2014年新课标卷 1阅读理解 D原文及译文
【1】As more and more people speak the global languagesof English,
Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.In
fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today
willlikely die out by the next century, according to the United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultura Organization (UNESCO).
【2】In an effort to prevent language loss, scholarsfrom a number of
organizations - UNESCO and National Geographic—haveforamong them
many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
【3】Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University, who
specializes in the languages and oral traditions of theHimalayas, is following
in that tradition. His recently published book, AGrammar of Thangmi with an
scholarsEthnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers andTheir Culture, grows out of
his experience living, working, and raising afamily in a village in Nepal.
【4】Documenting the Thangmi language and culture isjust a starting point
for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oraltraditions across the
Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. Buthe is not content
to simply record these voices before they disappear withoutrecord.
【5】At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered awealth of important
materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings,and— field notes
which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of careand protection.
【6】Now, through the two organizations that –hethehasfoundedDigital
Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project --Turin has started a campaign to make such d
ocuments, found in libraries andstores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the youngerGenerations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected.Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes,the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.
32.Many scholars are making efforts to _______
A. promote global languages
B. rescue disappearing languages
C. search for language communities
D. set up language research organizations.
33.Whatdoes “traditionthatin Paragraph” 3
refer to? A. Having full records of the languages
B. Writing books on language teaching.
C. Telling stories about language users
D. Living with the native speakers.
34.WhatTurinis book’s based on?
A. The cultural studies in India.
B. The documents available at Yale.
C. His language research in Bhutan.
D. His personal experience in Nepal.
35.Which of thefollowing bestTurindescribeswork?’s
A. Write, selland donate.
B. Record, repairand reward.
C. Collect,protect and reconnect.
D. Design,experiment and report.
参考答案： BADC
【1】随着越来越多的人说英语、汉语、西班牙语、阿拉伯语这些
全球化语言，其他语言正在快速地消失。事实上，根据联合国羲育
科学文化组织 (UNESCO)的说法，现在全球使用的6000至 7000种语
言中有一半很可能会在下个世纪消亡。
【2】为了防止语言消失，来自包括 UNESCO和国家地理等大量组织机构的学者多年来一直在对正在消亡的语言和它们反映的文化进行记录存档。
【3】马克·图林是耶鲁大学麦克米伦中心的一名科学家。他致力于喜马拉雅山脉的语言和口迷传统的研究。他也遵守着那样的传统。他最近出版的书《唐米语的语法、使用者及民族语言文化的介绍》取材于他在尼泊尔一个村庄生活、工作、抚养家庭的亲身经历。
【4】对唐米语和其文化记录存档对于图林来说仅仅是一个开始。他试图把印度、尼泊尔、不丹以及中
国在喜马拉雅边缘地区的其他语言和口语传统也囊括进来。但他并不满足于在这些语言没有被记录而消失之前简单地记录下这些声音。
【5】在剑桥大学图林发现了大量的重要材料，包括照片、电影、磁带和现
场笔记。这些材料始终没有被研究过，亟需得到关注和保护。
【6】现在，通过他创立的两个组织——数码喜马拉雅工程和世界口头文学工程——图林已经展开了一场对语言进行记录存档的运动，这场运动让这记录在全世界的图书馆和商店都可以到，不仅学者可以加以利用，对于来自这些记录最初收集地区的年轻人来说也是如此。图林写道，多亏了数码技术和广泛普及的互联网，这些濒危的语言才能够得以保存，并和这些语言体再次建立起联系。

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