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Music has been part of every known human society. It has a significant effect on the human brain, both in terms of its development and the reactions it can bring about in people. Music is essentially a form of language that allows people to communicate with each other and share experiences.

Music and Mood

Music can strengthen and influence mood and emotions. A Penn State study carried showed that people's emotions became more positive after they listened to music. People often use music deliberately to create or maintain a particular mood; examples include listening to positive music before a night out or playing a lullaby to comfort a child.

Music and Learning

Music can help support learning in adults and children. It can help make both sides of the brain active; any activity that does so can improve the brain's processing ability. Listening to music while reviewing for a test can increase memory in students, as evidenced by higher test scores. Children who receive music education seem to have better language skills, social skills and so on. Music seems to help the brain develop and grow neural(神經系統的) connections that would not otherwise be there, thus increasing its capacity.

Music as Illness Treatment

Because music can have such a meaningful effect on the mind and moods, it serve as valuable treatment. Music treatment is a recognized profession with methods backed up by clinical studies. It can improve brain function in patients with brain problems of the old age such as Alzheimer's （痴呆病）and can serve to help children whose brain development has been harmed in some way. Other possible uses include helping mental health patients improve their emotional and social functioning, as well as comforting those who have experienced the diseases. In all these cases, music helps the brain function better.

9. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Can music help treat diseases?

B. Can music help you stay relaxed?

C. Ways of getting higher test scores.

D. How does music affect your mood and mind?

10. Why can students get higher test scores by listening to music while preparing for a test?

A. Because listening to music can help them have better

B. Because listening to music can help them acquire better social skills.

C. Because listening to music can help them develop their language ability.

D. Because listening to music can help them enhance the ability to remember.

11. Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase “backed up” in the last paragraph?

A. copied. B. blocked. C. supported. D. moved backwards.