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The science of linguistics has helped to reconstruct the long road the ancestors of modern day Indians traveled in North America

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问题    The science of linguistics has helped to reconstruct the long road the ancestors of modern day Indians traveled in North America. At the time of the discovery of the New World, line explorers found a babel of tongues. In North and South America more languages were spoken—about 2, 200 of them—than all of Europe and Asia at that time. Despite what some early explorers and European scholars believed, there never was such a language as "American Indian"—meaning, presumably, one common language with only local dialects. Rather than one common language that linked the Indians of North America, about 550 distinct languages were spoken, and nearly every language comprised numerous dialects. A second misconception was that a language had to be written to rank as a full-fledged language. In North America, a truly written language developed only in Mexico, yet most Indian groups were able to communicate a rich unwritten tradition of poetry, oratory, and drama.
An incorrect belief of some early scholars was that ______.
选项 A、550 distinct languages were spoken in North America
B、the American Indian language had many dialects
C、more languages were spoken in North America than in Europe
D、to be a real language, a language had to be written
答案D
解析 细节题。倒数第二句说到“A second misconception was that a language had to be written to rank as a full-fledged language.”第二个错误的认识是一种语言要被称为一种真正的语言，必须具有书写形式。所以选D。
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