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vicki_vane

  The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century.

43. Which of the following instruments was widely used before the seventeenth century?

(A)  The harpsichord

(B)  The spinet

(C)  The clavichord

(D)  The organ

各位大虾认为答案是什么?

mutegirl

我选b

closedeyes

以下是引用vicki_vane在2005-7-12 21:15:00的发言：

  The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries – the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century.

A,C,D都是从十七世纪才开始成为主流乐器，错误选项；而且，黄色部分前面那句肯定了B选项。

forgmat66

同意b。因为那三个都是17世纪的。

dancerme814

同意2 3 4楼的