D篇主题语境:人与社会—科学本文是说明文。研究表明,母语影响一个人的音乐能力。32.B。理解具体信息。根据第二段中的Liu helped analyze the musical abilities of nearlyhalf a million people from 203 countries.Her colleagues had launched an onlinegame in which participants completed several musical tasks可知,Liu的同事想要了解人们的音乐能力所以推出了一款在线游戏。33.D,理解具体信息,根据第二段中的an online game in which participants completedseveral musical tasks,including identifying matching melodies at different pitchesand finding beat tracks that fit songs'rhythms和第三段中的On average,,nativespeakers of the 19 represented tonal languages were better at the melody taskcompared with speakers of29 nontonal languages可知,以音调语言为母语的人在识别旋律方面更具有优势。34.B。理解词汇。根据划线词前的the -balancing act in music和划线词后的you've gotto divide up that somehow可知,划线词的意思是"有限的”。35.D。推断。根据第二段及倒数第二段的内容可知,以前的研究仅仅局限于比较说两种语言的人,这项新的研究包括了来自203个国家的人,研究范围的扩大使该研究更具普遍性。故可用“突破性的”形容该研究。第二节主题语境:人与自我一生活本文是说明文。文章讲述了增加生活乐趣的四个方法。36.F。根据该空后的Last fall,76%of adults said stress has affected their health可知,