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mumuho

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

the answer is E. I chose B.

pls help. thanks.

xfi883

原文大意：

在N出土了....一种乐器。

因此，音乐家推论，在西方音乐家继承这个方法之前数千年，就已经有这种乐器的使用的。

关键点——证明出土的这种乐器可以演奏，并被西方音乐家继承。

E说，出土的那些东西可以当作乐器进行演奏。从而推出，这些出土的乐器可以证明数千年前就已经演奏某种音乐了。

B说，没有比N出土的东西更早的乐器。（与问题无关）

注意：不要被生僻词汇蒙蔽，那些词汇都可跳过。主要的是抓住前提和结论的关系。

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/7/20 23:57:19编辑过]

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B选项中No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatomic scale is of an earlier date 无关,对原文结论不起任何作用.

而E中long enough to make a flute 正好支持four holes, developed and used, sixth notes of the diatonic scale—the seven-note,故而选E.

mumuho

非常感谢。