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雪落无声

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.

AàB, B有可能

Hypothesis: musical scale was developed and used thousands of years ago

Support: thousands of years ago, 有可能做这个乐器

C排除他因 没有东东比在N地发现的东东更早――》支持的是原文的逻辑关系而非结论

原文逻辑关系：有个乐器几千年前就已经发明了――》在N地的考古发现几千年前的乐器

请教NN是这样的关系嘛？还是有什么别的错误我没有看出来？

E

GreenHorse

AàB, B有可能

Hypothesis: musical scale was developed and used thousands of years ago

Support: thousands of years ago, 有可能做这个乐器

C排除他因 没有东东比在N地发现的东东更早――》支持的是原文的逻辑关系而非结论

原文逻辑关系：有个乐器几千年前就已经发明了――》在N地的考古发现几千年前的乐器

请教NN是这样的关系嘛？还是有什么别的错误我没有看出来？

E

有个乱码, 没太看懂. E是答案吗?

我觉得ABC都没关系.

倾向于E, 因为提供了一个事实, 那骨头可以做成笛子, 的可能性.

scots

偶是蜗牛，偶也想叨两句。。

AàB, B有可能

Hypothesis: musical scale was developed and used thousands of years ago

Support: thousands of years ago, 有可能做这个乐器

C排除他因 没有东东比在N地发现的东东更早――》支持的是原文的逻辑关系而非结论

原文逻辑关系：有个乐器几千年前就已经发明了――》在N地的考古发现几千年前的乐器

请教NN是这样的关系嘛？还是有什么别的错误我没有看出来？

我觉得原题的逻辑推导关系是：因为发现了能演奏全音阶的骨笛的一部分，所以假设全音阶在几千年前就存在了。

说一点题外话：按我自己的逻辑，我给这种题目起了一个名字——暗含前提（假设），可以用假设题的NOT削弱的方法搞定。另外，在做逻辑的时候，我觉得有时假设的NOT削弱和weaken的排除他因是刚好相反的，即weaken是要排除其他可能的原因，而NOT削弱的假设则是要找出一个重要的原因，加上原文中有的信息，就能得出结论了（解题的感觉有点象数学的DS）。分析OG的80、81，就可以很明显感觉到了。。

所以，在这题里，如果C象小雪说的是排除他因的话，就不太可能是支持原题中任何逻辑关系的证据了。。

倒是我觉得ABC都是无关选项，D则是干扰项，能起到一点支持的作用，但是说到“most strongly supports ”的话，还得是E了。。。因为如果E不成立，假设结论就肯定成立不了了。。。

偶有点太罗嗦了，欢迎大家一起切磋~~~

dashasha

我也选E。E是答案吗？

叮当

I think the answer is E. If the bone is not long enough, then there might not be enough holes for Neanderthal to play from "the 1st through 7th notes of the diatonic scale". Maybe they could only "play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale". Therefore the conclusion is not right.  

2love2live

I would say E, the reason is simple, because all others are not relevant. When reading the sentence, I tend to think none of the answers is strong enough to support the hypothesis, but you know - 矮子中间选将军, you got to choose E.

cranberry

e is the answer, cos it provides us with a piece of information that it might be a flute that can possibly play the diatonic music scale  .

雪落无声

e是答案