Read the following passage about endangered languages and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate
Read the following passage about endangered languages and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions.
There are around 7,000 languages in the world today. However, most people speak the largest languages: Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, and others. So what about the smaller languages? According to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, around one-third of the world's languages now have fewer than 1,000 speakers. We may soon lose those languages completely. In fact, 230 languages became extinct between 1950 and 2010 .
Unfortunately, when we lose a language, we also lose its culture and knowledge. That's because people in different places have different ways of living and thinking. One example of this is the Tuvan language of southern Siberia. Tuvan people depend on animals for food and other basic needs. Their language shows this close connection between people and animals. The Tuvan word ezenggileer, for example, means "to sing with the rhythms of riding a horse." And the word ak byzaa is "a white calf less than one year old."
In some places, people are working to save traditional languages. Many schools in New Zealand now teach the Maori language. This helps connect native New Zealanders to their Maori culture. And Welsh is spoken by around 500,000 people in Wales. The Welsh government is working to increase that number to one million by 2050.
Technology offers a possible alternative to saving endangered languages. National Geographic's Enduring Voices project has created "Talking Dictionaries" - the recorded voices of people communicating with each other. All of them are fluent speakers of endangered languages. And because these dictionaries are accessible to anyone on the Internet, people now and in the future can learn some of the vocabulary, greetings, and grammar rules of past languages.
(Adapted from Explore New Worlds)
Trả lời cho các câu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 dưới đây:
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the largest languages?
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
The word extinct in paragraph 1 is OPPOSITE in meaning to ______.
Đáp án đúng là: A
Đáp án cần chọn là: A
The word Their in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
Đáp án đúng là: B
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
The word accessible in paragraph 4 could be best replaced by _____.
Đáp án đúng là: A
Đáp án cần chọn là: A
Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?
Đáp án đúng là: C
Đáp án cần chọn là: C
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
In which paragraph does the writer mention a present causal relationship?
Đáp án đúng là: B
Đáp án cần chọn là: B
In which paragraph does the writer explore modern methods for maintaining endangered languages?
Đáp án đúng là: D
Đáp án cần chọn là: D
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