Does listening to music make you feel relaxed? Could it even go further and help cure serious diseases? The Synec Project，a new Company based in Boston, is trying to find out if this is possible. lts mission is to figure out if music can truly be used as medicine.
Current research into how music affects the body and brain shows that there is at least some influence. For instance, research published in 2005 by Theresa Lesiuk at the University of Windsor in Canada found that music helped to improve the quality and timeliness of office work, as well as ameliorate positive attitudes while people were working. A review in 2012by Costas Karageorghis, a sport psychologist at Brunel University in London found there was“evidence to suggest that carefully selected music can give physical and psychological benefits during high-intensity exercise”. The research by Jessica Grahn，an assistant professor at the University of Westerm Ontario, has shown that even when people aren't tapping their foot or dancing to music, FMRI scans show that“quite a lot" of the brain is responding. A song's rhythm, Grahn said, drives responses in the brain's movement areas, and these responses tend to be stronger with music that has a clear beat that people can follow.“One thing that people have observed is that if you play Parkinson's patients music that has a steady beat.. these patients seem to have improvements in their walking," she added.
Crahn is realistic but excited.“I think there's a lot of hype (妙作) about what music can do," she said.“I don' think if it’s a sort of cure-all or replacement for a lot of things, but I certainly think it has potential. And the great thing about it is there are generally no bad side effects, it gives patients a sense of control over their treatment, and that's really important.
9 .What's the best title for the passage?
A. Music Could Be a Cure? B. The Contributions of Sync Project
C. Music means a lot to researchers? D. The Medical Promotion by Music
10. How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?
A. By giving examples. B. By making comparisons.
C. By giving instructions. D. By analyzing cause and effect.
11. What does the underlined word“ameliorate" in Paragraph2 probably mean?
A. Value. B. Lack. C. Improve. D. Suspect.
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