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共用题干 The Day a Language DiedWhen Carios
共用题干 The Day a Language DiedWhen Carios
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2019-12-17
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共用题干The Day a Language Died
When Carios Westez died at the age of 76,a language died,too.Westez,more commonly known as
Red Thunder Cloud,was the last speaker of the Native American language,Catawba.Anyone who wants to hear various songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C.,where,back in the 1940s,Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations.______(46)They are all that is left of the Catawba language.The language that.people used to speak is gone forever.
We are all aware of the damage that modern industry can do to the world's ecology(生态).However, few people are aware of the impact that widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over the world.Chinese,Spanish,Russian,and Hindi have become powerful langua- ges,as well.______(47)When this happens,hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few peo- pie die out.
Scholars believe there are about 6,000 languages around the world,but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years.There are many examples.Araki is a native language of the island of Vanuatu,located in the Pacific Ocean.It is spoken by only a few older adults,so like Catawba,Araki will soon disappear.Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers.______(48)In the Americas,100 languages,each of which has fewer than 300 speakers,also are dying out.
Red Thunder Cloud was one of the first to recognize the threat of language death and to try to do some-thing about it.He was not actually born into the Catawba.tribe,and the language was not his mother tongue.______(49)The songs he sang for the Smithsonian Institution helped to make Native American music popular.Now he is gone,and the language is dead.
What does it mean when a language disappears?When a plant or insect or animal species dies,it is easy to understand what we've lost and to appreciate what this means for the balance of the natural world.
However,language is only a product of the mind.To be the last remaining speaker of a language,like Red Thunder Cloud,must be a lonely destiny,almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species.______(50)
选项
______(46)A:As these languages become more powerful,their use as tools of business and culture increases.B:For the rest of us,when a language dies,we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.C:These languages don't have many native speakers.D:However,he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carolina,where he learned the language.E:Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different languages,but more than 100 of them are ir danger of extinction(灭绝).F:Some people might want to try to learn some of these songs by heart.
答案
F
解析
前一句介绍的内容为RedThunderCloud为后代人录制了一系列用卡托巴语演唱的歌曲。后一句也是关于歌曲的内容因此此空应填F。 前一句提到了几种被广泛使用的语言,并根据其中的powerfullanguage和后一句的内容可知,此处应为对这些主流语言应用的进一步阐述,故选A。 前一句说埃塞俄比亚的很多种语言因为被很少一部分人讲而面临着与卡托巴语一样的命运。后一句说美国有100种语言因各自的使用者少于300人也濒临消亡。所以空中的内容应与前后的内容并列,即讲某个地区濒危语言的情况,故选E。 前一句提到卡托巴语并不是RedThunderCloud的母语,之后的内容描述的是RedThunderCloud为此语种所做的贡献,因此此处的内容应为他如何学到了这种语言,而且要用转折语气,故选D。 文章最后一段的内容主要论述一种语言消亡后的结果,故选B。
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