高考英語全國卷閱讀文章來源
❶ 2022年高考英語全國甲卷 - 閱讀理解C
As Ginni Bazlinton reached Antarctica, she found herself greeted by a group of little Gentoo penguins longing to say hello. These gentle, lovely gatekeepers welcomed her and kick-started what was to be a trip Ginni would never forget.
吉妮·巴茲林頓到達南極洲時,一群渴望問好的小巴布亞企鵝向她打招呼。這些溫柔可愛的看門人歡迎她,開始了一段吉妮永遠難忘的旅程。
Ever since her childhood, Ginni, now 71, has had a deep love for travel. Throughout her career as a professional dancer, she toured in the UK, but always longed to explore further. When she retired from dancing and her sons eventually flew the nest, she decided it was time to take the plunge.
現年71歲的吉妮從小就熱愛旅行。在她的職業舞蹈生涯中,曾在英國巡迴演出,一直渴望繼續探險。當她從舞蹈中退休,兒子們最終各自成家立業後,決定是時候冒險了。
After taking a degree at Chichester University in Related Arts, Ginni began to travel the world, eventually getting work teaching English in Japan and Chile. And it was in Chile she discovered she could get last-minute cheap deals on ships going to Antarctica from the islands off Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of the South American mainland. "I just decided wanted to go," she says. "I had no idea about what I'd find there and I wasn't nervous, I just wanted to do it. And I wanted to do it alone as I always prefer it that way."
在奇切斯特大學獲得相關藝術學位後,吉妮開始周遊世界,最終在日本和智利找到了教英語的工作。她發現,在智利,她可以在最後一刻買到從南美大陸最南端火地島出發前往南極洲的便宜船票。「我只是想去,」她說,「我不知道在那裡會發現什麼,我也不緊張,我只是想去。我想一個人去,因為我總是喜歡這樣。」
In March 2008, Ginni boarded a ship with 48 passengers she'd never met before, to begin the journey towards Antarctica. "From seeing the wildlife to witnessing sunrises, the whole experience was amazing. Antarctica left an impression on me that no other place has," Ginni says. "I remember the first time I saw a humpback whale; it just rose out of the water like some prehistoric creature and I thought it was smiling at us. You could still hear the operatic sounds it was making underwater."
2008年3月,吉妮登上一艘載有48名乘客的船,開啟了她從未經歷的南極洲之旅。「從看野生動物到看日出,整個過程令人驚嘆。南極洲給我留下了獨一無二的印象,」吉妮說,「我記得我第一次看到座頭鯨時,它就像史前生物一樣從水中浮出水面,我認為它在向我們微笑。你還可以聽見它在水下發出的歌劇般的聲音。」
The realization that this is a precious land, to be respected by humans, was one of the biggest things that hit home to Ginni.
認識到這是一塊寶貴的土地,應該受到人類的尊重,這就是對吉妮來說最重要的事情之一。
❷ 2021年高考英語全國卷2 - 閱讀理解C
You』ve heard that plastic is polluting the oceans—between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, foreing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic procts.
你聽說過塑料正在污染海洋——每年有480萬到1270萬噸塑料進入海洋生態系統。但是,一根塑料吸管或杯子真的能帶來變化嗎?藝術家本傑明·馮·黃想讓你知道這是真的。他用塑料垃圾建造了巨大的雕塑,讓觀眾重新審視他們與一次性塑料製品的關系。
At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called「Strawpocalypse,」 a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
今年年初,這位藝術家創作了一幅名為「Strawpocalypse」的作品,這是一對10英尺高的塑料波浪,凝結在半空,由從幾次海灘清理志願者中收集的168,000根塑料吸管製成,首次出現在越南胡志明市的埃斯黛拉廣場購物中心。
Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source of plastic pollution, but they』ve recently come under fire because most people don』t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that' s part of Von Wong's artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear.
