阅读理解。 Endangered languages are languages that wouldn"t exist any longer, muc
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plants or animals. Languages are considered to be endangered when parents are no longer teaching the l
anguage to their children and are not using it actively in everyday life. A language is considered to nearly
disappear when it is spoken by only a few elderly native speakers.
The world faces enormous challenges in order to protect different kinds of languages. Of the more than 6,912 languages, half may be in danger of disappearing in the next several decades.
It is caused by many reasons: small numbers of speakers, the regular use of other languages, attitudes
towards their languages, moving of the younger population, government policies, and languages used in
education and so on. A language may lack important things such as a body of literature, and people who
read and write it. A language may also lack prestige (声望) and support of its speakers.
The survival of a language is also threatened when speakers move to other areas where different
languages are spoken, or when government policies improve the use of a specific language in school,
official business and the media. These situations encourage people to learn the wider-known language
and may cause them, especially the young, to stop using their mother tongue. Often those speaking
lesser-known languages will choose to learn a more prestigious language with the hope of greater
economic opportunities. Most of the world"s parents are teaching their children English, French, Spanish,
Chinese, Arabic, Russian or some other main languages instead of their own languages for social and
economic reasons.
B. Reasons why languages become endangered.
C. What an
endangered language is. D. Languages spoken by few speakers.
B. more than 3,456
C. 6,912
D. less than 3,456
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angered language is to _________.B．pass laws to protect the language
C．raise the salaries of the people who speak the language
D．teach the language to young ch
ildren and encourage people to speak it oftenB．government policies have a big effect on languages
C．the endangered language is a language that is spoken by a few people
D．languages are relat
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devil and ugliness？
Have you read the book “The Wolf Totem” by a famous writer Jiang Rong, which tells the story of the
relationship between wolves and human beings? Have you ever_1_the wolves" world? If you had, you
would 2 the wolves.
In the book, wolves are heroes on the large grassland. They know more about 3 than humans. They
can attack lambs (羔羊) without disturbing their mothers. They also know how to 4 full use of the shape
of land to 5 sheep. I believe that if wolves were humans, they would be 6 experts good at fighting.
The wolf is a kind of special creature that can deeply understand 7 . Each wolf serves its group with
its heart and soul. A 8 wolf has little power, but a pack of wolves 9 nothing. All the wolves obey the
rules. 10 they are defeated, they run away together. It is their teamwork 11 makes wolves powerful.
The wolves also have great self-respect and won"t 12 to anyone. The writer, who wrote the book
“The Wolf Totem”, 13 stole a one-month-old baby wolf and raised it very carefully. To his 14 , he found
the little wolf still wanted to go back with 15 wolves. He bit through the iron chain that limited him. The
wolf was 16 and he never gave in, fighting 17 his death. The little wolf died as a glorious fighter.
I was shocked by this kind of 18 : wolves are one of the most respected creatures on earth. I want
everyone to look at wolves in a 19 way. They are our teachers. They show us how to survive and 20
in this not simple and dangerous world. Please honor the wolves, please honor all these heroes of nature!
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| To many basketball fans in Taiwan, the William Jones Cup or the Basketball Association may be their sweetest memory. But if you ask them, "What"s the hottest basketball event now?" There is the only answer: HBL, the High School Basketball League. Founded in 1988, the HBLwas at first just a high school basketball tournament. After the Taipei School Sport Federation took charge in 1996 and renamed it HBL, everything changed. The Federation decided to co-operated with Nike, the well-known sportswear manufacturer, and use its experience in marketing to promote the game. The HBL started with 129 teams; today there are more than 250. no longer just of interest to the players, it"s now Taiwan"s biggest basketball event. Fellow students, alumni (男毕业生,男校友), and sports fans all over Taiwan cheer for their favorite teams. At last year"s finals, Taipei and Kaohsiung mayors came to cheer for their teams. The HBL starts in September with qualifying and preliminary(预备的,初步的) rounds and continues through April of the following year, when the finals are held. Broadcasting the games on television has helped make the HBL a wildly popular event. It"s become the place to spot young basketball talent. Today"s HBL players are tomorrow"s professionals. Recent HBL tournaments have been very competitive, with no one school taking the advantage. This wide-open quality of the tournament makes it more exciting. Everyone wants to see how this year"s games will come out. HBL fever just keeps getting hotter. | |||
| 1. What is the hottest event in the eyes of most basketball fans in Taiwan? | |||
| A. HBL B. The William Jones Cup C. The Basketball Association D. NBA | |||
| 2. What was it that helped to make the High School Basketball League wildly popular to the public? | |||
| A. The co-operation with Nike, the well-known sportswear manufacturer. B. Broadcasting the games on televisio  n. C. Taipei and Kaohsiung mayors" coming to cheer for their teams at last year"s finals. D. Many tomorrow"s professionals" joining. | |||
| 3.Why does the writer say"Recent HBL tournaments have been very competitive"? | |||
| A. Because there isn"t a school taking the advantage. B. Because HBL fever just keeps getting hotter. C. Because it"s become the place to spot young basketball talent. D. Because the Taipei School Sport Federation took charge of it. | |||
| 4. What would be the best title for the passage? | |||
| A. Today"s Players---Tomorrow"s Professionals B. The High School Basketball League of Taiwan C. The Basketball Fans in Taiwan D. HBL Fever---Just Keeping Getting Hotter | |||
| 5. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? | |||
