2017年吉林高考英語完型填空專題模擬18

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, 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 to ________.

A. promote global languages

B. rescue disappearing languages

C. search for language communities

D. set up language research organizations

33. What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

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?

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?

A. Write, sell and donate.

B. Record, repair and reward.

C. Collect, protect and reconnect.

D. Design, experiment and report.

【要點綜述】 本文是一篇記敘文。文章敘述了學者們正在努力記錄瀕臨消失的語言和文化，以挽救這些語言和文化。耶魯大學的科學家Mark Turin專門研究喜馬拉雅山脈的語言和口述傳統(tǒng)，并根據(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，他還要把它們挽救下來，和使用某種語言的社區(qū)進行重新連接。

32. B　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中的“In an effort to prevent language loss…”可知，許多學者正在努力記錄瀕臨消失的語言和文化，以挽救這些語言和文化。故選B。

33. A　詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第四段中的“But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.”可知Mark Turin對這些語言做的是全面的記錄。故選A。

34. D　推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段的“His recently published book, A Grammer 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.”可知，他的書是根據(jù)他在尼泊爾一個村莊的生活經(jīng)歷寫的。故選D。

35. C　推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段的“…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的作品是從最初的材料上進行的收集，且其作品使瀕臨危險的語言得到了保護，并且與使用某種語言的社區(qū)重新連接。故選C。