GWD-1-17

rennybaby

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?

Bone flutes were probably the only musical instrument made by Neanderthals.

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.

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.

Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allow playing a diatonic scale.

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.

The KEY is E. Why yah? My answer is B.

leonchan

“因果关系资料正确”：

E说骨头确实有可能是乐器的一部分（E. The cave-bear leg bonebeen long enough to make a flute capable of playing a complete diatonic scale.）

或者看做是“假设型支持”--E将骨头和乐器联系起来

carolhide

我还是不明白。

The spacing of the four holes on a fragment of a bone flute excavated ...不是已经说是骨头笛子了么，那还需要再把两者连接么？

zhoujian

我怎么也觉得是B啊

我觉得这是排除他因，说没有比这个更早的了。反过来说，如果有的话，就说明它不是最早的，从而削弱了。

jjll

Musicologists的假设是Neanderthal developed and used the diatonic musical scale。diatonic musical scale 是 seven-note 的，但发掘出来的bone flute 只有4个note。所以说E是加强。

steveyangxt

结论是the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.并不是一个确切的日期。所以即使发现比这还早的乐器，很有可能也是比西方音乐家的早上几千年， 不能削弱。e是对的

nirvana0211

我认为E不正确，diatonic musical scale 有7个notes，Neanderthal 的bone只有4个notes，E说骨头足够长，Neanderthal 却只凿了4个洞，削弱了hypothesis。

C说明了Neanderthal用bear做的笛子，支持。

请指正。