A. At first, the HBL was no more than a high school football ball tournament. B. It was the successful co-operation with Nike, the well-known sports  wear manufacturerthat changed everything of HBL. C. Many of the mayors came to cheer for their teams during the event. D. Everyone wants to see how the teams will come out to take part in the games. | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| Today we will talk about expressions with "apple". "Apple pie order" means very well organized. Nobody is sure when and where this expression began. It is said that the women of New England loved to have everything in its place, especially when they were making apple pie. Another expression "apple of discord" describes the opposite condition. The ancient story says that all the gods and goddesses were celebrating a marriage when Discord, one of the gods, threw a golden apple on the table which was to be given as a prize to the most beautiful goddess. How could they choose among Juno, Minerva and Venus? When Paris decided to give the golden apple to Venus, Juno and Minerva were very angry and threatened(威胁)him. This began the long Trojan War. Calling a tomato "a love apple" was a mistake. In the sixteenth century, Spain imported the tomato from South America to Morocco, and then Italian businessmen took it to Italy. The Italian name for the tomato was pomo di Moro-apple of the Moors(荒野). When French growers imported it from Italy, they thought di Moro meant d"amour, the French word for love. And so pomo di Moro became the apple of love. People believe many things about the apple. One belief is that it has great powers of keeping people healthy. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Another belief is based on fact. "One rotten apple spoils the barrel." The expression has come to mean that one bad person in a group can cause everyone to act badly. | |||
| 1. Which of the following expressions means badly organized? | |||
| A. Apple pie order. B. Apple of discord. C. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. D. One rotten apple spoils the barrel. | |||
| 2. Which of the following statements is WRONG? | |||
| A. Discord is the name of a god. B. Di Moro means love in Italian. C. "Apple pie order" means very well organized. D. Many people believe apples can keep them healthy. | |||
| 3. We can most probably hear this passage in a radio program about ______. | |||
| A. famous people in America B. traveling in America C. eating in America D. words and their stories | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants and places that wash clothes. People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by the prejudice and discrimination that faced them in this country. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Like most of the other people there, they had come to search for gold. In that largely unoccupied land, the men staked a claim (立界标表明所有权 ) for themselves by placing markers in the ground. However, either because the Chinese were so different from the others or because they worked so patiently that they sometimes succeeded in getting a mining claim to make a profit( where others saw no way to do so) , they became the target of their competitors. They were troubled and attacked in many ways. Often they were prevented from working their claims; some places even passed regulations forbidding them to own claims. The Chinese therefore started to seek out other ways of earning a living. Some of them began to wash clothes for the white miners; others set up small restaurants. ( There were almost no women in California in those days and the Chinese filled a real need by doing this " women"s work". ) Some went to work as farmhands or as fishermen. In the early 1860"s many more Chinese arrived in California. This time railroad companies brought the men in to construct the first railroad line from Califomia to the East. They were sorely needed because the work was so hard and dangerous,and it was carried on in such an isolated part of the country that the railroad company could not find other laborers for the job. As in the case of the first Chinese in America,these Chinese were almost all males; and like them,too,they encountered a great deal of prejudice. The hostility grew especially strong after the railroad project was completed,and the Chinese laborers returned to California-thousands of them,all out of work. Many of today"s Chinese Americans are the descendants (后裔) of some of the early miners and railroad workers. | |||
| 1. What is the main idea of the passage? | |||
| A. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during theCalifornia Gold Rush of 1849. B. Many more Chinese arrived in Califomia to construct the first railroad from California to the East. C. Early Chinese immigrants to America experienced a lot of prejudice and discrimination. D. Prejudice and discrimination that Chinese Americans met. | |||
| 2. Why did the Chinese become the target of their competitors? | |||
| A. Because the Chinese were different and they worked patiently to achieve a lot of success while others couldn"t. B. The Chinese were so different from the others. C. They worked so patiently with little payment. D. There were almost no women in California in those days. | |||
| 3. What was the fate of the Chinese after the construction of the railroad ? | |||
| A. They went back to their own country. B. They stayed to work in the railroad companies. C. They went to California to search for gold. D. The hostility grew especially strong. | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| The word "conservation" has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such a good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials: most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were "limitless" and could "last forever". Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others. Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word "conservation" had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today. For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about correcting the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should be made part of everybody"s daily life. To know abou t the water table in ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic math formulas. We need to know why all watersheds (上游集水区) need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to give their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, grown trees, because living space for most of man"s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic (立方体的) volume above the earth. In a word, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can. | |||
| 1.The author"s attitude towards the use of natural resources is _________. | |||
| A. positive B. uninterested C. optimistic D. critical | |||
| 2. According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that _________. | |||
| A. they had no idea about scientific forestry B. they had little or no sense of environmental protection C. they were not aware of the importance of nature study D. they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials | |||
| 3.To avoid repeating the mistakes of our forefathers, the author suggests that _________. | |||
| A. we plant more trees B. natural sciences be taught to everybody C. environmental education be directed toward everyone D. we return to nature | |||
| 4. How can you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? | |||
| A. Our living space on the earth is getting smaller and smaller. B. Our living space should be measured in cubic volume. C. We need to take some measures to protect space. D. We must preserve good living conditions for both birds and animals. |