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专题09 任务型阅读10篇 (名校真题) （2023上·上海普陀·九年级校考期末）根据短文内容回答问题。 Is it possible to listen to too much music? I love music so much that I decided to study it in college. I’m earning a doctoral degree (博士学位) in music history, for which I have researched everything from early classical music to 20th-century music. I always have my headphones on. I listen to music while taking a walk. I listen to pop songs while answering emails. I miss out on a lot around me by listening to music all of the time, however. I might not hear the sound of birds outside my window or the sound of the wind. Or the conversations of my family enjoying one another’s company right outside my closed door. Apart from causing you to miss out on all the sounds that surround you, generally speaking, listening to music does not harm your body. It does not damage your liver, poison your lungs or fry your brain. There are, however, exceptions. For instance, you can damage your ears if you listen to music that is too loud for long periods of time. The World Health Organization estimates that around 50 percent of teenagers and young adults listen to music at unsafe levels. The WHO has concluded that people can withstand (承受) 85 decibels (分贝) continuously for eight hours without damaging their hearing. Anyone who plays music regularly or attends concerts needs to take extra caution as well. Several rock stars from the 1970s and 1980s have spoken out for years about their experience with hearing loss and tinnitus (耳鸣) Their condition resulted from rehearsing (排练) and performing for long periods of time at loud volumes (音量). The average concert often exceeds (超过) 100 decibels, and the WHO notes that such sound levels can begin to damage one's ears after only 15 minutes. Most musicians rehearse and perform for more than 15 minutes. And most concerts last at least an hour. The solution, then, is to take precautions (预防措施). I carry earplugs (耳塞) everywhere. They can cut out up to 21 decibels of noise. I put my earplugs i