全球只有9%的塑料垃圾被回收利用。塑料吸管絕不是的塑料污染的最大來源,但最近它們受到了猛烈抨擊,因為大多數人不需要用吸管喝飲料,而且由於它們體積小、重量輕,無法回收。馮·黃作品中的每一根吸管都可能來自一種只喝了幾分鍾的飲料。一旦飲料消失,吸管需要幾個世紀才能消失。
In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wanted to illustrate a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckload's worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled "Truckload of Plastic, "Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they』d been mped from a truck all at once.
在2018年的一篇文章中,馮·黃想舉例說明具體的統計數據:每60秒,一卡車的塑料進入海洋。在這項名為「一卡車塑料」的作品中,馮·黃和一群志願者收集了1萬多塊塑料,然後將它們綁在一起,看起來像是突然從卡車上被傾倒了下來。
Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to rece their plastic footprint.
馮·黃希望他的工作也能幫助大公司減少塑料足跡。
❸ 2018全國一卷英語閱讀理解B篇分析
個人認為本文是兼有敘事風格和新聞風格的一篇文章。
通過文中幾個關鍵信息The eight-part series (系列節目),ITV,
Good Morning Britain等初步可以判斷主人公的個人身份可能是電視台host。由此我們需要釐清一個現象,那就是選文的背景。很明顯,本文選自外刊,也就是說文章是國外媒體,所以針對其當地人為主要閱讀對象,寫作風格和語言也是有針對性的,正如假如媒體撰文關於我們的中央電視台的某節目和節目主持人的話,我們會對相關信息有一定的背景了解,無需文章再贅述,而本文也是如此,反過來,它相對於我們這些對背景了解甚少的讀者來說,某些信息就需要猜測,所以拿來作為高考題目選文,感覺上至少陌生背景信息一定不要影響學生理解文本核心信息和作答為佳。
第一題,命題人順序命題,看第一段信息,此段信息也是本文比較關鍵的信息,它為下文的正確閱讀理解有一定的鋪墊作用。關鍵信息點be used to,but ,guests,cook up a storm 等可以大致確定她身份的一個變化。最重要的語篇標志詞but把她的工作性質進行了轉折,有助於作答第一題。所以B為答案,干擾比較大的是A,因為此項信息沒有更多信息支持是否she enjoys embarrassing her guests ,因為在歐美人士的思維和語言使用中會有一種隱含的意思,有時候會有詼諧風格,所以此項內容站在國內思維角度算作是干擾信息吧。guests on the sofa坐在沙發上的特邀嘉賓
Grill這個詞彙的使用是非常微妙的,詞典中b義原本就是a義的轉喻。這裡面應該有修辭在裡面。還有就是英漢詞典中也明確標明詞義「拷問」,對應英文釋義就可以理解了。那麼我們可以推斷Susanna原來主持的節目是早間的一檔類似於智力問答一類或者涉及需要和嘉賓進行問題交流的節目。至於具體節目內容不需要具體探究。作者在此處使用了grill這個詞,非常生動,很形象又和下文中所提到的cook food等內容有一定的呼應,比較恰當。cook up a storm 這個詞快不屬於關鍵信息詞,但是此處根據語境可以命制一條詞義理解題目,會比較好。
接下來第二題,命題人順序出題,此題的出題點選擇的過於細微。題干中有具體指示詞,回原文查找信息,然後理解細節,題干提示How,那就側重點放於此。看原文she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to rece food waste, while preparing recipes for under £5 per family a day,認真理解此處信息會發現Matt Tebbutt幫助她的是為她提供建議,來自於一線廚師的建議。也就是說她的節目當中可能會先預訂好每日的菜譜,按照菜譜去做菜,且按照要求,做菜的成本控制在每日每戶不超過5£。下文也有幾處提到Matt,但是對於Matt在整個電視節目中具體做什麼,從文本內容本身是無法得出的,假如推測的話,也可以有不同的推斷,所以還是呼應上面的說法,本文的目標閱讀對象是熟悉這一電視節目的人,所以文中沒有相對於某些具體信息做細致交代,事實上命題人有可能是在迴避不精確理解,打了一個擦邊球,cooking matters 很難理解具體表達什麼,可以理解為「烹飪方面相關事項」。而此處,命題人的闡述感覺很奇怪,但是又不能完全否定,鑒於其他干擾基本可以排除,那麼答案只能鎖定C。
文章行文至此,作者插入了一段對於電視節目的大致介紹。命題人在此確立了一個命題點,假如一定要歸類的話,可以歸類為作者「寫作手法或者作者寫作意圖題」,從文章篇章角度看,突出強調這一段在整個篇章結構中的作用。根據上下文來看,答案很明顯。因為此段內容和前後內容沒有明顯的總結和因果等關系。
27題標題歸納題。讀懂文章就可以做出正確答案,干擾項基本設置也算合理。但是,假如從另外一個角度來說,把標題作為文章大意來使用的話,那麼會感覺本文的文章風格和脈絡不是特別恰當。而且D項的表達也感覺比較牽強。求證了下題源,原標題確實和本標題不一樣。Good Morning Britain』s Susanna Reid on new cooking on a tight budget,
本文本的優點在於題材比較貼近生活,但不是中國高中生的生活,少花錢做好食物的觀點也有正面價值觀導向,但是因為文章寫作風格的限制,核心觀點並沒有深入介紹和剖析。且命題點受限,命題局限。文章另外還可以挖出一兩個其他題點的。
以下為原文文本和圖片
