Question

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

People have all turned to sad music to make themselves feel better at some point in their lives, 1.why does the music with double or even triple sadness help drag people out of low spirits?

A new study throws light on what's going on inside people’s brains when they match their music to their feelings, and it looks as if sad music can be enjoyable, rather than 2. (simple) depressing. Music of this sort can arouse positive memories in people’s life , thus 3. (lift)their mood.

Psychologist Adrian North from Curtin University in Australia says there exist two groups of possible 4. (explain)  for why people enjoy listening to sad music like this---one from social psychology, and the other from cognitive neuroscience(神经学).

5.terms of social psychology, one idea about this is that people will feel 6. (good) about themselves if they focus on someone who's doing even worse. Everything's going to be okay, because this person is having 7. even worse day than they are.

Another idea from social psychology is that people like to listen to the very music 8. shows their present life circumstances, because this kind of music makes them feel they 9.(understand). With their emotions 10.(share), they definitely get a certain amount of comfort.

So, the conclusion again—sad music does cheer people up, and it works far better than happy music, in most cases.

Answer

1.but

2.simply

3.lifting

4.explanations

5.In

6.better

7.an

8.that

9.are understood

10.shared

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章是关于在心情低落时人们会听音乐的原因，及相关研究。

1.考查连词。句意：有时候人们会听悲伤的音乐来调整心情，但是为什么两倍或三倍于悲伤的音乐能帮助人走出悲伤情绪呢？根据句意，这里需要填表示转折的连词，故填but。

2.考查副词。句意：看起来悲伤的音乐能让人开心，而不是仅仅让人沮丧。修饰形容词depressing用副词形式simply意为“仅仅，只”。故填simply。

3.考查非谓语动词。句意：这样的音乐能激起人们积极的回忆，因而改善心情。句子的谓语是can arouse，所以lift要用非谓语动词形式，doing做结果状语，表示意料之中的结果，故填lifting。

4.考查名词。句意：对于为什么人们喜欢听悲伤的音乐有两种可能的解释。possible是形容词应修饰名词，explain的名词是explanation，有两种可能，所以用复数形式，故填explanations。

5.考固定搭配。句意：就社会心理学而言。in terms of意为就……而言，故填in。

6.考查形容词。句意：一种观点是如果人们注意到别人更糟的情况，他们会对自己感觉稍微好一些。 比较别人的糟糕之后，会自己觉得好一些，所以要填比较级，故填better。

7.考查冠词。句意：因为这个人比起他们来正过着更糟的一天。have a day意为过一天，day有even修饰。even是元音发音开头，故填an.

8.考查定语从句。句意：另一种社会心理学的观点是人们喜欢特定的音乐，这种音乐展现了他们的生活环境。先行词music有the very 修饰时，从句的关系词只能用that，故填that。

9.考谓语动词。句意：因为这种音乐会让他们觉得他们被理解了。because引导的原因状语从句中，they ____9____(understand)是宾语从句，they和understand（理解）之间是被动关系，所以用be done，故填 be understood。

10.考查非谓语动词。句意：情感得到分享之后，他们肯定得到一定程度的安慰。with+宾语+宾语补足语是固定结构，share和逻辑主语emotions 是被动关系，用过去分词，故填shared。