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williams

122The 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?

A. Bone flutes were probably the only musical instrument made by Neanderthals.
B. 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.
C. 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.
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 flute would have been long enough to make a flute capable of playing a complete diatonic scale.
答案是e。但是我连题目也看不懂阿··能帮忙解释一下题目的意思吗？谢谢

piacia

就是题大意就是说从 Neanderthal 这个地方挖出来的骨头碎片跟文艺复兴时用的
flute编出来的musical scale 一样，所以Musicologists就认为musical scale 在很久前就用
的（在文艺复兴前）

个人之见E就是说Neanderthal这个地方发现的cave-bear 遗骸的长度正好够弄出来个完整的musical scale ，不就正好支持了题目吗，其它选项的都很扯。。。