Good Morning Britain』s Susanna Reid is used to grilling guests on the sofa every morning, but she is cooking up a storm in her latest role — showing families how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals on a tight budget. In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to rece food waste, while preparing recipes for under £5 per family a day. And the Good Morning Britain presenter says she』s been able to put a lot of what she』s learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, Finn, 13, and Jack, 11. 「We love Mexican churros, so I buy them on my phone from my local Mexican takeaway restaurant,」 she explains. 「I pay £5 for a portion (一份), bur Matt makes them for 26p a portion, because they are flour, water, sugar and oil. Everybody can buy takeaway food, but sometimes we』re not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.」 The eight-part series (系列節目), Save Money: Good Food, follows in the footsteps of ITV』s Save Money: Good Health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health procts on the market. With food our biggest weekly household expense, Susanna and Matt spend time with a different family each week. In tonight』s Easter special they come to the aid of a family in need of some delicious inspiration on a budget. The team transforms the family』s long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.
❹ 2022年高考英語全國乙卷 - 閱讀理解A
Henry Raeburn(1756-1823)
亨利·雷伯恩(1756-1823)
The Exhibition
展覽
This exhibition of some sixty masterpieces celebrating the life and work of Scotland's best loved painter, Sir Henry Raeburn, comes to London. Selected from collections throughout the world, it is the first major exhibition of his work to be held in over forty years.
這場展覽將在倫敦舉行,展出蘇格蘭最受歡迎的畫家亨利·雷伯恩爵士的60多幅傑作,以紀念他的一生和作品。展品選自世界各地,是他四十多年來首次舉辦的大型作品展。
Lecture Series
系列講座
Scottish National Portrait Gallery presents a series of lectures for the general public. They are held in the Lecture Room. Admission to lectures is free.
蘇格蘭國家肖像畫廊為公眾舉辦了一系列講座。演講廳舉行,免費入場。
An Introction to Raeburn
雷伯恩簡介
Sunday 26 Oct., 15.00
10月26日(周日)15:00
DUNCAN THOMSON
鄧肯·湯姆森
Raeburn's English Contemporaries
雷伯恩的英國同時代人
Thursday 30 Oct., 13.10
10月30日(周四)13:10
JUDY EGERTON
朱迪·埃格頓
Characters and Characterisation in Raeburn's Portraits
雷伯恩肖像畫中的人物與人物塑造
Thursday 6 Nov., 13.10
11月6日(周四)13:10
NICHOLAS PHILLIPSON
尼古拉斯·菲利普森
Raeburn and Artist's Training in the 18th Century
18世紀的雷伯恩與藝術家們的訓練
Thursday 13 Nov., 13.10
11月13日(周四)13:10
MARTIN POSTLE
馬丁·波斯特爾
Exhibition Times
展出時間
Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 17.45 Sunday 12.00- 17.45
周一至周六 10:00-17:45 周日12:00-17:45
Last admission to the exhibition: 17.15. There is no re-admission.
