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Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be c
Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be c
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2024-06-10
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Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be connected, but people who have researched the subject—and studied the brain—say that riley are. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an-engineer, mathematician or scientist and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical instrument. The children themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.
Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same patterns. However, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics, science and engineering.
If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related, how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has happened with a number of well-known black musicians.
It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music, piano rather than violin, blues rather than opera. This is readily understandable, given that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the leisure for long years of formal study in music.
Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular music. They have played a disproportionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional and modern. A long string of names comes to mind—Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker... and so on.
None of this presupposes any special innate (先天的) ability of blacks in music. On the contrary, it is perfectly consisted with blacks having no more such inborn ability than anyone else, but being limited to being able to express such ability in narrower channels than others who have had the money, the time and the formal education to spread out over a wider ranger of music, as well as into mathematics, science and engineering. [br] What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
选项
A、Mathematical ability and musical ability are connected.
B、Mathematical ability has more to do with the brain than musical ability.
C、More people are good at music than math.
D、More research should be done into the relationship between mathematical ability and musical ability.
答案
A
解析
主旨大意题。A“数学能力和音乐能力之间是有联系的”,根据文中第一段的第一句可知此句是正确的。B“数学能力与大脑的联系比音乐与大脑的联系更紧密”是对第一段第一句后半部分的曲解;C“擅长音乐的人比擅长数学的人多”是对第一段第二句的曲解:D“关于数学和音乐的能力的关系有待进一步的调查研究”在第一段中根本没有提到。该段第一句前半部分说明两者似乎没有什么关系,后半部分用but引出了作者的观点,that they are后面省略了connected一词,故选A。
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