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60. Earworms are songs that repeat endlessly in 61. The majority of biologists use the word ‘marine
your head, sometimes for days or even months. mammal’ to refer to five distinct mammalian
You cannot stop yourself from humming or groups: cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and
singing for no apparent reason. ---- They enter porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and
without permission and refuse to leave when walruses), sirenians (manatees, dugongs, and
told. Moreover, they frequently appear to possess sea cows), marine and sea otters, and polar bears.
an interesting or distinctive quality. Tunes that ---- For example, pinnipeds rarely breed or give
become earworms have a slight twist or oddity birth in the water, while polar bears may travel
that makes them ‘catchy’, and this may be a considerable distances on land before returning
clue as to why they might lodge in your memory to the nearest marine waters. However, these
system. If they were not that distinctive, they mammals, like the sirenians and cetaceans, get
would be overshadowed by all the other memories most or all of their nutrition from the water, and
that sound similar. this makes them marine mammals.

A) Psychology and neuroscience can provide some A) Interest in marine mammals has increased
vital intelligence on how to deal with an unruly significantly in the past few decades.
mind. B) A variety of human activities pose a growing
B) Some people say that singing an earworm to the threat to these animals and their environments.
end can help get rid of it, while others report that C) Species of marine mammals vary greatly in their
this does not work at all. capacity to adapt to an aquatic lifestyle.
C) It is not true that every piece of music we listen to D) Marine mammals are not entirely reliant on
will cause us to hear the same melody over and aquatic environments to survive.
over again in our heads.
E) The number of marine mammals is quite low
D) Researchers suggest that the music we listen to when compared to the number of land mammals.
before sleep continues to be processed in our
brains even when we are asleep.
E) The most interesting aspect of earworms is that
they reveal a component of your mind clearly
beyond your control.

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