1 . “If music is the medicine of the soul, let it play on,” said a famous person. I think he said so probably because he had got some help from music. Music has some strange functions. Medical scientists have found that a person who feels stressed can actually listen to a certain kind of music and become relaxed.

Researchers said that since stress comes as a result of some events in life such as starting a new family, starting a new business and starting a new job, one can actually listen to good music and feel good because good music touches humans in a positive way. Music helps you forget these events that make you worried and remember the important events that once happened in your life.

Depression(抑郁症) is a disease caused by stress, smoking, social problems, etc. Depression is also caused by difficulties such as failure in business. Depression may bring us weakness, headaches and loss of concentration. Good music makes one remember happy moments or days. If you play music about love, it makes you feel like falling in love again though you may have had several upset experiences. And such good feelings make you healthy.

Anxiety is another health problem that can be controlled by music. Anxiety is one of the side effects of some major health problems such as liver cancer and breast cancer. Good music makes you feel relaxed and relieves the pain caused by these diseases and you will feel better. Good music also makes you sleep better, and you need to know that sleep puts your body in a healthy condition. Good sleep takes away the effects of stress, depression and anxiety from a person.

1. What do you know about music according to the famous person in Paragraph 1?

A．Music can treat many kinds of diseases.

B．Music can help you keep mentally healthy.

C．Music can take the place of medicine in treating illness.

D．Music can make you remember things that happened in the past.

2. How does good music help people remove stress?

A．By letting people have a good sleep.	B．By making people think positively.
C．By showing something new to people.	D．By making people focus only on important things.

3. According to the passage, what will one who has cancer most probably experience?

A．Stress

B．Depression.

C．Anxiety.

D．Upset

4. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A．The benefits of listening to music to health.

B．Stress can bring us many kinds of diseases.

C．Some diseases have something to do with music.

D．Tips for us to live a healthy and comfortable life.