（一）TheDayaLanguageDied根据材料，完成下列的问题。WhenCarlosWestezdiedattheageof76,alangua

共享题干题 （一）The Day a Language Died 根据材料，完成下列的问题。 When Carlos 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 the 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 theCatawba 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 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 languages, as well.________（47）.When this happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few 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, 100languages, 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 something 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 been lost and to appreciate what this means for the balance of the natural word.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）1.[不定向选择题]________A.Some people might want to try to learn some of these songs by hear B.Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different languages, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ). C.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the languag D.These language don't have many native speakerE.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the worlF.As these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increaABCDEF确定 2.[不定向选择题]________A.Some people might want to try to learn some of these songs by hear B.Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different languages, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ). C.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the languag D.These language don't have many native speakerE.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the worlF.As these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increaABCDEF确定

1.参考答案：E
参考解析：空格前讲到一些语言的残存，只有E项“对于我们其余的人，当一门语言失传了，我们失去的观察和描述这个世界的独特方式的可能性”符合文意。
2.参考答案：A
参考解析：空格前讲到红十字会为子孙后代录了一系列歌曲，只有A项“有些人可能想尝试用心来学习其中的一些歌曲”符合上下文意。3.[不定向选择题]________A.Some people might want to try to learn some of these songs by hear B.Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different languages, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ). C.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the languag D.These language don't have many native speakerE.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the worlF.As these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increaABCDEF确定

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