题目：
Codex Berinensis, a Florentine copy of an 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 copyist, which indicates some significant disruption. Since a letter in handwriting identified as that of the fourth copyist mentions a plague that killed many people in Florence in 1148, 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 one outbreak of plague in Florence in the 1100s.
E. The number of pages of Codex Berinensis produced by a single scribe becomes smaller with each successive change of copyist.
求助大牛啊我怎么都想不通答案为什么是D，我觉得只有一次outbreak也并不能说明一定就是1148年produce的吧。。。
谢谢各位啦！！
-- by 会员 linwell (2011/10/16 20:24:16)
题目：
Codex Berinensis, a Florentine copy of an 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 copyist, which indicates some significant disruption. Since a letter in handwriting identified as that of the fourth copyist mentions a plague that killed many people in Florence in 1148, 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 one outbreak of plague in Florence in the 1100s.
E. The number of pages of Codex Berinensis produced by a single scribe becomes smaller with each successive change of copyist.
求助大牛啊我怎么都想不通答案为什么是D，我觉得只有一次outbreak也并不能说明一定就是1148年produce的吧。。。
谢谢各位啦！！
-- by 会员 linwell (2011/10/16 20:24:16)
因为红色部分说明disruption D选项排除了plague重复出现的可能性，所以只有1148那年有plague，那么Codex Berinensis才会断断续续由4个人完成。 不知道我理解的对不对哈~
-- by 会员 woyao730 (2011/10/16 21:42:08)
It basically hints that all the copyist died except the last one. And if there was only one such fatal plague, then most likely these copyist died in the same year of the plague.
-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2011/10/17 0:08:31)