A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek play wright Euripides. Of these, ten called the "select plays," are accompanied in L by ancient commentaries and also apprea in other medieval manuscripts; this group includes some of Euripides' best-known works, including the Medea. The other eight, which appear in alphabetical order, without commentary. The Electra is one of the alphabeticals.

Which of the following can be reliably concluded on the basis of the Statements given?

A. Only Euripides' best-known works are accompanied by ancient commentaries in extant medieval manuscripts.

B.The select plays are accompanied by ancient commentaries because they were the best known of Euripides' works.

C.No commentaries were written about Euripides' Electra in ancient times.

D.Euripides' Medea never appears in medieval manuscripits unaccompanied by ancient commentary.

E.Euripides' Electra does not appear accompanied by a commentary in any extant medieval manuscript.

答案是E，但C和D让我很困惑，哪位NN指点一下？打字好累也。。。

C是错的，因为有可能在古代人们做过注释，只是无法保留到现在。

D也是错的，原因同上

E对是因为它用extant manuscript作了时间上的限定

L有18本悲剧

10本有评注，其他书里也有，代表有：medea

8本没评注，只有数字，代表有：Eltrca

E：8本只有数字，没有评注，其他地方也不会有。

C和D都太过绝对

不敢说没有过，从文章的逻辑线里也推不出这一点

但是这题也有点小漏洞，文章要得出E这个结论的前提事，L这本书是最全的，涵盖有所有的以往的评述

否则E的成立会有点问题，但是矮子里面E是个最好的答案