Question

    Each year on Feb 21,UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day (IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.

What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost—not just sounds and words but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Killing a language means all these are killed too.

Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it. Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload (上传) texts, audios (音频) and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.

The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes (部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.

These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep languages alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and use social media (媒体) to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the world.

So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother languages. This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart."

1.What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?

A.They provided books on communication skills.

B.They discussed how to make good use of the Internet.

C.They shared materials about endangered languages online.

D.They translated endangered languages into mother languages.

2.The word "revive" in Paragraph 4 probably means "________."

A.start reusing B.remember choosing

C.try creating D.continue experimenting

3.What can we infer from Paragraph 5?

A.The disappearance of languages has already stopped.

B.It's impossible for young people to protect languages.

C.Fewer and fewer people work to keep languages alive.

D.Young people have creative ways to protect languages.

4.The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to ________.

A.express his thought of language protection

B.stress the importance of one's mother language

C.tell the trouble in learning endangered languages

D.remind us of the problem of disappearing languages

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

本文介绍了谷歌的2018濒危语言项目和The Myaamia项目保护濒危语言，复兴消失的语言。

1.

推理判断题。根据“Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload (上传) texts, audios (音频) and videos to the project website.”可知，谷歌的2018濒危语言项目就是一个很好的例子。许多濒危语言的使用者和保护者将文本、音频和视频上传到该计划的网站上。因此人们在网上分享濒危语言的资料。故选C。

2.

词义猜测题。start reusing开始重新使用，remember choosing记得选择；try creating 尝试创建；continue experimenting继续试验。根据“Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.”可知，这种语言已经消失了，因此努力在复兴这种语言。故选A。

3.

推理判断题。根据“Many young people design apps and use social media (媒体) to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the world. ”可知，年轻人有保护语言的创新方法。故选D。

4.

推理判断题。根据“We all have a special feeling of our mother languages.”我们都对母语有特殊的情感。根据“This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart."”可知，纳尔逊·曼德拉说过：“如果你用一个人能听懂的语言与他交谈，那会进入他的大脑。如果你用一个人的母语和他交谈，那就会进入他的心里。”因此，此处强调母语非常重要。故选B。