Nhận biết (M1)

The advent of online streaming has led many music listeners to drift away from ownership of music (through downloads or through physical media such as compact discs) and toward the streaming services YouTube Music and Jango, among others. Datta et al. studied the impact of this change on the variety of music that listeners consume. The researchers reasoned that the ownership model of music assigns a cost per song to acquiring a variety of music, while streaming services typically charge a flat fee for access to an entire music catalog, making variety free, which suggests that __________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

• A.

  listeners who use streaming services would be more likely to give physical copies of music as gifts to others than to purchase physical copies for themselves

• B.

  music publishers who choose to forgo releasing music on physical media are likely to see no change in revenue

• C.

  the music choices of listeners who use streaming services would likely be more varied than those of listeners who do not use streaming services

• D.

  listeners who prefer to purchase compact discs rather than use a service such as YouTube Music or Jango would tend to listen to older music