文章大意：这是一篇说明文。随着越来越多的人说英语、汉语、西班牙语和阿拉伯语等全球性语言，其他语言正在迅速消失。事实上，根据联合国教育、科学及文化组织的数据，当今世界上使用的6000到7000种语言中，有一半可能在下个世纪消失。为了防止语言流失，包括联合国教科文组织和《国家地理》在内的许多组织的学者多年来一直在记录濒临灭绝的语言及其所反映的文化。
6 . As more and more people speak the global languages of 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 will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss,scholars from a number of organizations — UNESCO and National Geographic among them — have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center,Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials — including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes — which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded — the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project — Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world,available not just to scholars but to the youngers.
Generations 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.
1. Many scholars are making efforts to________.
| A．promote global language | B．rescue disappearing languages |
| C．search for language communities | D．set up language research organizations |
2. What does “that tradition” in 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. |
3. What is Turin’s book 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. |
4. Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?
| A．Write, sell and donate. | B．Record, repair and reward. |
| C．Design, experiment and report. | D．Collect, protect and reconnect. |
