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?
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? (A) Bone flutes were probably the only musical instrument made by Neanderthals. (B) No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatonic scale is of an earlier date than the flute found at the Neanderthal campsite. (C) 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. (D) Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allow playing a diatonic scale. (E) 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.
1、题目的关键,是骨笛上的4个洞音阶,是否就能说明尼安德特人已经在使用7个音阶的diatonic scale,如果是,则musicologists的假设就是正确的。E项说明骨头够7个洞那么长,增加了该骨笛原来有7个洞的可能性,是support 2、至于B,讨论的关键是时间,而非音阶。of an earlier date没有发现全音阶的乐器,跟发掘出的骨笛是否是全音阶的没有关系 3、你的取非法有瑕疵:由于B项所说内容不是题干的充分必要条件,就算B取非能削弱原题,也不能说明B支持原题。 4、即使你的取非法合理:把B取非,说明有更早的,“非B”还是支持原题的thousands of years ago。原题只是想说在西方音乐家之前老早就有人用全音阶乐器来,并没有纠结究竟是1000年前还是几千年前。