants (參 與 者 )lay in an MRI scanner reading the texts，and then we compared brain activity for those five texts.”The texts ranged (涉 及 )from deadly boring ones to highly exciting ones，including the Highway Code，parts from novels，and poems.

So what happened in the participants brains while they were reading?

Emotional reaction

As the researchers observed，participants found some texts more emotional than others. When reading these emotional texts，there was higher activity in brain areas related to pleasure and reward—the same areas related to the thrill we get when we listen to music. As Zeman says，“ it perfectly shows that the emotional reaction to literature(文 學(xué) )and to music has quite a bit in common. So it doesn't seem to matter whether you are listening or reading if you get a thrill. That was one quite strong finding.”

Introspection(內(nèi) 省 )

There were more interesting findings. Reading poetry is often considered an activity that requires us to use the brain，but did the study find any truth of this?When the participants were reading poems，the team found there was more activity in a particular group of brain areas called the Default Network. “ These areas seem to be related to things we do with our minds when we are resting，like thinking about what's happened to us recently，thinking about what's going to happen in the near future，about other people，and that network seems to be more strongly related to poetry than with other texts，”explains Zeman. This connection between poetry and introspection could be the subject of further research.

Conclusions

The study shows that the different texts activate different areas of our brains when we read. Zeman says，“ the study did support what we thought:reaction to literature was going to be a bit like the one to music in terms of emotion. We felt that we ended up with a great deal of unanswered questions which we hope somebody will continue to ask.”

【1】What did the research try to find out?

A. How music helps us read different kinds of texts.

B. What kind of texts most people like while listening to music.

C. Why reading different texts causes different reactions in emotion.

D. Whether reading can cause similar emotional reaction like music does.

【2】What did the participants do in the study?

A. They listened to music. B. They read different texts.

C. They answered many questions. D. They compared brain activities.

【3】What can we learn from the study?

A. The emotional texts work better for the research.

B. Poetry reading can activate the Default Network.

C. Music helps to bring pleasure and reward.

D. People think about the past when resting.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】B

【解析】

本文主要講述關(guān)于你在閱讀和聽音樂時(shí)腦內(nèi)發(fā)生的事情的一項(xiàng)研究調(diào)查。你知道聽到你最喜歡的音樂時(shí)你會(huì)得到的興奮的感覺，同樣讀書也會(huì)發(fā)生同樣的事情。音樂，閱讀和情感如何在大腦中相互聯(lián)系，做了實(shí)驗(yàn)，最后得出結(jié)論：當(dāng)我們閱讀時(shí)，不同類型的文章會(huì)激活我們大腦的不同區(qū)域。澤曼說，“這項(xiàng)研究確實(shí)支持了我們的想法：對(duì)文學(xué)的反應(yīng)有點(diǎn)像音樂對(duì)情感的反應(yīng)。我們覺得，我們最終得到了許多懸而未決的，我們希望有人會(huì)繼續(xù)問的問題。”

【1】題意：這項(xiàng)研究試圖找出什么？A. How music helps us read different kinds of texts. 音樂如何幫助我們閱讀不同體裁的文章；B. What kind of texts most people like while listening to music. 聽音樂時(shí)大多數(shù)人喜歡什么樣的文章；C. Why reading different texts causes different reactions in emotion. 為什么閱讀不同的文章會(huì)引起情感上的不同反應(yīng)。D. Whether reading can cause similar emotional reaction like music does. 閱讀是否會(huì)引起類似音樂的情緒反應(yīng)。根據(jù)第一段第一句A research study has looked into what happens inside your brain while you read and listen to music.（一項(xiàng)調(diào)查研究調(diào)查了你在閱讀和聽音樂時(shí)大腦內(nèi)部發(fā)生的事情。）可知研究的目的是“閱讀是否會(huì)引起類似音樂的情緒反應(yīng)�！边xD。

【2】題意：參與者在研究中做了什么？A. They listened to music. 他們聽音樂；B. They read different texts. 他們讀不同的文章；C. They answered many questions. 他們回答了許多問題；

D. They compared brain activities. 他們比較了大腦活動(dòng)。根據(jù)實(shí)驗(yàn)the study的第一句We decided we would do a comparison between four or five different kinds of texts to see how

the brain reacted可知參與者讀不同的文章；選B。

【3】題意：我們可以從這項(xiàng)研究中了解到什么？A. The emotional texts work better for the research. 情感文本對(duì)研究更有效；B. Poetry reading can activate the Default Network. 詩歌朗讀可以激活默認(rèn)網(wǎng)絡(luò)；C. Music helps to bring pleasure and reward. 音樂有助于帶來快樂和回報(bào)；D. People think about the past when resting. 人們?cè)谛菹⒌臅r(shí)候思考過去。根據(jù)第3句When the participants were reading poems，the team found there was more activity in a particular group of brain areas called the Default Network.（與者閱讀詩歌時(shí)，研究小組發(fā)現(xiàn)在特定的大腦區(qū)域稱為默認(rèn)網(wǎng)絡(luò)中有更多的活動(dòng)。）可知選B。