展覽最後入場時間:17:15。不能再次入場。
Closed: 24 - 26 December and 1 January.
關閉日期:12月24日至26日和1月1日。
Admission
門票
£4. Children under 12 years accompanied by an alt are admitted free.
£4。12歲以下兒童在成人陪同下免費入場。
Schools and Colleges
學校和學院
A special low entrance charge of £2 per person is available to all in full-time ecation, up to and including those at first degree level, in organised groups with teachers.
全日制教育的所有學生,包括那些參加有老師組織的第一學位課程的學生,都只需購買每人2英鎊的特惠門票。
❺ 英語高考閱讀理解中的生詞主要出自哪裡四級嗎(⊙_⊙)
英語高考閱讀理解中的生詞主要出自哪裡?四級嗎(⊙_⊙)?
額,其實有些生詞真的是不需要你去知道的。讀文章的時候不需要揪住生詞不放。要學會抓主幹,抓重點。生詞那些有一些可能是你基礎沒打牢早成的,有些事故意讓你不會的。並不是一篇文章所有的單詞都認識就能讀懂它。有時候不會的詞就略過就好了,這樣才能讀好文章。
當然詞彙量也很重要,要把該會的單詞一定都要讀明白。
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高考英語閱讀理解,它的選材主要出自哪裡
近幾年高考英語閱讀理解題所選材料的題材、體裁多樣,主要取材於英文原版書籍,語言地道、內容新穎,文化意味濃厚,試題設計均重語篇理解。 (一) 近幾年高考英語閱讀理解測試新動向 1. 閱讀的詞彙量增加,越來越強調提高閱讀速度 近年來,高考閱讀理解部分的閱讀總詞量一直保持著遞增的趨勢,這就意味著考生要在有限的時間內完成文章的閱讀,必須提高閱讀速度。 2. 文章的生詞量增多 文章的生詞量增多,主要表現在由構詞法產生的新詞和教學大綱不作要求的生詞增多。這就導致閱讀材料文字難度增大,考生往往要反復幾遍才能讀懂。再加之材料行文表達使用比較正式的語言,結構復雜的長句及省略和插入語等較復雜的語言現象在文章中隨處可見。這不僅減慢了閱讀速度,而且也影響了考生根據文章內容去進行推理和判斷。 3. 選材面寬,貼近生活,保持原汁原味 近幾年的高考閱讀文章選材更貼近生活實際、更富有時代氣息,題材新穎,包括故事、傳記、人物、傳說、生活常識、社會文化、天文、史地、科普知識、政治、經濟及名人逸事等。體裁也不一,有記敘文、說明文、議論文、應用文等。而且文章多是屬於原汁原味的文章,其中文章習語用得較多,涉及英美人的文化生活習慣。 4. 深層理解及推理槐盯判斷型題持續增加 一篇文章圍繞一個中心,或者是某一話題展開,文中絕大部分的篇幅都圍繞這個主題來說明它,反映它。弄清細節,獲取信息是正確把握主旨中心的前提。在以往的高考試題中,往往掌握文中細節的直接理解的題目在試題中所佔比例較大。但在近些年的高考試題中這類題目已明顯減少,而推理、判斷、綜合類試題大大增加了。要求考生能從字里行間理解文章的深層含義,即作者的態度、意圖、傾向等,而且能把握全篇的文脈,即句與句、段與段之間的關系,並且能據此進行合乎邏輯的推理和判斷。 (二)高考對考生的閱讀理解能力的要求 1. 