The trick to working out where musical preferences come from was to find and test people who hadn’t had much contact with Western music．McDermott and his team travelled by aeropane，car and canoe to reache remote villages of the Tsimane’ people，who are largely isolated from Western culture．In their experiments，McDermott and his colleagues investigated responses to Western music by playing combinations of notes to three groups of people：the Tsimane’ and two other groups of Bolivians that had experienced increasing levels of exposure to Weste music．The researchers recorded whether each group regarded the notes as pleasant or unpleasant．The Tsimane’ are just as good at making acoustic(声响的)distinctions as the groups with more experience of other types of music，the scientists find．Most people prefer consonant tones，but the Tsimane’ have no preference between them．“Tpretty convincingly rules out that the preferences are things we’re born with，’’ McDermott argues．“Culture plays a role．We like te music we grew up with，”agrees Dale Pues，a scientist at Duke University．“Nature versus nurture is always a foo’s errand．’’It’almost always a combination，he adds．32．Why does the author mention Beatles in the first paragraph?

　　A．To arouse reader’s interest．

　　B．To stress the importance of music．

　　C．To introduce the topic to be discussed．

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