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TEST 1 - Music: Language We All Speak The passage has seven paragraphs A-E. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. List of headings
i Communication in music with animals
ii New discoveries on animal music
iii Music and language contrasted
iv Current research on music
v Music is beneficial for infants.
vi Music transcends cultures.
vii Look back at some of the historical theories
viii Are we genetically designed for music?
Section A Music is one of the human species' relatively few universal abilities. Without formal training, any
individual, from Stone Age tribesman to suburban teenager, has the ability to recognise music and, in some
fashion, to make it. Why this should be so is a mystery. After all, music isn't necessary for getting
through the day, and if it aids in reproduction, it does so only in highly indirect ways. Language, by contrast,
is also everywhere - but for reasons that are more obvious. With language, you and the members of your
tribe can organize a migration across Africa, build reed boats and cross the seas, and communicate at night
even when you can't see each other. Modern culture, in all its technological extravagance, springs directly
from the human talent for manipulating symbols and syntax. Scientists have always been intrigued by the
connection between music and language. Yet over the years, words and melody have acquired a vastly
different status in the lab and the seminar room. While language has long been considered essential to
unlocking the mechanisms of human intelligence, music is generally treated as an evolutionary frippery -
mere "auditory cheesecake", as the Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker puts it.