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Question 22-31Archaeological discoveries have led some scholars to believe that the first Mesopotamianinventors of writing may have been a people the later Babylonians called Subarians. According totradition, they came from the north and moved into Uruk in the south. By about 3100B.C, Theywere apparently subjugated in southern Mesopotamia by the Sumerians, whose name became(5) synonymous with the region immediately north of the Persian Gulf, in the fertile lower valleys of theTigris and Euphrates. Here the Sumerians were already well established by the year 3000B.C.They had invented bronze, an alloy that could be cast in molds, out of which they made tools andweapons. They lived in cities, and they had begun to acquire and use capital. Perhaps mostimportant, the Sumerians adapted writing (probably from the Subarians) into a flexible tool of(10)communication.Archacologists have known about the Sumerians for over 150 years. Archacologists working atNineveh in northern Mesopotamia in the mid-nineteenth century found many inscribed clay tablets.Some they could decipher because the language was a Semitic one (Akkadian), on which scholarshad already been working for a generation. But other tablets were inscribed in another language(15)that was not Semitic and previously unknown. Because these inscriptions mad reference to theking of Sumer and Akkad, a scholar suggested that the mew language be called Sumerian.But it was not until the 1890's that archaeologists excavating in city-states well to the south o fNieveh found many thousands of tablets inscribed in Sumerian only. Because the Akkadiansthought of Sumerian as a classical language (as ancient Greek and Latin are considered today),(20)they taught it to educated persons and they inscribed vocabulary, translation exercised, and otherstudy aids on tablets. Working from known Akkadian to previously unknown Sumerian, scholarssince the 1890's have learned how to read the Sumerian language moderately well. Vast quantitiesof tablets in Sumerian have been unearthed during the intervening years from numerous sites.
22. According to the passage, the inventors of written language in Mesopotamia were probably the
(A) Babylonians
(B) Subarians
(C) Akkadians
(D) Sumerians

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(0),B(2),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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