Reading Practice Test # 3.12 Passage 3

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Questions 27–31

Complete the summary below.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 27-31

The Montreal Study

Participants, who were recruited for the study through advertisements, had their brain activity monitored while listening to their favourite music. It was noted that the music stimulated the brain’s neurons to release a substance called 27…………………………. in two of the parts of the brain which are associated with feeling 28…………………………..

Researchers also observed that the neurons in the area of the brain called the 29……………………………. were particularly active just before the participants’ favorite moments in the music – the period known as the 30…………………………. Activity in this part of the brain is associated with the expectation of ‘reward’ stimuli such as 31………………………….

Q 27.

Q 28.

Q 29.

Q 30.

Q 31.

Questions 32–36

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

32   What point does the writer emphasise in the first paragraph?

 

33   what view of the Montreal study does the writer express in the second paragraph?

34   What does the writer find interesting about the results of the Montreal study?

35   Why does the writer refer to Meyer’s work on music and emotion?

36   According to Leonard Meyer, what causes the listener’s emotional response to music?

Questions 37–40

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-F, below.

A   our response to music depends on our initial emotional state.

B   neuron activity decreases if outcomes become predictable.

C   emotive music can bring to mind actual pictures and events.

D   experiences in our past can influence our emotional reaction to music.

E   emotive music delays giving listeners what they expect to hear.

F   neuron activity increases prior to key points in a musical piece.

37   The Montreal researchers discovered that

38   Many studies have demonstrated that

39   Meyer’s analysis of Beethoven’s music shows that

40   Earlier theories of music suggested that

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