1、1Nothing is worth living for without music.Nietzsche没有音乐，生命是没有价值的。尼采2Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.Walter Haddon音乐是治疗心灵苦恼的良药。沃尔特哈登3Without the music education in my childhood，I would succeed in nothing.Albert Einstein没有早期音乐教育，我将一事无成。阿尔伯特爱因斯坦4Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to
2、soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.William Congreve音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。威廉姆康格里夫5Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven音乐是比一切智慧、一切哲学更高的启示。路德维希凡贝多芬The Sound of MusicThe hills are alive with the sound of music，with songs they have sung for a thousand yea
3、rs.The hills fill my heart with the sound of music，my heart wants to sing every song it hears.My heart wants to beat like the wings of thebirds that rise from the lake to the trees.My heart wants to sigh like a chime that fliesfrom a church on a breeze.To laugh like a brook when it trips and fallsov
4、er stones on its way，to sing through thenight like a lark who is learning to pray.I go to the hills when my heart is lonely.I know I will hear what Ive heard before.My heart will be blessed with the sound of music.And Ill sing once more.音乐之声音乐声回荡在群山之间，传唱千年的歌声在飘荡。山峦唤起我心中的音乐，我的心想唱出它听到的每首歌。我的心想和着鸟儿振翅的节
5、拍，飞过湖面，飞过树林。我的心想与钟声齐轻叹，乘风飞出教堂。如淙淙溪流般欢笑，一路在石子上轻盈跳跃，如彻夜高歌学习祈祷的云雀。心灵孤寂的时候我就来到群山中。我知道我会听到从前听过的声音。音乐声洗涤我的心灵。我将会再一次歌唱。A large number of people enjoy listening to various types of music while they paint，write，or draw.Many believe that music helps creativity.However，an international study conducted by Engli
6、sh and Swedish researchers is challenging that opinion.Psychologists from Lancaster University，The University of Gvle，and The University of Central Lancashire say that their findings show music actually blocks creativity.To come to their conclusions(结论)，researchers had participants (参与者) complete ve
7、rbal (文字的)problems designed to inspire creativity while sitting in a quiet room，and then again while music played in the background.They found that background music “badly affected” the participants ability to complete tasks related to verbal creativity.The tasks were simple word games.For example，p
8、articipants were given three words，such as dress，dial，and flower.Then，they were asked to find a single word related to all three that could be combined to form a common phrase or word.The single word，in this case，would be “sun” (sundress，sunflower，etc)Participants completed the tasks in either a qui
9、et room，or while exposed to three different types of music；music with unfamiliar words，instrumental music，or music with familiar words.“We found strong evidence of damaged performance when playing background music in comparison to quiet background conditions，” says coauthor Dr.Neil McLatchie of Lanc
10、aster University.To conclude，the findings challenge the popular view that music encourages creativity，and instead prove that music consistently(持续地)affects creative performance in dealing with problems.探索发现1Find out the main idea of the passage.Music affects creativity while working.2Find out what the underlined word“block” in Paragraph 2 means.It means “prevent”3Find out how the researchers came to their conclusions.By comparison.