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单选题Questions are based on the recording you have just heard.
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A．It was not as popular there as it was in other European countries.
B．It was listened to in the countryside more than the cities.
C．It motivated Bart6k to listen to other types of music.
D．It became popular since the appearance of Bart6k's works.

参考答案C

解析:Today I just want to say something about the influence of nationalism on the composers' music. Here I should discuss an important composer's, Béla Bartók. He was a wonderful and ground-breaking composer, whose life stretched from the late nineteenth century to the middle of twentieth century.
Bartok was born in Austria-Hungary, a nation that broke apart when he was about forty years old. Actually, the town where he was born is presently part of Roman. During Bartók's youth, the music played in the concert halls of Austria-Hungary was dominated by Romantic pieces by mostly German composers. These pieces were long and expressed deep personal emotion. [20] And in the early 1900s, composers who worked in the Romantic style were the most popular in Austria-Hungary_. But Bartok, he was part of the musical community that was trying to change this. And it led him to... well, the first thing it did was lead him to travel. He looked at the countryside for the music of the farmers and the people who lived in small towns, and their music. Well, you could say he discovered the music that was popular in those areas. He travelled to a significant portion of Eastern Europe actually. He wandered in the countryside and listened to the music heard in small towns and in all sorts of celebrations. He attended weddings, dances and religious ceremonies,
where he heard a very different sort of music from the Romantic stuff being played in the concert halls in the cities. The music he heard is what we would consider folk music. But he didn't have those same songs played in the concert halls immediately.
[21] At first he went around to document the folk music. He really wanted to make sure the folk songs were written down before they disappeared. In fact, Bartók didn't start out the trip thinking of himself as a composer. He studied the traditional music of the region. But it turns out that what would later have a notable influence on European music on the whole was the way Bart6k used elements he heard in folk songs in his own compositions. He adopted a number of elements from what he heard, like unusual rhythms.
When Bartok had his new pieces performed,[22] their folk music roots made them instantly popular. It happened to be a time of strong nationalism in Austria-Hungary, so his compositions came at just the right time. He became very_ successful there. Particularly, when Bartok's ballet The Wooden Prince opened, there was great excitement for music that included musical elements from local folk songs, music that reflected the region's musical traditions. However, as popular as Bartók was in his homeland, he did not get much international recognition during his lifetime.
【预测】选项均为对it的表述，结合其中的not as popular．motivated Bartók to，became popular和appearance可知，本题可能考查it当时的发展情况或对某人的影响。
【解析】C。录音中教授提到，20世纪早期奥匈帝国最受欢迎的是专注于浪漫主义风格的(worked in the Romantic style.作曲家，但巴托克是一个音乐团体的成员，他们想改变这种情况。由此可推知，浪漫主义音乐的存促使巴托克想听到其他类型的音乐，故答案为C。

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A．To promote his ballet The Wooden Prince.
B．To document the local popular music.
C．To discover which musical elements were popular.
D．To find unusual musical elements he could use.

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A．Bartók’s music was considered more sophisticated than other concert-hall music.
B．Bartók’s compositions incorporated music from the local culture.
C．People were familiar with the Romantic elements Bartók included in his music.
D．Bartók’s took advantage of the popularity of ballet there and wrote many new ballets.

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B．Large animals have fewer offspring.
C．Large animals need more energy.
D．Large animals have greater difficulty staying warm.

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