Passage 2Does Christmas music put you in the spirit of giving or turn your heart two sizes too small? Ifyou find yourself relating to a hairy, green, holiday-hating beast known as the Grinch when your earsare filled with the sounds of the season, you’re in good company. A 2011 Consumer Reports pollfound that almost 25% of Americans picked seasonal music as one of the most dreaded aspects of theholiday season, ranking just behind “seeing certain relatives.”A 2017 survey of 2,000 people in the US and Britain by Soundtrack Your Brand, aSpotify-backed company that says it’s on a mission “to kill bad background music,” found that 17%of US shoppers and 25% of British shoppers “actively” dislike Christmas music.One reason you might find yourself cringing is oversaturation. Due to “Christmas creep,” musicand decorations seem to go up earlier each year, much closer to Halloween than Thanksgiving. Thatgives you ample time to hear Mariah Carey’s hit “All I Want for Christmas is You” for what seemslike the googolplex time before you get far on your shopping list.That’s certainly the case for retail workers who are forced to listen to holiday tunes on aseemingly endless loop in the workplace. Soundtrack Your Brand’s survey found that one in sixemployees believe Christmas music repetition negatively affects “their emotional well-being,” whilea full 25% said they felt less festive.
41. What is turning people into Grinch who has a heart two sizes too small?
(A) Christmas shopping
(B) freezing temperature
(C) expensive gifts
(D) Christmas music