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鹤源 · 发表于 2011-10-24 15:14:16

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？

specta · 发表于 2011-10-24 15:28:54

这题的确挺好。

原题：某个东西的一部分能完成某个事的一部分。因此，该东西（的全部）很可能就能干这个事（的全部）。

E: 这个东西（的原料）挺靠谱 -- 能够满足干这个事（的全部）所需得条件。strengthen the evidence

大意翻译：用来做该笛子的骨头的确足够长，长到能够用来做一把能够演奏全音的笛子。

鹤源 · 发表于 2011-10-24 16:06:43

E选项用的是would have been，这不是一个推测吗？能说它“确实”够长吗？另外，我觉得你抽象能力蛮好，怎么练得逻辑呢？我逻辑有点点差~

specta · 发表于 2011-10-24 16:35:19

would have been是虚拟语气，由于这是过去的事情，则虚拟语气得 would have done

如：假如我前天考了790，我可以说：i would have answered 2 more questions correctly to get a 800. NOT i would answer 2 more....

逻辑基本不需要注意时态。

逻辑我老是多想，造成错误。我是没治，到瓶颈了。我so far觉得关键就是simplication，反正就是原题告诉你A --> B, 你能把A是啥，B是啥，中间的linkage是啥找清楚，我觉得成功一大半了。接下来就是是否被错误选项所迷惑。

鹤源 · 发表于 2011-10-24 17:19:59

恩，好像说GMAT主要就是考的简化能力。我发现自己也是经常多想。Ok，多谢了！

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