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The Magic of Music
音楽の不思議なカ
The history of music is very old. People alt over the world have always loved t,
Is there anyone who doesn't like music? Probably the answer is no. Music is
the most necessary things in life, Maybe people can't live without music. Do antmas
and plants like music, too? Do they understand music?
2 One day Mrs. Evans read a very interesting story in the newspaper. A
** university professor found out that her plants became stronger when music was
played for them. At first she thought that ., it was a joke, but she wanted to ury it
herself. She built two rooms in the garden and put the same kind of vegetables in
both rooms, The temperature of the rooms was the same and both of them were very
10 quiet. Music was played in one room. The other room was silent.
Surprised to find that the next day the vegetables that she played music for became
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taller than the ones in the silent room.
3 In the United States, there was a farmer who kept many c0ws. The farmer was
very interested in music, When he stayed at home, he always listened to music on
the radio. One day he took his radio to the farm. When he was *milking his
the radio was playing beautiful music. He found that the cows gave more milk "han
the reason, and three months later he
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COWS。
usual on that day, He wanted to know
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learned that he could get more milk when the cows listened to beautiful, quiet musi。
4 Today many scientists say that animals and plants also enjoy music. Like ne
20 animals and plants need beautifu! music, But they don't like big, **terrible noises
Scientists **complain about noise *"pollution. It damages animals, plants, and people
They say that
we must think about many kinds of noises that we are making every
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day.