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  3. The music sounds, at first, like it belongs in a power yoga studio: electronic and rhythmic, rising and falling like breaths. Bu

The music sounds, at first, like it belongs in a power yoga studio: electronic and rhythmic, rising and falling like breaths. Bu

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问题     The music sounds, at first, like it belongs in a power yoga studio: electronic and rhythmic, rising and falling like breaths. But then a higher pitch juts (深入) into the mix, and the strains ( 曲调) of sound diverge, becoming faster-paced and a bit more like electronic dance music. The rise and swell fluctuates, not entirely predictable. The artists at work are, ostensibly, plants; a philodendron (喜林芋), two schefflera (鸭脚木) and a snake plant (虎皮兰).
    Plant music is coming to you, or rather, it’s there if you seek it out—and there are plenty of musicians these days waiting to be discovered. The indoor houseplant market is booming, especially among millennials. By one report, sales surged almost 50%, to $1.7 billion, between 2016 and 2019. Relatedly, there’s been a surge in "plantfluencers," social media stars at the intersection of horticulture, wellness and Instagram, curating (展出) photos of minimalist jungles in well-lit living rooms.
    Now, through bio-sonification devices like Music of the Plants and PlantWave, plant enthusiasts can open channels of communication with their plants, conducted in the trending language of ambient noise.
    PlantWave grew out of a record label called Data Garden, started by Joe Patitucci and Alex Tyson in 2011. Data Garden produced digital albums, partially distributed via download codes printed on artwork that was embedded with plantable flower seeds, as well as installations and interactive exhibitions that combined plants, music and technology. In 2012, an early iteration of PlantWave was born when the Philadelphia Museum of Art invited the label to do an installation at the museum. Data Garden worked with an engineer, Sam Cusumano, to develop a device that translated micro-conductivity on the surface of plants into a graph that could be used to control hardware and software synthesizers. The result was "Data Garden Quartet," featuring four harmonizing plants that played continuous music. After that, Patitucci and Tyson wanted to create a commercially available version for musicians and plant lovers; the first iteration sold out, and a new and improved model, funded by a successful campaign, will be released in the near future.

What do we know about the indoor houseplant market?
选项 A、It outperformed the outdoor plant market.
B、Its sales were at peak in 2019.
C、Sales increased at a rapid rate.
D、Sales surged 50% within five years.
答案C
解析 由题干中的the indoor houseplant market定位到第二段第二、三句。细节辨认题。定位句指出，一项报告显示，在2016年到2019年间，室内植物的销量暴涨了几乎50％，达到了17亿美元。由此可知室内植物的销量在急速增长，故答案为C)。
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