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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.

答案是E。我选D，看过讨论，但讨论里的东东说服不了我。首先D可以看作原文的隐含假设，原文音乐家对骨头笛的的分析而推出的猜想，是要建立在骨头笛能演奏diatonic 的，而D项指出了这个假设。假设是可以成为支持题答案的。而E项说，cave-bear leg bone 怎么怎么样，原文并没有说找到的骨头就是cave-bear 的，只说骨头笛而已。D项flute包含了骨头笛，而E项，不确定是否就是指原文的那块骨头。所以我认为D项更像答案。牛牛觉得呢？

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以下是引用yu208864在2006-5-16 16:07:00的发言：

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.

答案是E。我选D，看过讨论，但讨论里的东东说服不了我。首先D可以看作原文的隐含假设，原文音乐家对骨头笛的的分析而推出的猜想，是要建立在骨头笛能演奏diatonic 的，而D项指出了这个假设。假设是可以成为支持题答案的。而E项说，cave-bear leg bone 怎么怎么样，原文并没有说找到的骨头就是cave-bear 的，只说骨头笛而已。D项flute包含了骨头笛，而E项，不确定是否就是指原文的那块骨头。所以我认为D项更像答案。牛牛觉得呢？

原文说a fragment of a bone flute上 有四个孔的足够的距离（空间），可以演奏一部分diatonic scale，由此推出结论that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians；但存在缺陷：flute演奏一部分diatonic scale，不能说明结论，必须能演奏全部才行。E说The cave-bear leg bone 足够长，可以演奏a complete diatonic scale。显然是说：虽然残段上只有四孔，但完整的FLUTE 上一定有足够的孔，来演奏a complete diatonic scale。完善了原文。至于cave-bear 不在原文出现只是小问题。

D只是说flute可以演奏a diatonic scale，没说原始的骨笛，这里讨论的是原始的骨笛。泛指的笛能演奏a diatonic scale，与文中关系不大。