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122. The spacing of the four holes on afragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite is just what isrequired to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale—theseven-note musical scale used in much of Western music since the Renaissance. Musicologiststherefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and usedthousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
Which of the following, if true, moststrongly supports the hypothesis?
(A) Bone flutes were probably the onlymusical instrument made by Neanderthals.
(B) No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatonic scale is ofan earlier date than the flute found at the Neanderthal campsite.
(C) The flute was made from a cave-bearbone and the campsite at which the flute fragment was excavated was in a cavethat also contained skeletal remains of cave bears.
(D) Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allowplaying a diatonic scale.
(E) The cave-bear leg bone used to make theNeanderthal flute would have been long enough to make a flute capable ofplaying a complete diatonic scale.
这道题的答案是E。但是觉得没办法理解，E到底是什么意思呢？-- by 会员 鹤源 (2011/10/24 15:15:01)