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.
The KEY is E. Why yah? My answer is B.

“因果关系资料正确”：

E说骨头确实有可能是乐器的一部分（E. The cave-bear leg bonebeen long enough to make a flute capable of playing a complete diatonic scale.）

或者看做是“假设型支持”--E将骨头和乐器联系起来

感觉是这样

文中N时代bone中的Hole可满足演奏D的要求，这个D是used in much of

Western music ，结论D was developed and used thousands of years

before it was adopted by Western musicians.

答案E说明了Bone确实能够满足演奏D的要求。

属于资料准确的支持。

而B中的比较时间对象为 Neanderthal campsite，与文中结论没有关系.

不知对否，请指教