掌握所讀材料的主旨大意,以及用以說明主旨大意的材料和細節。 2. 既理解具體的事實,也理解抽象的概念。 3. 既理解字面的意思,也理解深層含義,包括作者的態度、意圖等。 4. 既理解某句、某段的意義,也理解全篇的邏輯關系,並據此進行推理和判斷。 5. 既能根據材料所提供的信息,也能結合中學生應有的常識去正確判斷生詞和短語的含義。 (三) 近幾年高考閱讀的主要考點 高考閱讀題通常分為兩大類:客觀性理解試題,即考查短文大意的試題,事實細節描述題,短文、句子、短語、單詞意義理解題;主觀性試題,即通過閱讀文章,對文章的中心思想、立意主旨、作者觀點、態度等有更深襲賣入的理解。一般說來,高考閱讀理解對考生的測試角度表現在以下幾個方面: 1. 猜測詞義 這類題要求考生能根據上下文正確理解靈活多變的詞義。在做這類題時,應對上下文中已知部分進行邏輯上的推理,必要時還要進行語法分析,尤其是詞與詞之間的關系,有時還要依據常識和經驗進行猜測。 2. 理解主旨大意 一篇文章通常是圍繞著一個中心思想展開的。閱讀時,我們不可忽視短文中開頭和結尾的段落或句子的含義。因為它們往往是文章中心的概括和總結。對於沒有明顯主題句的文章段落要根據文段中所陳述的事實或提供的線索加以概括總結,從而判斷出四個選項中哪一個為最佳選擇,說明了文章的中心。 3. 推理判斷 這類題要求考生能通過文章表面文字信息去推測文章隱含的意思拍明逗,要求考生對文章的情節發展,以及作者的態度、意圖等做出合乎邏輯的推理和判斷。 4. 對文章的細節理解 5. 數據推算
高考閱讀理解中出現多的生詞以及語法重點
這我倒是沒辦法總結。你在平時做題的時候總結總結不就好啦。英語閱讀理解裡面的生詞不一定要認識的,要是全給你認識了,高考考試還考個什麼勁啊,是要有技巧滴。我來給你說說吧。我做題的時候通常都是先看題目再看文章內容,這樣做題准確率高一些的,還有在你看題目的時候覺得哪一個詞是重點的,就把它畫出來,等看文章內容的時候你就離異一下這個詞,也許答案就出來了。那麼怎麼才能知道,重點詞,就是5個W了,WHY WHAT WHERE WHICH WHEN ,你看題目問的是什麼你就可以把題目中的那個關鍵詞畫出來了。
完形填空要多做,提高速度,理解上下文最重要。那麼,經常在銜接處有選那種連接詞的,不知道到底是該選轉折還是順接,這就是上下文的理解了,那你先不要做這一題,等文章理順了再做。還有一些會犯的錯誤就是,看見好像是習慣用法,一下就選了,但是其實不是慣用法,只是看著像而已,要注意。一些沒見過的不認識的詞,可以根據詞性先排除一些,再做選擇,這些是我自己做完形填空總結出來的,希望對你有些用吧。
還可以告訴你一個學習的博客,裡面不但有學習英語的方法還有其他各科的學習方法和解題技巧,還有學習資料,希望對你的學習有幫助,加油啊!
高考閱讀理解的生單詞屬於四六級嗎?
基本上是的。高考的閱讀理解的難度與四六級考試題的難度比較接近!
考研英語閱讀理解文章都出自哪裡
出自四大周刊歷年的一些文章。我記得有時代周刊,還有一個叫經濟學的,還有一個科技的。你可以買本考研英語練習冊,裡面都寫出處
高考閱讀理解翻譯哪裡找 急·
可以去上你們地區知名度很高的教輔的官方網站上找或者在線翻譯也可
急求高考閱讀理解中的高頻詞彙
我也要高考,高頻的很多.像immediately, environment, quit ,apart ,survived,你知道這些也沒用,你最好還是看單詞表,反正你也不必去背,只需去記那些單詞的大概意思.把課本翻翻,看看能不能把課文看懂.你不妨試試,挺有用的.
