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(b) Would have continued to seek new adventures and records to break if she had not died at the age of 39.

(c) became too confident and took too many risks to be able to live to old age.

(d) did not want to return to the United States.

Question 41-50

Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia even Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike such a chord with the limbic system – an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking, and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.

41. Why did the author write the passage?

(a) To describe the music for some animals, including humans

(b) To illustrate the importance of music to whales

(c) To show that music is not a human or even modern invention

(d) To suggest that music is independent of life forms that use it

42. The word “sophisticated” in line 5 is closest in meaning to

(a) complex

(b) intricate

(c) well-developed

(d) entangled

(a) the chord

(b) the left brain

(c) the right brain

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