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Music critic: Fewer and fewer musicians are studying classical music, decreasing
Music critic: Fewer and fewer musicians are studying classical music, decreasing
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2025-02-25
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Music critic: Fewer and fewer musicians are studying classical music, decreasing the likelihood that those with real aptitude for such music will be performing it. Audiences who hear these performances will not appreciate classical music’s greatness and will thus decamp to other genres. So to maintain classical music’s current meager popularity, we must encourage more young musicians to enter the field.
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the music critic’s reasoning?
选项
A、Musicians who choose to study classical music do so because they believe they have an aptitude for the music.
B、Classical music’s current meager popularity is attributable to the profusion of other genres of music available to listeners.
C、Most people who appreciate classical music come to do so through old recordings rather than live performances.
D、It is possible to enjoy the music in a particular genre even when it is performed by musicians who are not ideally suited for that genre.
E、The continued popularity of a given genre of music depends in part on the audience’s being able to understand why that genre attained its original popularity.
答案
C
解析
Argument Evaluation
Situation Fewer musicians are studying classical music. This reduces the likelihood that those performing the music will have real aptitude for it, which in turn reduces audience’s appreciation of classical music performances.
Reasoning What evidence would cast the most doubt on the support provided for the conclusion that encouraging more young musicians to study classical music is necessary in order to maintain the genre’s meager popularity? The music critic’s argument is that because fewer talented classical musicians are performing, audiences hearing their performances will fail to appreciate the genre, and thus will abandon it. The critic reasons that to solve this problem, it will be necessary to encourage more young musicians to study classical music so that audiences will eventually be exposed to more talented classical performers and decide the genre is worthwhile after all. The argument would be weakened, for example, by evidence that hearing unremarkable live performances does not really drive many people away from classical music, or that the number of audience members hearing great performances does not depend much on the number of talented performers, or that encouraging young musicians to study classical music is either ineffective or not the only effective way to increase the number of talented classical performers.
A This does not weaken the critic’s reasoning. However much confidence musicians studying classical music have in their own talent, a decline in the total number of classical musicians will probably result in a decline in the number of truly talented classical musicians, just as the critic assumes.
B The critic is only proposing a way to at least maintain classical music’s current meager popularity, which might be accomplished even if the profusion of other genres prevents classical music’s popularity from increasing.
C Correct. This suggests that classical music’s meager popularity could at least be maintained by encouraging people to listen to great old recordings of classical music rather than by increasing the supply of great live performances.
D This does weaken the argument slightly. But even if a few audience members manage to enjoy mediocre classical music performances, they might still be more strongly drawn to other genres with more talented performers.
E Listeners exposed to more impressive live performances of classical music by talented performers would probably better understand why classical music was once popular than would listeners exposed only to mediocre classical performances.
The correct answer is C.
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