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Every two weeks a language disappears. By 2100 nearly half of the 6,000 spoken today may be gone. Migration, either between coun

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问题     Every two weeks a language disappears. By 2100 nearly half of the 6,000 spoken today may be gone. Migration, either between countries or from the countryside to cities, is one reason; though new arrivals generally stick with their mother tongue, at least at home, their children rarely do. The dominance of English is another. But one tongue against the trend is Romani, spoken by 4m of the roughly 11m Roma people worldwide. Its health attests to the importance of language in shaping identity.
    Unlike most languages, Romani has no country to call home. Its roots lie in India, but since the 10th century its speakers have scattered and kept moving. One result is that they are everywhere a linguistic minority. Another is that 150 different dialects are in use. "Anglo-Romani", spoken in Britain, differs widely from dialects in France, Bulgaria and Latvia. One Roma man in New Zealand speaks a dialect previously only heard in Wales.
    The 290,000 native Swedish speakers in Finland show no signs of dropping their language—but it is their country’s second official one, compulsory in all schools and spoken by 9. 5m Swedes next door. Irish hangs on partly because of government spending on translating road signs and documents, broadcasting, teaching and extra marks for brave students who use the tongue in their final school exams.
    But without a government to champion it, Romani is used mostly in the home. Academics and linguists have written it down and tried to standardise it, but many of those who speak it do not read it. America printed a Romani guide to its 2000 census form, but that is a rarity; it almost never features in official documents.
    The lack of texts complicates attempts to teach it formally. Roma Kulturklass, a Swedish Romani-language school, is one of a handful in the world. Its 35 pupils study everything except Swedish and English in both Romani and Swedish. But with few textbooks, says Angelina Dimiter Taikon, the head teacher, staff must make do with their own translations.
We learn from the first paragraph that ______.
选项 A、children nowadays seldom speak mother tongue at home
B、people all over the world will speak just 3 000 languages by 2100
C、Romani may never disappear in the near future
D、migration can to some degree make English more popular
答案D
解析 选项A来自“new arrivals generally stick with their mother tongue, at least at home, their children rarely do”，但该句的children指的是new arrivals的children，因此A选项的children比较笼统，夸大了范围，故错误。选项B来自第一段“By 2100 nearly half of the 6,000 spoken today may be gone”，其中“may be gone”只是一种推测，而选项B说“will speak just…”，变成了一种确定性，故表述错误。选项C说“吉普塞语可能永远不会消失”，显然也是对原文意思的夸大。选项D符合第一段“Migration, either between countries or from the countryside to cities，is one reason”的表述，即“移民(无论是国家间的移民还是从农村到城市的移民)是一个因素”，该因素就是导致语言不断消失的因素，从而导致了英语的流行。这个选项需要推理。故选项D正确。该题有一定难度。
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