Question

The world's native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study.
The study identified five global "hot spots" where languages are vanishing faster than anywhere else ---- eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, the US state of Oklahoma and the US Pacific Northwest. "Languages are suffering a global extinction crisis that greatly goes beyond the pace of species extinction," linguistics(语言学的) professor David Harrison noted, who said half of the world's 7,000 languages were expected to disappear before the end of the century.
Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. "Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, it's only in people's heads," he said. "We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base."
Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. "The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them," he said. "When we asked them why they were learning it, they said,‘This is a dying language, we need to learn it'." Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct.
The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues.
小题1:What does this text mainly talk about?

A．A study on native languages endangered.

B．The knowledge of native languages.

C．People's efforts in saving native languages

D．Harrison and his study on languages.

小题2:According to Harrison, language extinction       .

A．causes the researchers lots of worries

B．speeds up the pace of species extinction

C．threatens the existing of Spanish and English

D．brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment

小题3:Which of the following can be described as good news?

A．Native languages became less endangered in Australia.

B．A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language.

C．Researchers were well received by native people in Australia.

D．Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language.

Answer 1

小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B

试题分析：这篇文章讲的是本族语正在面临濒临的危险，这些本土语言的消失会带来文化的消失，专家呼吁要采取措施保护这些语言。
小题1:主旨题：从文章第一段的句子：The world's native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study.可知这篇文章讲的是本族语濒临危险，选A
小题2:细节题：从第三段的句子：Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed.可知Harrison 认为本族语言的消失带来的周围环境的知识的丧失，选D
小题3:推理题：从倒数第二段的句子：" Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct. 可知他们发现以前被认为消失的Amurdag语言居然有个人会说，这是一个好消息。选B