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#4 课时作业 6　 THE ADMIRABLE Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2023·江苏宿迁高三月考) Matthew Whitaker has been blind since birth. His parents were told that he only had a 50% chance of survival, and he experienced 11 operations before he was even two years old. Despite being faced with these terrible situations,he survived. Not only that,he exhibited an excellent gift for playing the piano;by the time he was 3 years old, he was playing two-handed piano compositions and writing his own songs without ever having a teacher. At the age of 5,he even could play the songs completely after hearing them one time. Dalia Sakas, the director of New York􀆳s Filomen M. D􀆳Agostino Greenberg Music School, recalls the moment she decided to take Matthew on as a student when he was five years old,making him the youngest person to ever attend the school. Now only 22 years old,Whitaker has since toured the world, headlined famous sites from Carnegie Hall to Kennedy Center, and won a number of music awards. Such is the height of Whitaker􀆳s talent that he caught the attention of Dr Charles Limb, a neurologist who also happens to be a fellow musician. Dr Limb was attracted by what might have been going on inside Whitaker􀆳s brain, so with the permission of the musician and his family, Whitaker took two MRI exams—first while being exposed to different stimuli, including music, and then while he played on a keyboard. What Dr Limb was surprised to find was that Whitaker􀆳s brain seemed to have repurposed its own disused visual cortex(视觉皮质) in order to build oth