Music is universal – it is produced by all cultures. Some scientists believe that music came before speech and arose as a development of mating calls. In fact, there is one theory that the (1) _______ languages were chanted or sung rather than spoken. Indeed, in some cultures, music is a form of (2) _______ history. The aboriginal Australian, for example, uses music as a mean to (3) _______ on stories to the land and spirits to the next generation.

New evidence suggests that music does not just satisfy good factors, it is also good for the brain. A study of intellectually disabled children showed that they could recall more (4) _______ after it was given to them in a song than after it was read to them a story. Researchers also report that people (5) _______ better on a standard intelligence test after listening to Mozart, which is called the “Mozart effect”.