2018 英语专四听力真题、听力原文及答案2018 年英语专四听力真题 2018 英语专四听力原文DICTATIONEmotional Reaction to Music音乐的情绪反应No matter who you are, where you live, or what your cultural backgroundis, people get some pleasure from listening to their favorite music. However,some people are simply not capable of enjoying music. This is not becausethey can't experience pleasure at all. They don't have trouble hearing musicproperly, either. Instead, they're just indifferent to music. Researchers haveconducted studies to find out why some people have no emotional reaction tomusic. However, despite their efforts, the mystery remains.无论是何身份,住处,或者文化背景,人们听到喜欢的音乐都会心情舒畅。然而,有些人就是没办法欣赏音乐。这并不是因为他们完全不能体会快乐,也不是因为不能听音乐。而是他们对音乐不敏感。研究者们做了很多研究,想要探究为什么有些人对音乐不能产生情感上的反应。然而,无论他们做多少工作,还是解不开谜团。SECTION A TalkThe Linguistic Gift of Babies婴儿的语言天赋Good morning, everyone. In today's lecture, I'm going to talk aboutsomething you can't see. That is, what's going on in the little brain of a baby.大家早上好。在今天的课上,我要讲一些你们看不到的东西。也就是:婴儿的大脑里是如何运转的。For example, how babies learn a language.例如,婴儿如何学习一门语言。It is always a question people show great interest in.这是一个大家很感兴趣的问题。Babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's asystematic decline.婴儿和七岁之前的儿童都是天才,七岁后就会出现系统性的衰退。Work in my lab is focused on the first critical period in development, andthat is the period in which babies try to master which sounds are used in theirlanguage.我的实验室里工作的重点就是发育的第一个关键时期,在这个关键时期,婴儿试图掌握在他们的语言中用到的音。We think, by studying how the sounds ...