2017年吉林高考英语完型填空专题模拟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.
【要点综述】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章叙述了学者们正在努力记录濒临消失的语言和文化，以挽救这些语言和文化。耶鲁大学的科学家Mark Turin专门研究喜马拉雅山脉的语言和口述传统，并根据他自己在尼泊尔一个村庄的生活经历写了一本书。他不只是满足于把这些语言在灭绝前记录下来，他还要把它们挽救下来，和使用某种语言的社区进行重新连接。
32. B 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“In an effort to prevent language loss…”可知，许多学者正在努力记录濒临消失的语言和文化，以挽救这些语言和文化。故选B。
33. A 词义猜测题。根据第四段中的“But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.”可知Mark Turin对这些语言做的是全面的记录。故选A。
34. D 推理判断题。根据第三段的“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，他的书是根据他在尼泊尔一个村庄的生活经历写的。故选D。
35. C 推理判断题。根据最后一段的“…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的作品是从最初的材料上进行的收集，且其作品使濒临危险的语言得到了保护，并且与使用某种语言的社区重新连接。故选C。
