A person in Beijing can describe what happens in Australia; similarly, a 21st-century person can talk about events in ancient times. This demonstrates that language possesses the design feature of ______.

A．that students were not given an opportunity to study women writers outside the canon
B．that little scholarly work has been clone on the work of Elizabeth Griffith
C．that most of the students in the course had had little opportunity to study eighteenth-century literature
D．that students were not given an opportunity to encounter certain sources of information that could prove useful in their future studies

A．revealing a commonly ignored deficiency
B．proposing a return to traditional terminology
C．describing an attempt to correct a shortcoming
D．assessing the success of a new pedagogical approach