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Like many languages spoken by people, Ayapaneco is dying. Only two people in the world still speak it, and they won't talk to each other.
Spoken in Mexico for centuries, Ayapaneco is one of 68 surviving languages in the mainly Spanish-speaking nation. The two speakers are Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez. Though they live only 500 meters from each other in the village, the two men seldom talk to each other. Daniel, an American expert, who is working to make a dictionary of Ayapaneco, says the two men “don’t have a lot in common,” and that Segovia can be “active” while Velasquez tends to mind his own business and stay at home.
While Segovia still speaks to his wife and son in Ayapaneco, neither of them can manage more than a few words. Velasquez hardly speaks his native tongue any more. Daniel is working to preserve the language in dictionary form before its last surviving speakers pass away. According to Daniel, Ayapaneco and the other languages began dying out with the introduction of public Spanish education in the mid-20^th century. For decades, local children weren’t allowed to speak anything else. Many people to cities, starting in the 1970s, also helped the dying out of native languages.
Ayapaneco is the name given to the language; Segovia and Velazquez call it “Nuumte Oote”, which means “true voice”. Neither man, however, speaks the same language. The dictionary will contain two versions(版本) of the language when it comes out later this year. Those behind the dictionary aren’t the only ones trying to save Ayapaneco. The National Language Institute plans to hold classes so that Segovia and Velasquez can pass on what they know to children.
It is thought that there are about 6,000 languages spoken on earth and that about half will disappear over the next 100 years. Let’s hope the “true voice” isn’t one of them.
【小題1】Which are the main reasons why the language Ayapaneco started dying out? 
a. No teacher liked to teach it.        
b. Local children had to speak Spanish.
c. many villagers went to live in cities. 
d. The surviving speakers didn’t like to use it.

A．a(chǎn), b

B．a(chǎn), c

C．b, d

D．b, c

【小題2】How does the National Language Institute try to save Ayapaneco?

A．Write a dictionary of Ayapaneco.

B．Let Ayapaneco be taught at school.

C．Introduce a public Ayapaneco education.

D．Ask villagers to speak Ayapaneco.

【小題3】From the text we learn that the author____________________.

A．a(chǎn)grees that it is natural that Ayapaneco should die out

B．thinks Daniel’s effort to preserve Ayapaneco won’t work

C．thinks highly of Ayapaneco and wants people to learn it

D．hopes that Ayapaneco will not die out in the future

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】B
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：本文主要講述的是世界上的一些稀有語言正在處于消失滅亡的過程中，舉了Ayapaneco為例，并詳細(xì)說明了人們?yōu)榱吮４孢@門語言多做的努力。
【小題1】D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第3段后四行According to Daniel, Ayapaneco and the other languages began dying out with the introduction of public Spanish education in the mid-20th century. For decades, local children weren’t allowed to speak anything else. Many people to cities, starting in the 1970s, also helped the dying out of native languages.有兩個原因，第一個是很多人都講正式的西班牙語了，第二是很多人都進(jìn)城，不再接觸這一語言。故D正確。
【小題2】B 推理題。根據(jù)文章第4段最后一句The National Language Institute plans to hold classes so that Segovia and Velasquez can pass on what they know to children.可知他們計(jì)劃讓這門語言進(jìn)入課堂，讓學(xué)生在課堂里學(xué)習(xí)這門語言。故B正確。
【小題3】D 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段It is thought that there are about 6,000 languages spoken on earth and that about half will disappear over the next 100 years. Let’s hope the “true voice” isn’t one of them.可知作者希望這門語言能夠一直流傳下去，得到延續(xù)。故D正確。
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