Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 27. Fill in the appropriate word in question 25

Taking piano lessons and solving math puzzles on a computer significantly improve specific math skills of elementary schoolchildren, according to a new study. The results, (23) _______ were published in the journal Neurological Research, are the latest in a series that links musical training to the development of higher brain functions.

Researchers worked with 135 second-grade students at a school in Los Angeles after (24) _______ a pilot study with 102 students. Children that were given four months of piano training as well as time playing (25) _______ newly designed computer software scored 27 percent higher on math and fraction tests than other children.

Piano instruction is thought to enhance the brain’s “hard wiring” for spatial-temporal reasoning, or the ability to visualize and transform objects in space and time, says Professor Gordon Shaw, who led the study. At the same time, the computer game allows children to solve geometric and math puzzles that boost their ability to (26) _______ shapes in their mind.

The findings are significant (27) _______ a grasp of proportional math and fractions is a prerequisite to math at higher levels, and children who do not master these areas of math cannot understand move advanced math that is critical to high-tech fields.

(Adapted from “Eye on Editing 2” by Joyce S. Cain)

A. at.

B. for.

C. with.

D. of.

Answer 1

Chọn đáp án C

Children that were given four months of piano training as well as time playing with newly designed computer software scored 27 percent higher on math and fraction tests than other children: Những đứa trẻ được cho 4 tháng huấn luyện piano cũng như thời gian chơi piano với phần mềm máy tính được thiết kế mới có điểm số bài thi môn toán và bài thi phân số cao hơn 27% so với các đứa trẻ khác.

Dễ thấy giới từ phù hợp nhất ở đây là “with”.

Vậy chọn đáp án đúng là C.