(一)TheDayaLanguageDied回答下列问题:WhenCariosWestezdiedattheageof76,alanguagedied

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共享题干题                                (一)The Day a Language Died      回答下列问题:     When Carios Westez died at the age of 76, a language died, too. Westez, more monly 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 the Catawba language. The language that people used to speak is gone forever.   We are all aware of the danger that modern industry can cause 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 bee powerful languages as well. As these languages bee more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increases. As well, ________(47)When this happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out.     Scholars believe there are around 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, 100 languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, are dying out.    Red Thunder Cloud was one of the first to recognize the danger 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 for the rest of us when a language disappears? When a plant insect or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what has been lost and to 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, must be a peculiarly 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.As these languages bee more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increa B.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the languag C.Papus New Guines is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ). D.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the worlE.Some people might want to learn some of these songs by heartF.These languages don't have many native speakerABCDEF确定 2.[不定向选择题]________A.As these languages bee more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increa B.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the languag C.Papus New Guines is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ). D.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the worlE.Some people might want to learn some of these songs by heartF.These languages don't have many native speakerABCDEF确定

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1.参考答案:D
参考解析:空格前讲作为一种语言最后一位使用者,感到非常多孤独,那空格处可能会谈到其他人的感受,在剩下的选项中,只有D项“对于我们其他人来说,当一种语言消失,我们失去的可能性,以其独特的方式观察和描述这个世界。”符合文意。
2.参考答案:A
参考解析:空格后讲少部分人讲的大量的不同的语言日渐消失,和A项正好相符。3.[不定向选择题]________A.As these languages bee more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increa B.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the languag C.Papus New Guines is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ). D.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the worlE.Some people might want to learn some of these songs by heartF.These languages don't have many native speakerABCDEF确定
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