GWD-1-17 百思不得其解

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-note musical scale used in much 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 supports the hypothesis?

1. Bone flutes were probably the only musical instrument made by Neanderthals.
2. No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatomic scale is of an earlier date than the flute found at the Neanderthal campsite.
3. 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.
4. Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allow playing a diatonic scale.
5. The cave-bear leg bone used to make the Neanderthal flute would have been long enough to make a flute capable of playing a complete diatonic scale.

为什么选E? 百思不得其解。

牛牛解读一下D选项，我选D.

看来还是要读懂题目的意思啊，这样CR就迎刃而解了。

这道题一开始怎么也不会，意思一通，一看很简单。有点郁闷，希望考试的时候都能很通吧

严重同意xinfaxian！！！

看原文要看核心推理；

看选项要看选项重心!

what is required to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale

上面这句话是什么意思？另外选项E用would have ，这是虚拟语气吗？还是不明白，请NN帮忙解答一下

我也选D，现在明白了。

E可以理解.

"Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians."

以上hypothesis是通过碎片上的四孔来推断,但此Hypothesis强调的是时间,为什么B不对?

我是选e  但對B的选項有掙扎過

請各位提供些想法  B) 是如何排除的

thanks