首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、Reaching only nineteen percent of the world’s population. B、Neglecting a great majority of the world’s languages. C、Having too
A、Reaching only nineteen percent of the world’s population. B、Neglecting a great majority of the world’s languages. C、Having too
admin
2017-12-08
67
问题
M: Sally, I heard from the radio that over half the world’s seven thousand languages are in danger of disappearing. Every two weeks one language disappears.
W: So fast?
M: Yes, so Mr. Harrison and Mr. Anderson are heading Living Tongues, an organization to study and protect endangered languages.
W: Why do these languages disappear?
M: Sometimes a language disappears immediately when the last person speaking it dies. Or, a local language might disappear more slowly. This happens when an official language is used more often and children stop learning the local language of their parents. This is not a new process. Official languages often represent a form of control over a group of people.
W: Can you explain it a bit further?
M: Throughout history, the language spoken by a powerful group spreads across a civilization. The more powerful culture rarely respects the language and culture of smaller ethnic groups. So, smaller cultures lose their local language as the language of the culture in power becomes the stronger influence.
W: I can see your point now.
M: The Internet could be thought of as a new method of language control. The United Nations cultural organization, UNESCO, says that ninety percent of the world’s languages are not represented on the Internet.
W: I guess we do need to protect these languages.
M: Experts say protecting languages is very important for many reasons. Languages contain the histories, ideas and knowledge of a culture. Languages also contain valuable information about local medicines, plants and animals. Bringing back threatened languages is not easy, but it is very important work.
W: No doubt.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. What is the organization Living Tongues aimed at?
2. Why do some cultures lose their local languages?
3. What is the Internet blamed for?
4. What does the speakers stress in the end?
选项
A、Reaching only nineteen percent of the world’s population.
B、Neglecting a great majority of the world’s languages.
C、Having too little influence on cultural exchange.
D、Containing too much worthless information.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EET7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Indepartmentstoresandclosetsallovertheworld,theyarewaiting.Theiroutwardappearanceseemsratherappealingbecauset
Indepartmentstoresandclosetsallovertheworld,theyarewaiting.Theiroutwardappearanceseemsratherappealingbecauset
Indepartmentstoresandclosetsallovertheworld,theyarewaiting.Theiroutwardappearanceseemsratherappealingbecauset
Peoplecannowavoidhavingtosortthroughalbumsfromseveraldifferentfriendswhentryingtoreliveparties,weddingsandot
OurculturehascausedmostAmericanstoassumenotonlythatourlanguageisuniversal,butthatthegesturesweuseareunders
Womenwhodrankthreeormorecupsofcoffeeadaywere30percentlesslikelytohavememorydeclineatage65thanwhosewhod
Womenwhodrankthreeormorecupsofcoffeeadaywere30percentlesslikelytohavememorydeclineatage65thanwhosewhod
Tsunamis[A]UpuntilDecemberof2004,thephenomenonoftsunamiwasnotonthemindsofmostoftheworld’spopulation.Tha
随机试题
Oneofthemoreimportantcommunicativetasksmayconfrontatraveler.Thatisthe【B1】______ofwhenaspeakerhassaid"no".Th
护士小王是某手术的器械护士,手术前进行外科手消毒,下列做法正确的是
A.右肺下叶球形、分叶状块影,边缘有毛刺。患者无发热,有刺激性咳嗽B.右肺下叶球形病灶,周围有卫星灶,可见钙化。患者无发热,有盗汗及乏力C.左肺门块影,肿块轮廓不规整,左主支气管壁增厚,纵隔淋巴结肿大,患者有声音嘶哑D.石肺上叶大片状密度均匀一
目前烤瓷修复技术已成为临床主要修复手段之一。在金属熔附烤瓷时,其金瓷匹配是十分关键的,其主要涉及的因素包括常用的非贵金属烤瓷合金是
工程建设项目的经济评价主要分()。
苏联教育家马卡连柯提倡的“平行教育影响”就是通过集体去影响个体。()
下列关于供给侧改革的说法错误的是()。
求下列极限:
设(X,Y)的概率密度为求的数学期望.
设有下列的程序段;charstr[]="Hello";char*ptr;ptr=str;执行上面的程序段后,*(ptr+5)的值为______。
最新回复
(
0
)