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[originaltext]W: Howard, what are you working on now?M: I have just finished a
[originaltext]W: Howard, what are you working on now?M: I have just finished a
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2024-06-02
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W: Howard, what are you working on now?
M: I have just finished a piece on the background music.
W: Background music? Oh, like the music they’re playing here now.
M: Yes. You can hear it everywhere — in restaurants, airports, supermarkets, department stores and so on. It’s supposed to influence your attitudes, put you in the right mood.
W: I am not sure I like that idea.
M: Well, it seems to work. Companies pay millions of dollars every year for background music. It’s supposed to give you a better feeling about yourself and the people around you. Factories use it a lot. It makes the workers happy, and they work better that way. In one factory, music increased production 4.5 percent.
W: I should think they’d get tired of hearing music all day.
M: They don’t, though. One fellow in San Francisco told me, "If the music stops, somebody always runs to the telephone to complain."
W: Now that I think about it, I can’t remember when there wasn’t background music in restaurants and stores.
M: That shows how young you are. Actually, it all started during World War Ⅱ when some factories had their own orchestras to keep workers happy and calm. Now different kinds of music are playing at different times during the day. They play faster music at ten in the morning than at eight, for instance, because workers tend to be slower then.
W: What about restaurants? Do they play the same music for dinner and lunch?
M: I don’t know about that, but I do know that hamburger places play fast music. When they started playing faster music, they found that a customer spent only seventeen minutes eating. The time was twenty-minutes before that.
选项
A、It can increase production by 4.5 percent in factories at least.
B、It is sometimes very boring to the workers.
C、It can possibly give people better feeling and influence their attitudes.
D、It is always faster than any other music.
答案
C
解析
本题问“在Howard看来,背景音乐的作用是什么?”文中提到,Howard认为,人们可以在任意地方听到这种背景音乐,它能够影响人们的态度,使人们能保持好的心情。故C“它能给人们一个好心情,并影响他们的态度”正确。
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