共用题干
Music Used as a Healing Therapy
1 .Music has long been used to treat patients suffering from different problems.In 400 BC,its healing properties were documented by the ancient Greeks. More recently,in both world wars in the last century, medical workers used music therapy（疗法）with people suf-fering from trauma（外伤）.Currently, it is used as a treatment for many diseases, such as cancer,and it has also been used with patients with long-term pain and learning disabilities.
2 .There is growing evidence that music can caused physical changes to the body which can im-prove our health. In the Welcome Trust study,which took place over three years at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London,patients were asked to listen to musical perform-ances. As a result,it was found that stress levels were significantly reduced,recovery times were improved,and fewer drugs were needed.
3. These very positive results are partly due to general well-being（良好的健康状况）.It is already accepted that when people feel happy and have a positive approach to life,they are more likely to feel better and recover from disease quickly. Music increases this feeling of joy and adds to the recovery process.
4 .However,not all these benefits can be attributed to an increase in general well-being. Music has other effects which have not yet been understood. According to Professor Robert-son,a scientist and musician,some effects of music are mysterious and are,therefore,being investigated further. It has been suggested that the sounds and rhythms of music help stimu-late the brain and send electrical messages to the muscles.
5 .Science,however,demands facts and hard evidence. Many in the medical profession have not yet recognized the healing benefits of music,since reports have been based mainly on various stories of evidence. These new studies could provide proof to doctors that music is a suitable treatment for many conditions. One day doctors may even “prescribe”（开处方） music,but that could be a long time in the future.
Paragraph 4______
A: Potential Dangers of Music Therapy
B: Increase in General WellBeing
C: History of Music Therapy
D: Other Mysterious Effects of Music
E: Positive Physical Changes Caused by Music
F: Music and Your Body

相关问题推荐

• 共用题干
  Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor
  The leading cause of lung cancer among women in the city was cooking oil fumes while men are more likely to develop the disease from smoking,said medical experts after a five-year research study.
  Doctors announced the results yesterday with analysis on some new tendencies in lung cancer. They said patients are younger,especially women.
  According to the Shanghai Tumor research Institute,more local residents die of lung cancer in the city than anything else.Following breast cancer,it has the second-highest incidence rate.
  “An unhealthy lifestyle is a very important reason for lung cancer,”said Dr He Yumin from Shanghai Minshen Traditional Chinese Medicine Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment Center.
  He followed 2,276 lung cancer patients for five years.Among them,1,483 were male.
  Smoking causes 70 percent of cases among men while only 18 percent of female patients developed cancer from smoking or inhaling second-hand smoke,according to the report.
  However,more than 60 percent of women with the disease had long term,close contact with strong oil fumes from cooking and complained about irritated eyes and throat.
  About 32 percent of women fried foods in boiling oil in unventilated kitchens and about 25 percent of women's bedrooms were adjacent to the kitchen.
  However,local women were surprised to learn cooking oil fumes could lead to cancer.
  Some claimed they may change food preparation methods.
  “Unless my family and I don't eat at home every day,I must stay in the kitchen to cook,”said Xu Li,a 45-year-old local woman. “I know the fumes are bad for the skin,but it is the first time I heard that it can result in lung cancer. I have already started frying less.”
  Doctors said women's lung cancer had few links to personal health and physical condition,but was closely related to family cancer history,unhealthy dietary habits and weak immune systems.
  Other experts agreed with him.
  “Smoking is by far the biggest cause of lung cancer for men,”said Dr Tan Binyong, honorary president of the Respiratory Disease Institute at Fudan University's Medical College.“It's true that second-hand smoke and cooking fumes are the main causes among women.”
  His research also warned people not to stand near of stalls selling fried foods due to the poor quality of oils used.
  The chance of catching lung cancer is three times higher if exposed to the fume for a long time,6 experts said.
  What a new tendency in lung cancer is concluded by the researchers?
  A: Men are more likely to develop lung cancer than women.
  B: Women are more likely to develop lung cancer than men.
  C: Patients with lung cancer become older,especially males.
  D: Patients with lung cancer become younger,especially females.

  查看答案
• 共用题干
  One useful anti-cancer drug can effectively erase the whorls（箩状指纹）and other characteristic marks that give people their distinctive fingerprints.Losing_________(51)could become troublesome. A case released online in a letter by Annals of Oncology（《肿瘤学年报》）indicates how big a_________(52)of losing fingerprints is.
  Eng-Huat Tan,a Singapore-based medical doctor describes a 62-year old man who has used capecitabine（卡培他滨，一种化疗药物）to _________( 53 ) his nasopharyngeal（鼻炎的）cancer.
  After three years on the_________(54),the patient decided to visit U.S.relatives last December. But he was stopped by U.S. customs officials__________(55)4 hours after entering the country when those officials couldn't get fingerprints from the man. There were no distinctive swirly（旋涡状的）_________(56)appearing from his index finger.
  U.S.customs has been fingerprinting incoming foreign visitors for years,Tan says.Their index fingers are _________(57)and screened against digital files of the fingerprints of bad guys一terrorists and potential criminals that our federal guardians have been tasked with keeping out of the coun-try. Unfortunately,for the Singaporean traveler,one potential_________(58)effect of his drug treatment is a smoothing of the tissue on the finger pads.__________(59),no fingerprints.
  "It is uncertain when fingerprint loss will__________(60)to take place in patients who are taking capecitabine,"Tan points out. So he cautions any physicians who________(61)the drug to provide their patients with a doctor's note pointing out that their medicine may cause fingerprints to disappear.
  Eventually,the Singapore traveler made it into the United States.I guess the name on his passport didn't raise any red flags.But he is also now got the explanatory doctor's note一and won't leave home _________(62)it.
  By the way,maybe the Food and Drug Administration,__________(63)approved use of the drug 11 years ago,should consider_________(64)its list of side effects associated with this medicine.The current list does note that patients may experience vomiting,stomach pain and some other side effects.But no where________(65)it mention the potential for loss of fingerprints.
  _________(53)
  A:treat
  B:cut
  C:find
  D:smooth

