[单项选择]Material culture refers to the touchable, material "things" --physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used--that a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of "thing" in it, of course, is musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical, performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, for we can outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resul
A. Instruments.
B. Music.
C. Paintings.
D. Sheet music.

[单项选择] Material culture refers to the touchable, material "thing" physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used -- that a culture produces. Examining a culture’’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music culture. The most vivid body of "things" in it, of course, are musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movements of music from the Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orches
A. it can reflect the development of the nation
B. it can demonstrate the nation’’s civilization
C. it helps understand the nation’’s past and present
D. it helps produce new cultural tools and technology