请教一道阅读题(2004.1-----27)

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Question 22-31

    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.

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 Rosett stone was unearthed  

           

(C) As soon as additional bilingual inscriptions became available to scholars

                        

(D) A few decades after the hieratic script was decoded

answer:  A

请问从文中那里可以看出答案？谢谢！！！

盈盈绿茶

look here:

in the first paragraph:

Then inscriptions found in baa at the end of the eighteenth century provided a link:

in the second paragraph:

Similarly, the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians remained a mystery until French

  troops unearthed the famous Rosetta stone in the late eighteenth century.

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