  查看答案
• 共用题干
  Scientists Develop Ways of Detecting Heart Attack
  German researchers have___1___a new generation of defibrillators and earlywarning software aimed at offering heart patients greater protection___2___sudden death from cardiac arrest.
  In Germany alone around 100,000 people die annually as a result of cardiac arrest and many of these cases___3___by disruption to the heart's rhythm. Those most at risk are pa- tients who have___4___suffered a heart attack,and for years the use of defibrillators has proved useful in diagnosing___ 5___ disruptions to heart rhythms and correcting them automat-ically by intervening within seconds. These devices___6___ a range of functions,such as that of pacemaker.
  Heart specialists at Freiburg's University Clinic have now achieved a breakthrough with an implanted defibrillator ___7___of generating a six-channel electrocardiogram(ECG)within the body. This integrated system allows early diagnosis of___8___blood-flow problems and a pending heart attack. It will be implanted in patients for the first time this year. Meanwhile, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Mathematics in Kaiserslautern have developed new computer software that renders the evaluation of ECG data___9___.
  The overwhelming___10___of patients at risk will not have an implanted defibrillator and must for this reason undergo regular ECGs.“Many of the current programs only ___11___ into account a linear correlation of the data. We are,however,making use___12___ a non-linear process that reveals the chaotic patterns of heart beats as an open and complex system,”
  Hagen Knaf says,“___ 13___ changes in the heart beats over time can be monitored and indi- vidual variations in patients taken into account.”An old study of ECG data,based___14___ 600 patients who had suffered a subsequent heart attack,enabled the researchers to compare risks and to show___15___the new software evaluates the data considerably better.
  7._________
  A: capable
  B: able
  C: skillful
  D: skilled

  查看答案
• 共用题干
  As many as 20% of all children in the United States suffer from some form of the learning disorder called dyslexia.
  Experts on dyslexia say that the problem is not a disease.They say that persons with dyslexia use information in a different way.One of the world's great thinkers and scientists,Albert Einstein was dyslexic.Einstein said that he never thought in words the way that most people do.He said that he thought in pictures instead.The American inventor Thomas Edison was also dyslexic.Dyslexia first was recognized in Europe and the United States more than 80 years ago.Many years passed before doctors discovered that persons with the disorder were not mentally slow or disabled.The doctors found that the brains of persons with dyslexia are different.In most people,the left side of the brain一 the part that controls language is larger than the right side.In persons with dyslexia,the right side of the brain is bigger. Doctors are not sure what causes this difference.However,research has shown that dyslexia is more common in males than in females,and it is found more often in persons who are left handed.No one knows the cause of dyslexia,but some scientists believe that it may result from chemical changes in a baby's body long before it is born.They are trying to find ways to teach persons with dyslexia. Dyslexic persons think differently and need special kinds of teaching help.After they have solved their problems with language,they often show themselves to be especially intelligent or creative.
  Many great thinkers and scientists in the world are dyslexic.
  A:Right
  B: Wrong
  C:Not mentioned

  查看答案
• 共用题干
  Tiny Invaders
  The human body is truly amazing. It allows us to sense the world around us,to do work and have fun,
  and to move from place to place.In fact,the human body does its work so well that most people don't think
  about it very much-until they get sick.
  The germs（致病菌）that make people sick are everywhere. You can ' t see them , but they ' re there.
  They're sitting on your desk.They're hiding on your computer's keyboard.They're even in the air that you
  are breathing. There are two types of germs : viruses and bacteria（细菌）.Viruses are germs that can only
  live inside animals or plants. Viruses cause illnesses such as flu and measles（麻疹）.Bacteria are tiny
  creatures.Some bacteria are good.They can help your stomach break down food.Other bacteria aren't so
  good. They can make you sick. Bacteria can cause sore throats（喉痛）and ear infections.
  How can you stop these tiny invaders from making you sick?Your skin is the first defense against
  germs.You can prevent some illnesses simply by washing,with soap and water. But germs can still enter the
  body through small cuts in the skin or through the mouth,eyes,and nose.
  Once germs are inside your body , your immune（免疫的）system tries to protect you. It looks for and
  destroys germs.How does it do that?Special cells patrol your body.Some of these cells actually eat germs!
  Other cells make antibodies.An antibody sticks to a germ.There is a different antibody for each kind of
  germ.Some antibodies keep germs from making you sick.Others help your body find and kill germs.After a
  germ is destroyed,the antibodies stay in your body.They protect you if the same kind of germ comes back.
  That way you will not get the same illness twice.
  You can keep your body healthy by eating a nutritious（有营养的）diet to make your immune systerm
  strong. You can also help your immune system fight germs by getting vaccinated（接种）.Vaccines are
  medicines.They contain germs that have been killed or weakened.The dead germs can't make you sick.
  Instead,they cause your body to make antibodies.If the same germ ever shows up again,then your
  antibodies attack it.
  Vaccines can make you sick.
  A:Right
  B:Wrong
  C:Not mentioned

  查看答案