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MUSIC TO HELP YOUR BRAIN

A. Pupils were put into groups to listen to different things
B. Pupils doing best had probably liked what they had heard.
C. Those listening to pop music did best on the test.
D. It was thought that difficult music made the brain work better.
E. The experiment suggests that the children did not listen to Mozart.
F. Listening to Mozart seemed to improve mental ability.
G. The experiment was carried out in all parts of Britain
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 Listening to pop music may make you cleverer, according to a Megalab experiment in which 11,000 children in 250 schools across Britain took part.

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The idea was put forward as a scientific study by Dr Sue Hallam of the Institute of Education, London, to follow up work in California which suggested that listening to music by Mozart for ten minutes had a direct effect on people’s ability to work out problems.

2

The Megalab experiment took place at eleven o’clock one Thursday morning. School children were split at random into three separate groups: one listening to Mozart, one to a pop group and one to a conversation in which Dr Hallam discussed Megalab.

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 The children were the given problem-solving tasks. The group which had listened to the discussion scored 52 per cent, those who had listened to Mozart also scored 52 per cent, but those who had listened to pop group scored 56 per cent. Dr Hallam said the result is interesting and ‘approaching significance’.

4

She thought that the reason was not due to the ‘Mozart effect’ but because the mood of the children had changed, so they were more aroused and tried harder. ‘They were probably enjoying it and so they were well motivated,’ she said. ‘The others were probably uninterested or not particularly inspired by Mozart or by the discussion.’

5

Dr Frances Rauscher, of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Berkeley, California, had suggested that students would do better after listening to Mozart because his music is complex and stimulates particular activity in the brain.

Answer 1

 Mình nghĩ là thế này 

1. F
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. D