[求助]2004.1的阅读疑问

    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

Line 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.

22. What does the passage mainly         

    discuss?                              

    (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     

答案是D，我觉得应该是A，因为前面就是说另外的语言怎么被decode .来解释为什么

Old European不能被翻译

27. When does the passage suggest         
     that ancient Egyptian hieroglypttic         
     script was finally deciphered?
                                          
     (A) At around the same time            
            as cuneiform script was           
            deciphered                     
     (B) Shortly before the Rosetta
            stone was unearthed            
    (C) As soon as additional                  
            bilingual inscriptions            
            became available to
            scholars                        
    (D) A few decades after the                 
            hieratic script was decoded

答案是A。我觉得是C。感觉C 更好些。

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.感觉这儿应该是答案所在。哪个cuneiform script 只在上段提到的。

这儿available不应该只是得到的意思，应该有“可用的”的意思

For decades, scientists wondered how the offspring of an alga and a fungus got together to form a new lichen,

这个句子里面说到了这个意思。。觉得还是B比较正确。。

22，27非常赞同你的看法。

27题古埃及的ancient Egyptian hieroglypttic         
     script 有三种语言，应该算是是trilingual inscriptions 。

           文章在前面提到bilingual inscriptions，但说的是科学家以此破译了苏美尔，阿卡迪亚和巴比伦的语言。

所以还是倾向于选A