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The languages spoken by early Europeans are still shrouded in mystery. There is no linguistic continuity between the languag

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问题         The languages spoken by early Europeans are still shrouded in mystery. There is no
    linguistic continuity between the languages of Old Europe (a term sometimes used for
    Europe between 7000 and 3000 B.C.) and the languages of the modem world, and we
    cannot yet translate the Old European script, Scholars have deciphered other ancient
5   languages, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian, which used the cuneiform
    script, because of the fortuitous discovery of bilingual inscriptions, When cuneiform
    tablets were first discovered in the eighteenth century, scholars could not decipher them.
    Then inscriptions found in baa at the end of the eighteenth century provided a link: these
    inscriptions were written in cuneiform and in two other ancient languages, Old Persian
10  and New Elamite--languages that had already been deciphered. It took several decades,
    but scholars eventually translated the ancient cuneiform script via the more familiar
    Old Persian language:
        Similarly, the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians remained a mystery until French
    troops unearthed the famous Rosetta stone in the late eighteenth century. The stone carried
15  the same message written in ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Egyptian hieratic,
    a simplified form of hieroglyphs. The Rosetta stone thwarted scholars’ efforts for several
    decades until the early nineteenth century when several key hieroglyphic phrases were
    decoded using the Greek inscriptions. Unfortunately, we have no Old European Rosetta
    stone to chart correspondences between Old European script and the languages that
20  replaced it.
        Tim incursions of Indo-European tribes into Old Europe from the late fifth to the
    early third millennia B.C. caused a linguistic and cultural discontinuity. These incursions
    disrupted the Old European sedentary farming lifestyle that had existed for 3,000 years
    As the Indo-Europeans encroached on Old Europe from the east, the continent underwent
25  upheavals. These severely affected the Balkans, where the Old European cultures
    abundantly employed script. The Old European way of life deteriorated rapidly, although
    pockets of Old European culture remained for several millennia, ~ new peoples spoke
    completely different languages belonging to the Indo-European linguistic family. The
    Old European language or languages, and the script used to write them, declined and
    eventually vanished.
选项 A、Reasons for the failure to understand the written records of Old European culture
B、Influences on the development of Old European script
C、Similarities between Old European script and other ancient writing systems
D、Events leading to the discovery of Old European script
答案D
解析
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