As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000--7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations--UNESCO and National Geographic among them--have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes--which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded–the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project--Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

1.Many scholars are making efforts to ______.

A. promote global languages

B. set up language research organizations.

C. search for language communities

D. rescue disappearing languages

2.What does “that tradition’ in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Telling stories about language users

B. Writing books on language teaching.

C. Having full records of the languages

D. Living with the native speaker.

3.What is Turin’s book based on?

A. The cultual studies

B. The documents available at Yale.

C. His language research in Bhutan.

D. His personal experience in Nepal.

4.Which of the following best describe Turin’s work?

A.Write, sell and donate.

B. Collect, protect and reconnect.

C. Record, repair and reward.

D. Design, experiment and report.

1.D

2.C

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析:文章主要講述的是有很多語言正在消亡這一現(xiàn)象。除了英語、漢語、西班牙語和阿拉伯語之外,其它的語言正在快速消失。為了減少語言的損失,專家們正在努力記錄正在消亡的語言。

1.other languages are rapidly disappearing”可知,全世界有很多語言正在快速地消失;根據(jù)第二段“In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars...have for many years been documenting dying languages”可知,專家們正在努力挽救正在消亡的語言,故選D。

2.scholars...have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect”可知,專家們把面臨消亡的語言和它所反映的文化記錄下來,Turin就是這樣的專家之一,由此可知,劃線部分指的是詳細(xì)記錄處于消亡中的語言,故選C。

3.His recently published book...grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal”可知,Turin的書是以他在尼泊爾的生活和工作為基礎(chǔ)的,故選D。

4.from whom the materials were originally collected...the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities”可知,Turin的工作是收集正在消亡的語言并加以保護(hù),再通過數(shù)字技術(shù)和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)把收集起來的語言和當(dāng)?shù)氐恼Z言使用者分享,故選B。

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