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  3. The history of Western music probably begins with the music of the Christian Church. But all through the Middle Ages and even to

The history of Western music probably begins with the music of the Christian Church. But all through the Middle Ages and even to

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问题     The history of Western music probably begins with the music of the Christian Church. But all through the Middle Ages and even to the present time men have continually turned back to Greece and Rome for instruction, for correction, and for inspiration in several fields of work; this has been true in music-though with some important differences. Roman literature, for example, never ceased to exert influence in the Middle Ages, and this influence became much greater in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when more Roman works became known; at the same time, too, the surviving literature of Greece was gradually recovered. But in literature, as well as in some other fields(notably sculpture), medieval or Renaissance artists had the advantage of being able to study and, if they so desired, imitate the models of antiquity. The actual poems or statues were before them. In music this was not so. The Middle Ages did not possess a single example of Greek or Roman music — nor, it may be added, are we today much better off. About a dozen examples — half of them were fragments—of Greek music have been discovered, nearly all from comparatively late periods, but there is no general agreement as to just how they were meant to sound; there are no authentic remains of ancient Roman music. So we, as well as the men of medieval times, derive nearly all our knowledge of this in the ancient civilizations at second hand from a few rather vague accounts of performances, but mostly from theatrical treatises and literary descriptions.
The influence of Greece and Rome became greater in the fourteenth and fifteenth century because______.
选项 A、Roman and Greek works were better than those of medieval Christian church
B、Roman and Greek works were different from Medieval works
C、the Roman and Greek music became known
D、a lot of Roman and Greek works were discovered
答案D
解析 本题中，A、B两项在文中未被提及；C项不正确。从文中的“this influence became much greater in the fourteenth and fitieenth centuries when more Roman works became known”可知，此处known的意思即“被发现”，因此D项为正确答案。
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