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30.What does the underlined phrase"letting up"in paragraph 4 probably mean?A.Stopping.B.Dashing down.C.Going up.D.Widening.31.What might the author agree with?A.Repetition makes up for rigidity.B.It matters to focus on what we can't.C.Changes promote life satisfaction.D.It makes sense to embrace changes.DThere's a song in your head.You keep hearing it repeatedly.You can't make it stop,and it'sdriving you crazy!Has this happened to you?Maybe you have suffered from an earworm,which isa memory of a song.Earworms are common.A study showed that 90 percent of people experience them.Why dowe get earworms?According to neurologist Oliver Sacks,music affects us whether we pay attentionto it or not.We're surrounded by music all the time in our everyday lives.Sacks wonders if there isa higher incidence of earworms today because of all this music in our environment.Research on the primary auditory cortex(听觉皮层)supports Sack's ideas.The auditorycortex is the part of the brain that processes sound.It's a short-term storage system for smallamounts of auditory information.Some of this auditory information is forgotten,and some of it goesinto long-term memory.However,songs appear to stay in the auditory cortex for a long time.James Kellaris,a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati,thinks that only certaintypes of songs become earworms.These songs are repetitive,simple,and incongruous-somethingunexpected such as uneven rhythm.Your brain pays a lot of attention to a song like this,Kellarissays.Because it is repetitive and unusual,it stays longer in the auditory cortex.At that point,Kellaris believes,it becomes an annoying earworm.Advertisers often use jingles-short songs that are easy to remember to promote sales.Advertisers want jingles to stick in people's minds to keep them thinking about their products.Itseems that advertisers have learned what Kellaris has found out in his research.Is there any way to get rid of an earworm?Here are some tips Kellaris collected:replacethe earworm song with another song,try to distract yourself by doing an intense activity suchas exercising,or tell someone about your earworm.What if none of these strategies work?Thenperhaps you should just sit back and try to enjoy the music in your head!32.How does the author lead to the topic?A.By giving a definition.B.By describing a phenomenon.C.By drawing a conclusion.D.By clarifying a question.33.What does the author want to explain by mentioning"auditory cortex"?A.The mechanism of earworms.B.The lasting effect of memory.C.The necessity of the research.D.The significance of music.乌鲁木齐地区2024年高三年级第一次质量监测英语试卷（问卷)第6页（共10页)