6.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 6,000-7,000languages 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 Center,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,found in libraries and stores around 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.

32.Many scholars are making efforts toB.
A.promote global language
B.rescue disappearing languages
C.search for language communities
D.set up language research organizations
33.What does"that tradition"in Paragraph 3refer to?A
A.Having full records of the languages.
B.Writing books on language teaching.
C.Telling stories about language users.
D.Living with the native speakers.
34.What is Turin's book based on?D
A.The cultural studies in India.
B.The documents available at Yale.
C.His language research in Bhutan.
D.His personal experience in Nepal.
35.Which of the following best describes Turin's work?D
A.Write,sell and donate.
B.Record,repair and reward.
C.Design,experiment and report.
D.Collect,protect and reconnect.

分析 本文屬于記敘文閱讀,敘述了學(xué)者們?nèi)缃裾谂τ涗洖l臨消失的語言和文化,來挽救這些語言.耶魯大學(xué)的科學(xué)家Mark Turin專門研究喜馬拉雅山的語言和口述傳統(tǒng),并且根據(jù)他自己在尼泊爾一個村莊的生活經(jīng)歷寫了一本書.他不只是滿足于把這些語言在滅絕前記錄下來,他要把他們挽救下來,并和現(xiàn)在的語言進行重新的連接.

解答 32.B  細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第二段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.可知許多學(xué)者正在努力記錄瀕臨消失的語言和文化,來挽救這些語言.故選B.
33.A  詞義猜測題.根據(jù)第三段But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.可知這些語言在沒有被記錄前就要消失了,所以這些學(xué)者對這些語言做的是最早的記錄.故選A.
34.D  推理判斷題.根據(jù)His recently published book,A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture,grows out of his experience living,looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.可知他的書是根據(jù)他在尼泊爾一個村莊中的生活經(jīng)歷寫的,故選D.
35.D  推理判斷題.根據(jù)最后一段available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected.以及Turin notes,the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.可知Turin的作品是從最初的材料上進行的收集,他的作品使瀕臨危險的語言得到了保護,并且與言語重新連接.因此對他的作品做好的描述是具有收集,保護和重新連接的作用.故選D.

點評 考查學(xué)生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力.做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確選擇.在做推理判斷題時不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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