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The Day a Language Died
When Carios Westez died at the age of 76, a language died, too. Westez, more commonly
known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language Catawba.
Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations. __________ (46) They are all that is left of the Catawba language. The language that people used to speak is gone forever.
We are all aware of the danger that modem industry can cause the world's ecology (生態).
However, few people are aware of the impact widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over the word. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages as well. __________ (47) When this happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out.
Scholars believe there are around 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years. There are many examples, Araki is a native language of the island of Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is spoken by only a few older adults, so like Catawba, Araki will soon disappear. Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers. __________(48) In the Americas,100 languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, are dying out.
Red Thunder Cloud was one of the first to recognize the danger of language death and to try to do something about it. He was not actually born into the Catawba tribe, and the language was not his mother tongue.__________ (49) The songs he sang for the Smithsonian Institution helped to make Native American music popular. Now he is gone, and the language is dead.
What does it mean for the rest of us when a language disappears? When a plant insect or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what has been lost and to for the balance of the natural word. However, language is only a product of the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language, like Red Thunder, must be a peculiarly lonely destiny, almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. __________ (50)
A. Some people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts.
B. Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different language, but more than 100of them are in danger of extinction ( 滅絕 ) .
C. However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the language.
D. These languages don't have many native speakers.
E. For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.
F. As these languages become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increase.
答案與解析：
46.A。空位於段中，所以與前後的句子都有語義上的銜接。從空格前的句子看，談論的是塗鴉、污染和熾熱的陽光造成了壁畫的糟糕狀態，空格後談論的是專家認爲公共藝術沒有得到足夠的重視，所以推斷空格處應該談論的是壁畫的糟糕情況或者如何解決，故A(城市試圖阻止塗鴉的蔓延，所以在那些壁畫上塗上了油漆。)爲最佳選項，其中A項中的graffiti與空格前句子中的graffiti有詞語銜接的一致性。重複詞的出現是體現語義銜接的重要標誌。
47.D。空格位於段落的首旬，空格後的句子談論的是這項工作開始於2003年，已經選擇了16堵牆的壁畫，隨後會加入更多的牆壁，尤其可推斷D(現在城市開始實施修復城市壁畫的巨大工程。)是正確答案，談論的是牆壁壁畫修復工作，the project與空格後句子中的the work也有語義上的銜接。
48.C。空格位於段落的尾句，因而與前面的句子有語義上的銜接。空格前提到洛杉磯那些年輕的藝術家開始研究20世紀早期的`墨西哥壁畫，因而空格處話題應與此有關，其中Mexican artists和Mexican mural painting體現出語義的銜接，故C(藝術家們喜歡壁畫是因爲他們喜歡墨西哥藝術家的作品。)是正確答案，
49.E。空位於段中，所以與前後的句子都有語義上的銜接。從空格前的句子看，談論的是The most famous mural，從空格後的代詞“it”可以判斷，談論的對象是個單數，由此可知空格所在的句子談論的還是The most famous mural…，故E(壁畫代表了加州地區種族羣體的歷史。)是正確答案。主語的一致性是體現語義銜接的重要標誌。
50.B。空位於段中，所以與前後的句子都有語義上的銜接。從空格前的句子看，談論的是Kent Twitchell所創作的該幅壁畫是爲1984年洛杉磯奧運會所做，空格是創作者Kent Twitchell對其含義的解釋，因而空格處談論的還是這幅畫，再結合復現詞彙Los Angeles可推斷空格處所填的句子爲選項B或者選項F，但是選項F中的their murals爲複數形式，由此可知B(這幅引人注目的作品刻畫了兩個人相互面對，分別立於洛杉磯市中心快車道的兩側的情況)爲最佳答案。談論對象的單複數的一致性也是判斷語義銜接的重要標誌。
