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* * 填空题解析（不带选项） 剑4 – T2, R1 – (p42) Lost for Words * 注意标题和每段开头句 * 预测文章结构和走势 标题：Lost for Words 副标题：Many minority languages are on the danger list * 语言文化类篇章的走势 * 每段第一句（+ 第二句部分内容） 第一段： In the Native American Navajo nation, which…. , the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-aged or elderly. 第二段： Navajo is far from alone. 第三段： Isolation breeds linguistic diversity. 第四段： Why do people reject the language of their parents? 第五段： The change is not always voluntary. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by… 第六段： Language is also intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. 第七段： So despite linguists’ best efforts, many languages will disappear over the next century. 第八段： However, preservation can bring a language back from the dead. 文题对应方式与同义替换特点： 第1题：This great variety of languages came about largely as a result of geographical isolation. 原文：Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people. 第2题：But in today’s world, factors such as government initiatives and economic globalisation are contributing to a huge decrease in the number of languages. 原文：The former US policy of running Indian reservation schools in English, for example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list. But Salikoko Mufwene, who chairs the Linguistics department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalisation. 第3题：One factor which may help to ensure that some endangered languages do not die out completely is people’s increasing appreciation of their cultural identity. 原文：So despite linguists’ best efforts, many languages will disappear over the next century. But a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direst predictions from coming true. 第4题：This has been encouraged through programmes of language classes for children and through ‘apprentice’ schemes,