Which statement best conveys a central idea of the passage? research consistently indicates that actively playing music has a positive impact on brain development. research shows that learning to passively appreciate music plays an important role in positive brain development. research shows how important hearing music was to brain development before modern advances in entertainment and technology. research indicates that music played an important role in the lives of jefferson, einstein, and other influential thinkers.

Research consistently indicates that actively playing music has a positive impact on brain development.

Explanation:

Throughout the entire text, we are informed about all the good things music can give us as it is said to have helped some of the greatest men in history such as Einstein and Jefferson.

Nevertheless there is a constant mention of actively paying music in the passage. The research was mainly conducted on those who played an instrument because it is the active engagement that rewires the brain, while passive appreciation of music cannot provide such brain improvement.

a biography is a genre that mainly accounts somebody's life and that is written by somebody else. this genre supports sonia nazario's desire to share enrique's life because she can fully inform readers of his entire emotional journey.

in a biography, an author can share the readers almost everything about a person's life, or just one key event or personal aspect the author is interested in telling, like in this specific case in which sonia nazario is centered in enrique's emotional journey.

answer: #1 is (a) however

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