JAN 21, 2009 Volume 4 -- This is your brain on music, #2 (15)

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1. Music is unusual among all human activities for both its ______ and its antiquity.
2. The power of music to evoke emotions is ______ by advertising executives, filmmakers, military commanders, and mothers.
3. The two terms, tone and note refer to the same ____ in the abstract, but we reserve the word tone for what you hear, and the word note for what you see written on a musical score.
4. Film directors use music to tell us how to feel about scenes that otherwise might be ambiguous, or to _____ our feelings at particularly dramatic moments.
5. Music theorists have an _______, rarified set of terms and rules that are as obscure as some of the most _____ domains of mathematics.

A) ubiquity
B) harnessed
C) augment
D) esoteric
E) arcane
F) entity

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A) ubiquity
B) harnessed
F) entity
C) augment
E) arcane
D) esoteric



ubiquity:

1.	the state or capacity of being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresence: the ubiquity of magical beliefs.

2.	(initial capital letter) Theology. the omnipresence of God or Christ.

harness:
–noun

1.	the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke 1 (def. 1).

2.	(on a loom) the frame containing heddles through which the warp is drawn and which, in combination with another such frame or other frames, forms the shed and determines the woven pattern.

3.	the equipment, as straps, bolts, or gears, by which a large bell is mounted and rung.

4.	Electricity.

5.	armor for persons or horses.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to put a harness on (a horse, donkey, dog, etc.); attach by a harness, as to a vehicle.

7.	to bring under conditions for effective use; gain control over for a particular end: to harness water power; to harness the energy of the sun.

8.	Archaic. to array in armor or equipments of war.

augment:
–verb (used with object)

1.	to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.

2.	Music. a. to raise (the upper note of an interval or chord) by a half step. b. to double the note values of (a theme): In the fugue's development the subject is augmented.

3.	Grammar. to add an augment to.

4.	Heraldry. to grant an augmentation to (a coat of arms).

–verb (used without object)

5.	to become larger.

–noun

6.	Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian.

esoteric:

1.	understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.

2.	belonging to the select few.

3.	private; secret; confidential.

4.	(of a philosophical doctrine or the like) intended to be revealed only to the initiates of a group: the esoteric doctrines of Pythagoras

arcane:
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric: She knew a lot about Sanskrit grammar and other arcane matters.


entity:

1.	something that has a real existence; thing: corporeal entities.

2.	being or existence, esp. when considered as distinct, independent, or self-contained: He conceived of society as composed of particular entities requiring special treatment.

3.	essential nature: The entity of justice is universality.

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1A
2B
3F
4C
5E D

这次是不是可以通过词性来选择哦。

艾惟UID: 2502625

这些都是你自己总结的吗，好有心啊！