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Which is NOT a factor indicated for the likely extinction of some languages?
Which is NOT a factor indicated for the likely extinction of some languages?
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2021-03-19
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问题
Which is NOT a factor indicated for the likely extinction of some languages?
While approximately 7,000 languages are spoken in the world today, only about half are expected to survive this century. A number of factors contribute to this loss: increasing globalization, which pushes countries and individuals to shift to national or international languages for economic reasons; lack of support for regional languages in educational systems and mass media; persecution of minority linguistic groups by governments and disruption of communities during war and emigration.
It is difficult to predict the future for any particular language. While some minority languages will thrive for generations to come, many of the world’s languages are moving towards extinction within a generation.
One stressor that may be the tipping point for some communities is climate change. Many small linguistic communities are located on islands and coastlines vulnerable to hurricanes and a rise in sea levels. Other communities are settled on lands where increases in temperature and fluctuations in precipitation can threaten traditional farming and fishing practices.
These changes will force communities to relocate, creating climate change refugees. The resultant dispersal of people will lead to the splintering of linguistic communities and increased contact with other languages. These changes will place additional pressures on languages that are already struggling to survive.
When a language is lost, the result can be a loss of identity, one that may impact the health and vitality of a community for generations to come. The importance of the connection between language and identity can be seen here in Canada.
The loss of a language is also a loss of data needed to better understand human cognition, as happens when a language disappears before its structures and patterns have been documented. It is a loss of knowledge about the world as well, as when descriptive names for plants or practices — still unknown outside a local area — are forgotten.
选项
A、Language has a close connection with the identity of a community.
B、Language can help us better understand human cognition.
C、Language is a carrier of human wisdom.
D、Language should be documented before it is forgotten.
答案
D
解析
因果关系判断。根据原文最后两段的论述可知,语言与群体身份有密不可分的关系,并且是承载人类认知的载体,我们可以借助语言来更好地认识人类以及世界。选项A、B和C所述均符合原文。选项D不是语言之所以重要的原因,原文只是指出“The loss of a language is also a loss of data needed to better understand human cognition, as happens when a language disappears before its structures and patterns have been documented”,即如果一种语言在其结构和模式被记录下来之前就灭绝了,这个数据就消失了。因此答案为选项D。
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