选修8 Module 4 Which English黑龙江省海林市朝鲜族中学届高三英语一轮复习题外研版.docx

1、选修8 Module 4 Which English黑龙江省海林市朝鲜族中学届高三英语一轮复习题外研版基础自测 (四十六)选修8Module 4Which English?姓名:时间:30分钟.阅读理解A主题词数体裁拯救语言308说明文Experts say there are about 6,500 languages spoken throughout the world. But the United Nations guesses that about half of these languages are in danger of disappearing.One organizat

2、ion seeking to save world languages is Wikitongues. It has a simple goal: to provide the tools and support that people need to save their languages. When a language disappears, many other things can go away as well. For example, parts of a communitys culture, knowledge and identity can also be lost.

3、Because of this, Udell, co-founder of Wikitongues, believes the process of bringing languages back must be done by community members themselves. He said, “There is no way an outside organization can save someones language for them.”Wikitongues was started in 2016 as an open Internet collection of wo

4、rld languages. The self-described “community” is operated by volunteers from around the world. The collection is in the form of language videos that people speaking the languages add to the Wikitongues website.Udell says saving languages does count. There are many examples of languages that disappea

5、red but later returned to use. “Hebrew went extinct(灭绝的) in the fourth century BC, and was revived(重新使用) in the 1800s. Now once again,its the mother tongue of half of the worlds Jewish population.” Another example is a Native American tribe. The tribes language went extinct in the 1940s. But the tri

6、be has been able to successfully build up “language recovery” in recent years.One of Wikitongues volunteers is Theron Kolokwe, who lives in Namibia. His native language is Subiya, which is spoken by about 30,000 people.“I want the world to know about my language,” Kolokwe said. But his goal goes bey

7、ond just sharing his language with others through videos. He is also working to create a dictionary and language teaching materials that can be used in schools.()1.What does Udell consider important in saving languages?A.Gathering language information. B.Relying on the language speakers.C.Setting up

8、 an outside organization. D.Combining languages with culture.()2.How does Wikitongues help save languages?A.By getting language videos from their speakers collected.B.By building an online dictionary for each language.C.By creating a real-life community for their speakers.D.By requiring volunteers t

9、o learn new languages.()3.What do the examples in Paragraph 5 suggest?A.The achievements of Wikitongues. B.The influences of languages on life.C.The significance of saving languages. D.The difficulty with language recovery.()4.What can be a suitable title for the text?A.Wikitongues is struggling to

10、spread languagesB.Wikitongues starts a language learning websiteC.Wikitongues is bringing old languages back to lifeD.Wikitongues seeks to save the worlds dying languagesB主题词数体裁一款学习外语的手机软件341说明文Next month, Im travelling to a remote area of Central Africa and my aim is to know enough Lingalaone of th

11、e local languagesto have a conversation. I wasnt sure how I was going to manage this, until I discovered a way to learn all the vocabulary Im going to need. Thanks to Memrise, the application Im using, it feels just like a game.“People often stop learning things because they feel theyre not making p

12、rogress or because it all feels like too much hard work,” says Ed Cooke, one of the people who created Memrise. “Were trying to create a form of learning experience that is fun and is something youd want to do instead of watching TV.”Memrise gives you a few new words to learn and these are “seeds” w

13、hich you plant in your “greenhouse”. When you learn the words, you “water your plants”. When the application believes that youve really memorized a word, it moves the word to your “garden”. And if you forget to log on, the application sends you e-mails, reminding you to “water your plants”.The appli

14、cation uses two principles about learning. The first is that people memorize things better when they link them to a picture in their mind. Memrise translates words into your own language, but it also encourages you to use “mems”. For example, I memorized “motele”, the Lingala word for “engine”, usin

15、g a mem I createdI imagined an old engine in a motel(汽车旅馆) room.The second principle is that we need to stop after studying words and then repeat them again later, leaving time between study sessions. Memrise helps you with this, because its the kind of application you only use for five or ten minut

16、es a day.Ive learnt hundreds of Lingala words with Memrise. I know this wont make me a fluent speaker, but I hope Ill be able to do more than just smile when I meet people in Congo. Now, I need to go and water my vocabulary!()5.What does Ed Cooke make an effort to do with Memrise?A.Create memorable experien