【变态题】OG12-122

instinctwu

The spacing of the four holes on a fragment of a bone fl ute 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 fl utes 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 fl ute found at the Neanderthal campsite.
(C) The fl ute was made from a cave-bear bone and the campsite at which the fl ute 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 fl ute would have been long enough to make a fl ute
capable of playing a complete diatonic scale.

答案是E，看了几个讨论帖还是没看懂为什么E对？BD错在哪了？

annazyan

来试试： 第一句话我直接理解为bone flute can do diatonic scale.  

专家们的假设(即conclusion）是: diatonic scale年代久远，在西方音乐

家使用前就存在了上千年了。 中间的确差个环节。 diatonic scale= 年代

久远 而第一句话 可以表示为bone flute = diatonic sacle 所以 这个

bone 就必须满足 年代久远这个条件 即E的 long enough.

B : B说“已知木有MI比bone 更久远” 但并不能说明 bone 很久远。
D：D的主语是flute, 不是逻辑强调的重点。

重点就是bone 要年代久远。

欢迎NN指正。

风行GMR

这道题我看了很多讨论，大家多数忽略了第一句话中spacing，fragment 这两个词
第一个词我理解的是孔距
第二个词我觉得需要注意一下，他指出这个被挖掘的骨笛不是完整的，只显示了7个音阶中的第三到第六个
B选项指写出骨笛久远，但是没有说明他是能够吹奏全音阶的
而D选项同小法的分析

只有E选项，挖掘历史文物可以证明时间的久远，而这种熊的腿骨的自然长度（不是挖掘出得骨笛的长度）足够长，长到有足够的spacing of diatonic scale
证明呢，挖掘出得骨笛本来很可能是全音阶的，由此很好的证明音乐学家的假设

bodkicker

结论对象是说diatonic scale出现在欧洲音乐之前。
B说，flute是最早的diatonic scale，这是无关比较，拿flute和其它的diatonic比较。
D说，flute是最小的乐器，也是无关比较。
E是一种有因的加强方式。