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flyever98

122. The spacing of the four holes on afragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite is just what isrequired to play the third through sixth notes of the diatonic scale—theseven-note musical scale used in much of Western music since the Renaissance. Musicologiststherefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and usedthousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
Which of the following, if true, moststrongly supports the hypothesis?
(A) Bone flutes were probably the onlymusical instrument  made by Neanderthals.
(B) No musical instrument that is known to have used a diatonic scale is ofan earlier date than the flute found at the Neanderthal campsite.
(C) The flute was made from a cave-bearbone and the campsite at which the flute fragment was excavated was in a cavethat also contained skeletal remains of cave bears.
(D) Flutes are the simplest wind instrument that can be constructed to allowplaying a diatonic scale.
(E) The cave-bear leg bone used to make theNeanderthal flute would have been long enough to make a flute capable ofplaying a complete diatonic scale.
这道题的答案是E。但是觉得没办法理解，E到底是什么意思呢？

cindytaurus

就是说某地出土了笛子的部分残片，上面有几个洞洞，能吹出3~6音阶of

全音阶——即7音阶，在文艺复兴后西方被广泛使用。所以就推测全音阶在几

千年前就使用并发展起来了。
E是说被用来做笛子的熊骨头足够长，长到可以用来完成全音阶。
这就是一个加强，你想，如果这个熊骨头不能完成全音阶，那么就代表这段能

吹出3~6音阶的残片的原型不是能吹出7音阶的笛子么？再反过来想下，的确有

加强的意味在里面（通过加强premise来加强conclusion）~~咳咳、、表达的

不大好，希望能帮到你，这题我也纠结了好半天的说~~

flyever98

我现在还是有点纠结，我再想想哈~

louisehu

请问一下B为何不行呢，把B取非，就是说有被发现的比在Neanderthal更早的全音阶乐器，那不就说明西方音乐起源于更早而非1000多年前了吗，削弱了原题，所以B应该是support了啊