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  3. Read the following article from a book and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or

Read the following article from a book and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or

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问题     Read the following article from a book and answer questions 19-25.
    For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
                        Home Is Where the Tongue Is
    For all the pressures and rewards of regionalization and globalization, local identities remain the most ingrained. Even if the end result of globalization is to make the world smaller, its scope seems to foster the need for more intimate local connections among many individuals. As Bernard Poignant, mayor of the town of Quimper in Brittany, told the Washington Post, "Man is a fragile animal and he needs his close attachments. The more open the world becomes, the more ties there will be to one’s roots and one’s land."
    In most communities, local languages such as Poignant’s Breton serve a strong symbolic function as a clear mark of "authenticity". The sum total of a community’s shared historical experience, authenticity reflects a perceived line from a culturally idealized past to the present, carried by the language and traditions associated with the community’s origins. A concern for authenticity leads most secular Israelis to champion Hebrew among themselves while also acquiring English and even Arabic. The same obsession with authenticity drives Hasidic Jews in Israel or the Diaspora to champion Yiddish while also learning Hebrew and English. In each case, authenticity amounts to a central core of cultural beliefs and interpretations that are not only resistant to globalization but also are actually reinforced by the "threat" that globalization seems to present to these historical values. Scholars may argue that cultural identities change over time in response to specific reward systems. But locals often resist such explanation and defend authenticity and local mother tongues against the perceived threat of globalization with near religious ardor.
    As a result, never before in history have there been as many standardized languages as there are today: roughly 1,200. Many smaller languages, even those with far fewer than one million speakers, have benefited from state-sponsored or voluntary preservation movements. On the most informal level, communities in Alaska and the American northwest have formed Internet discussion groups in an attempt to pass on Native American languages to younger generations. In the Basque, Catalan, and Galician regions of Spain, such movements arc fiercely political and frequently involve staunch resistance to the Spanish government over political and linguistic rights. Projects have ranged from a campaign to print Spanish money in the four official languages of the state to the creation of language immersion nursery and primary schools. Zapatistas in Mexico are championing the revival of Mayan languages in an equally political campaign for local autonomy.
    In addition to invoking the subjective importance of local roots, proponents of local languages defend their continued use on pragmatic grounds. Local tongues foster higher levels of school success, higher degrees of participation in local government, more informed citizenship, and better knowledge of one’s own culture, history, and faith. Government and relief agencies can also use local languages to spread information about industrial and agricultural techniques as well as modern health care to diverse audiences. Development workers in West Africa, for example, have found that the best way to teach the vast number of farmers with little or no formal education how to sow and rotate crops for higher yields is in these local tongues. Nevertheless, both regionalization and globalization require that more and more speakers and readers of local languages be multi-literate.
Locals’ resistance to the threat of globalization may result in ______.
选项 A、the revival of some dying languages
B、the increase of formal Internet communities
C、movements and projects to protect local rights
D、campaigns and champions of various groups
答案C
解析 这是一道细节推理题。根据“resistance”和“the threat of globalization”定位在第2段最后一句话。该句大意是“地方主义者反对这种解释(即上一句的scholars的观点)，近乎用类似宗教的热诚来捍卫血统的纯正性和母语免受全球化的威胁”，第3段用“as a result”把上下两段紧密联系起来。第3段列举了几个不同地方的人们和团体是如何捍卫血统的纯正性和母语免受全球化威胁的。综合两段内容，由此推理出C正确。
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