课时作业(四) Unit 2 Section Ⅰ Welcome to the unit & Reading Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Singing has always made Stephen Dunn, 64, of Melbourne, feel joyful. He occasionally sang with bands in the past. When he was diagnosed (诊断) with Parkinson's disease two years ago, he remembered that his father, who'd also had the condition, lost his ability to sing as the disease progressed. Hoping to prevent a similar fate, Stephen joined ParkinSong last year, a local group of Parkinson's patients who meet monthly with a music therapist (治疗专家). They sing together and learn skills to help preserve their singing and speaking voices. “The session involves vocal exercises, breathing exercises, correct posture and that sort of thing，” he says. “Our vocal cords (声带) are like any other muscle in our body. If you don't use it，you lose it.” Helping Parkinson's patients maintain their voices is just one way that music therapy benefits people. A variety of music programmes can improve the mental or physical health of people with numerous diseases and conditions. There are no potential side effects, except, perhaps, getting a song stuck in your head. When therapy is needed to relieve pain or maintain or restore function to the body, different options are available. Physical therapy can be effective, but repetitive exercises may be boring. Music can add an element of fun to therapy. Music is an ideal motivator, because people have deep emotional responses to it on many levels; researchers and music therapists latch onto this to create treatments that can be as effective as, or more effective than, traditional therapies. “Music's so multi-dimentional，” says Jeanette Tamplin, a music therapist and research fellow at the University of Melbourne who's involved with ParkinSong. “It can be very functional. Like you're getting people to walk in time to music. Or it can help them to access emotions and process grief (悲伤) and adjustment through songs.” Doctors recommend music therapy to treat certain conditions, and researchers are working to expand the reach of treatments. 1．What's the purpose of Stephen Dunn's joining ParkinSong A．To train his vocal cord. B．To learn more singing skills. C．To meet people with Parkinson. D．To stop himself losing his ability to sing. 2．What can be inferred from the passage A．Music motivates people to express all their feelings. B．Music has the best effect on restoring the function of body. C．Music therapy brings patients more fun than traditional one. D．Music therapy helps maintain people's voice in a limited way. 3．What will probably be talked about in the following paragraph A.ParkinSong gathers more Parkinson's patients to sing together. B．Music therapy is used in treatments of other conditions. C．Doctors found new therapies for Parkinson's patients. D．The origin of music therapy in Parkinson treatment. B Studying how people move to music is a powerful tool for researchers looking to understand how and why music affect ... ...
