[求助]GWD14-17

Q17:

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 diatonic 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.

Answer E

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偶理解，这题意思是说这个挖出的四孔笛实际说明这原来是个七孔笛，现在只有3-6的孔。但这些七孔笛都是在文艺复兴时期之后盛行，这次挖掘使人们认为七孔笛在西方人使用很早以前就开始用了。

思路就是“在西方人以前是有可能出现这样的笛子的”。比如：挖出的这个东东原先应该是七孔的（因为此次挖掘是说明七孔笛盛行的唯一依据，这一点不用再怀疑或去论证），（因为多年磨损等问题导致剩下四孔），怎么解决这个七孔和四孔的矛盾呢，那就是当年造的时候，这个原材料（其实是熊的骨头）必须够长，也就是能做到七孔。

A是否唯一的乐器与结论的是否出现早的可能性无关。

B没有其它乐器比这个东东更早，与本题的比较对象也无关，本题只比较这个笛子是否可能用的更早，与其它乐器无关

C与熊的其它残骸更没有关系

D风笛的制作工艺是否简单与用的是否更早也无关系。