The spacing of the four holes on a fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite is just what is required to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale-the seven-not musical scale used in my of western music since the Renaissance. Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by western musicians.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly support the hypothesis?
A Bone flutes were probably the only musical instrument made by Neanderthals.
B. No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatonic scale is of an earlier date than the flute found at the Neanderthal campsite.
C. The flute was made from a cave-bear bone and the campsite at which the flute fragment was excavated was in a cave that also contained skeletal remains of cave bears.
D Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allow playing a diatonic scale.
E The cave-bear leg bone use to make the Neanderthal flute would have been long enough to make a flute capable of playing a complete diatonic scale.
Codex Berinensis, a Florentine copy of ancient Roman medical treatise, is undated but contains clues to when it was produced. Its first 80 pages are by a single copyist, but the remaining 20 pages are by three different copyists, which indicates some significant disruption. Since a letter in handwriting identified as that of the fourth copyist mentions a plague that killed ay people in Florence in 114, Codex Berinensis was probably produced in that year.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the hypothesis that Codex Berinensis was produced in 1148?
A. Other than Codex Berinensis, there are no known samples of the handwriting of the first three copyists.
B. According to the account by the fourth copyist, the plague went on for 10 months.
C. A scribe would be able to copy a page of text the size and style of Codex Berinensis in a day.
D. There was only on outbreak of plague in Florence in the 1100s.
E. The number of pages of Codex Berinensis produced by a single scribe becomes smaller ith each successive change of copyist.
我个人的理解
第一个题：4个孔可以演奏出3456-推出-在被西方人adopt之前n年就可以演奏diatonic musical scale
---至少要先演奏出来才行，还少三个孔
骨头足够长才能造出能演奏dms的笛子
第二题：
原文假设：114年瘟疫爆发——Codex Berinensis was probably produced in that year.D选项加强：1100s，没有其他瘟疫爆发——证实114年的瘟疫是这个 significant disruption。
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