高考英語閱讀理解生詞量約佔比例
根據考卷的不同,有各省的試卷,全國卷這些,比例會有所浮動,65%是大綱內的詞,25%是大綱變形詞,就是加詞根詞綴這些稍微有點變化的,10%的超綱詞,而且實詞一定可以通過上下文理解,專有名詞可以忽略。
英語高考閱讀理解題都考查哪些題型
一、觀點態度題
二、詞義推斷題
三、主旨大意題
四、具體細節題
五、文章結構題
六、判斷推理題
高考英語閱讀理解高頻詞彙有哪些 ?英語四級考試閱讀理解高頻詞彙有哪些?
簡潔扼要
歷年高考英語高頻詞彙
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❻ 2022年高考英語全國甲卷 - 閱讀理解B
Goffin's cockatoos, a kind of small parrot native to Australasia, have been shown to have similar shape-recognition abilities to a human two-year-old. Though not known to use tools in the wild, the birds have proved skilful at tool use while kept in the cage. In a recent experiment, cockatoos were presented with a box with a nut inside it. The clear front of the box had a "keyhole" in a geometric shape, and the birds were given five differently shaped "keys" to choese from. Inserting the correct "key" would let out the nut.
戈芬的鳳頭鸚鵡是一種原產於澳大拉西亞的小鸚鵡,它的形狀識別能力相當於兩歲兒童。盡管野外的這些鳥不知道使用工具,但事實證明,在籠中長大彎吵的可以熟練使用。最近的一次實驗中,給鳳頭鸚鵡一個盒子,盒子里有一顆堅果。盒子正面有一個幾何形狀的「鑰匙孔」,給這些鳥五個不同形狀的「鑰匙」讓它們從中選擇。插入正確的「鑰匙」堅果會掉出來。
In humans, babies can put a round shape in a round hole from around one year of age, but it will be another year before they are able to do the same with less symmetrical shapes. This ability to recognize that a shape will need to be turned in a specific direction before it will fit is called an "allocentric frame of reference". In the experiment, Goffin's cockatoos were able to select the right tool for the job, in most cases, by visual recognition alone. Where trial-and-error was used, the cockatoos did better than monkeys in similar tests. This indicates that Goffin's cockatoos do indeed possess an allocentric frame of reference when moving objects in space, similar to two-year-old babies.
人純槐類的嬰兒大約一歲左右就可以在圓孔中放入圓形物品,但要想在對稱性較差的情況下也能做到這一點,還需要一年的時間。這種能夠識別形狀需要朝特定方向轉動才能匹配的能力被稱為「異中心參照系」。在實驗中,戈芬的鳳頭鸚鵡能夠在大多數情況下僅通過視覺識別來選擇合適的工具。經過反復試驗,類似的測試中,鳳頭鸚鵡比猴子表現更好。這表明,當在空中移動物體時,戈芬的鳳頭鸚鵡確實具有異中心參照系,類似於兩歲的嬰兒。
The next step, according to the researchers, is to try and work out whether the cockatoos rely entirely on visual clues, or also use a sense of touch in making their shape selections.
根據研究人員的說法,下一步是嘗試確定做鬧友鳳頭鸚鵡是完全依賴視覺線索,還是在選擇形狀時也使用觸覺。
❼ 2018年高考英語全國Ⅰ卷 閱讀題C篇「經濟學人」
C
Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit (聯系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.
Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, instrialisation, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory ecation, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.
At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1,000; Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number (中位數) of speakers is mere 6,000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.
Already well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction (消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United States (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.
28. What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?
A. They developed very fast.
B. They were large in number.
C. They had similar patterns.
D. They were closely connected.
29. Which of the following best explains "dominant" underlined in paragraph 2?
A. Complex. B. Advanced. C. Powerful. D. Modern.
30. How many languages are spoken by less than 6,000 people at present?
A. About 6,800. B. About 3,400. C. About 2,400. D. About 1,200.
31. What is the main idea of the text?
A. New languages will be created.
B. People's lifestyles are reflected in languages.
C. Human development results in fewer languages.
D. Geography determines language evolution.
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