12.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 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,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.
64.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.
65.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.
66.Which of the following best describes Turin's work?C
A.Write,sell and donate.
B.Record,repair and reward.
C.Collect,protect and reconnect.
D.Design,experiment and report.
分析 本文是一篇记叙文.叙述了学者们正在努力记录濒临消失的语言和文化,来挽救这些语言.耶鲁大学的科学家Mark Turin专门研究喜马拉雅山的语言和口述传统,并他根据自己在尼泊尔一个村庄的生活经历写了一本书.他不只是满足把这些语言在灭绝前记录下来,他要把他们挽救下来,和现在的语言进行重新的连接.
解答 64.A.细节理解题.根据文章第一段But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.可知这些语言在没有记录前就要消失了,所以这些学者对这些语言做的是最早的记录.故选A.
65.D.细节理解题.根据文章第四段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.可知他的书是根据他在尼泊尔一个村庄的生活经历写的.故选D.
66.C.推理判断题.根据文章最后一段Generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected.和Turin notes,the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.可知Turin的作品是从最初的材料上进行的收集,他的作品使濒临危险的语言得到了保护,并且与言语重新连接.因此对他的作品做好的描述是具有收集,保护和重新连接的作用.故选C.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.