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Imagine the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at 89. She was the last person
Imagine the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at 89. She was the last person
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2016-11-20
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Imagine the solitude felt by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska, at 89. She was the last person who knew the language of the Eyak people as a mother-tongue. Or imagine Ned Mandrell, who died in 1974—he was the last native speaker of Manx. In remote parts of the world, dozens more people are on the point of taking to their graves a system of communication that will never be recorded or reconstructed.
Should anyone lose sleep over the fact that many tongues are in danger of suffering a similar fate? Compared with groups who advocate saving animals or trees, campaigners who advocate preserving languages are themselves a rare breed. But they are trying both to impede and publicize an alarming acceleration in the rate at which languages are vanishing. Of some 6, 900 tongues spoken in the world today, some 50% to 90% could be gone by the end of the century. In Africa, at least 300 languages are in near-term danger, and 200 more have died recently or are on the verge of death. Some 145 languages are threatened in East and South-east Asia.
Some languages even face a threat in the shape of political power bent on imposing a majority tongue. A youngster in any part of France soon realized that whatever you spoke at home, mastering French was the key to success. Nor did English reach its present global status without ruthless tactics. In years past, Americans, Canadians and Australians took native children away from their families to be raised at boarding schools where English rules.
The result is a growing list of tongues spoken only by white-haired elders. For instance, Njerep, one of 31 endangered languages in Cameroon, reportedly has only four speakers left, all over 60. The valleys of the Cauncansus used to be a paradise for linguists in search of unusual syntax, but Ubykh, one of the region’s mysterious tongues, officially expired in 1992.
What led to Marie Smith’s solitude?
选项
A、The language she spoke will never be recorded.
B、People around her could not understand her.
C、She’s a native of Alaska but lives far away from it.
D、She’ s the last person having Eyak as mother-tongue.
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词Marie Smith’s solitude定位至第一段。由本段前两句“Imaginethe solitude felt,by Marie Smith before she died earlier this year in her native Alaska,at 89.She was the last personwho knew the language of the Eyak people as a mother一tongue.”可知Marie Smith感到孤独是由于除了她之外没有掌握埃亚克人母语的人了,故D正确。A文中未提及;B干扰最大,文中讲到她是最后一位掌握埃亚克人母语的人,但并不意味着没人懂她的语言,而且由后文可知她和周围人是可以交流的,故排除;C文中未提及。
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