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In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved blank use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? A) widespread B) careful C) unintended D) infrequent

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In the early 1800s, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved blank use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? A) widespread B) careful C) unintended D) infrequent

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The most logical and precise word to complete the text would be "widespread". This is because the text mentions that over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it by 1830, indicating that the use of the script was common or widespread among the Cherokee people. Therefore, the completed sentence would read: "Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved widespread use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it."

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