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Endangered languages are languages that wouldn’t exist any longer, much like endangered species of plants or animals. Languages are considered to be endangered when parents are no longer teaching the language to their children and are not using it actively in everyday life. A language is considered to nearly disappear when it is spoken by only a few elderly native speakers.
The world faces enormous challenges in order to protect different kinds of languages. Of the more than 6,912 languages, half may be in danger of disappearing in the next several decades.
It is caused by many reasons: small numbers of speakers, the regular use of other languages, attitudes towards their languages, moving of the younger population, government policies, and languages used in education and so on. A language may lack important things such as a body of literature, and people who read and write it. A language may also lack prestige (聲望) and support of its speakers.
The survival of a language is also threatened when speakers move to other areas where different languages are spoken, or when government policies improve the use of a specific language in school, official business and the media. These situations encourage people to learn the wider-known language and may cause them, especially the young, to stop using their mother tongue. Often those speaking lesser-known languages will choose to learn a more prestigious language with the hope of greater economic opportunities. Most of the world’s parents are teaching their children English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian or some other main languages instead of their own languages for social and economic reasons.
小題1:What’s the main idea of this passage?
A．Languages in the world.
B．Reasons why languages become endangered.
C．What an endangered language is.
D．Languages spoken by few speakers.
小題2:About ________languages will probably disappear in this century according to the passage.
A．more than 6,912B．more than 3,456C．6,912D．less than 3,456
小題3:Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
①=Paragraph1   ②=Paragraph2  ③=Paragraph3  ④=Paragraph4

小題4:We can infer that the best way to maintain an endangered language is to _________.
A．forbid the speakers to move about
B．pass laws to protect the language
C．raise the salaries of the people who speak the language
D．teach the language to young children and encourage people to speak it often
小題5:All of the following about languages are true EXCEPT __________.
A．many languages will be probably endangered in this century
B．government policies have a big effect on languages
C．the endangered language is a language that is spoken by a few people
D．languages are related to their speakers’ social and economic position

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:D
小題5:C
文章講述的是瀕臨消失的語言的定義，消失的原因和可以采取的措施
小題1:主旨大意題，文章主要講述的是很多語言變成瀕臨消失的原因。
小題2:推理判斷題，根據第二段 Of the more than 6,912 languages, half may be in danger of disappearing in the next several decades可知，大約有3456多種語言要消失
小題3:推理判斷題，根據文章內容可知，第一二兩段是綜述，三四兩段是分論點
小題4:事實細節(jié)題，根據最后一段These situations encourage people to learn the wider-known language and may cause them, especially the young可知，是要教年輕人這種語言并鼓勵他們經常講
小題5:推理判斷題，根據第一段Endangered languages are languages that wouldn’t exist any longer可知，C想是錯誤的
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