II. CLOZE

Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)

Babies love a beat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants. The research showed babies respond to the rhythm of   16  , and find it more interesting than speech. The findings, based   17  a study of 120 infants between five months and two years old, suggest that humans may be born with a   18  to move rhythmically in response to music. Researchers find that it is the beat   19  other features of the music, such as the melody,   20   produces the response in infants. They   21   found that the better the children’s movements were able to coincide with the music, the more they smiled.

To test babies’ reaction to music, the researchers   22   recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, and videotaped the   23   In addition, they recruited professional ballet dancers to analyze how well the babies   24  their movements to the music. During the experiments, each baby was sitting on a parent’s lap. The adults had   25   on to make sure they couldn’t hear the music, and they were   26   not to move. The researchers found the babies moved their arms, hands, legs, feet and heads in response to the music,   27   than to speech.

 It   28  to be understood why humans have developed this   29   reaction. One possibility is that it was a target of natural selection for music or that it has evolved for   30  function that just happens to be relevant to music processing. Though the ability appears to be innate in humans, the researchers aren’t sure why it evolved.

16. A. voice               B. movement           C. music                 D. dance

17. A. in                    B. on                       C. at                       D. to

18. A. custom            B. character             C. tendency             D. behaviour

19. A. rather than        B. other than            C. more than            D. less than

20. A. what                B. which                 C. it                        D. that

21. A. still                  B. also                     C. just                     D. only

22. A. composed        B. performed           C. played                 D. set

23. A. consequences   B. results                 C. information          D. data

24. A. suited               B. directed               C. balanced              D. matched

25. A. headphones      B. masks                 C. microphones        D. glasses

26. A. controlled         B. instructed            C. limited                 D. confined

27. A. much more       B. much fewer         C. no more              D. no less

28. A. keeps               B. leaves                  C. stays                   D. remains

29. A. certain             B. particular             C. unusual               D. characteristic

30. A. some other       B. the other              C. one another         D. each other