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56. 57. 58. 59. 60. b. Questions 61-70: Read and circle the best option (A, B, C or D) for each space to complete the passage. Write your answers in the box below. (10 pts) The combination of music and study has long has long been a source of disagreement between adults and children. Parents and teachers alike maintain that silence is important when learning, (61) _______ youngsters insist that their favourite sounds help them concentrate. Now a study shows that the grown-ups have been (62) _______ all along. Psychologists in Florida tested how fast students wrote essays with and without music in the background. They found that the sounds (63) _______ progress down by about sixty words per hour. “This demonstrates clearly that it is difficult to (64) _______ with listening and writing at the same time,” said Dr Sarah Randall. She also (65) _______ to the conclusion that it is a myth that instrumental music is less distracting than vocals. “All types of music (66) _______ the same effect,” she said in her report. “One’s ability to pay attention and write fluently is likely to be (67) _______ by both vocal and instrumental music,” she added. Dr Randall claimed the research (68) _______ that the idea that music could improve performance was wrong. “Writing an essay is complex (69) _______. You are recalling information and putting it in (70) _______. An additional stimulus in the form of music is bound to distract. But music is not the only distractor. What is particularly worrying is that more and more teenagers are studying in front of the television.”