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unit 9 boosting brain power throught the arts

exercise
1) match  the boldfaced words in the sentences  with a similar  expression  from the list 
on page 209 .write  the correponding  letter  in the blank.
____G_____ 1) Scientists are advancing slowly toward an understanding of brain development in children.
____M_____ 2) The students´intensive preparation in reading and vocabulary helps boost their test scores.
____C____ 3) The university applied the new rules to the student body as a whole, not just to the first-year students.
____F_____ 4) After the accident, he fell behind in piano studies and never caught up to the level of the other children in his group.
____K_____ 5) Many parents hope that their musical training has primed their children´s brain circuitry to excel on mathematics exams.
____J____ 6) The parents of the youngs cellist want to buy the best instrument available, regardless of the price.
____E_____ 7) A painter´s work in progress often reveals more about the creative process than the finished painting does.
____H____ 8) Playing piano did more for the young woman´s self-esteem than getting good grades in school.
____B_____ 9) The student insisted that the wrong notes had nothing to do with lack of practice. The piece had sounded much better at home.
____A_____ 10) The music and publishing industries reaped benefits form the media´s overblown attention to the ¨Mozart Effect¨.
_____I____ 11) A stanford university study found that musical training can improve the reading ability of children who have certain reading problems.
_____L____ 12) The stanford study concluded that musical learning and mastery enhances the regions of the brain responsible for responsible for processing sounds.
_____D____ 13) The hallmark of the M.I.N.D. curriculum is the effect of piano keyboard and computer training on standardized math scores. More than 13,000 students in more than 67 schools have seen dramatic increases in test scores.

A. Benefited                                                                 H. Without considering
B. Didn´t involve                                                          I. Concluded from data
C. Entirely                                                                    J. Got advantages
D. Increase                                                                   K. Prepared
E. Progressing                                                              L. Improves
F. Reached                                                                   M. Outstanding feature.
G. Unfinished product

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