184.Codex Berinensis, a Florentine copy of an ancient Roman medical treatise, is undated but contains clues to when it was produced. Its first eighty pages are by a single copyist, but the remaining twenty pages are by three different copyists, which indicate some significant disruption. Since a letter in handwriting identified as that of the fourth copyist mentions a plague that killed many people in Florence in 1148, Codex Berinensis was probably produced in that year.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the hypothesis that codex Berinensis was produced in 1148?

(A) Other than Codex Berinensis, there are no known samples of the handwriting of the first three copyists.

(B) According to the account by the fourth copyists, the plague went on for ten months.

(C) A scribe would be able to copy a page of text the size and style of Codex Berinensis in a day.

(D) There was only one outbreak of plague in LACE w:st="on">FlorenceLACE> in the 1100’s. D

(E) The number of pages of Codex Berinnesis produced by a single scribe becomes smaller with each successive change of copyist.

选D 。。。想不通勒。。。谢谢大侠^_^

（E）选项什么意思啊？是说由一个人撰写的抄本页数比由多个人撰写的抄本页数少吗？

正确答案选项必须要有" plague "

A\C\E选项都是明显的无关选项.

B选项是干扰选项,但对题干的论证关系没有产生作用。