As more and more people speak the global language of English，Chinese，Spanish，and Arabic，other languages are rapidly disappearing．In fact，half of the 6，000-7，000 languages spoken around the world today will be likely to die out by the next century，according the United Nations Educational，Scientific，and Cultural Organization （UNESCO）．
   In an effort to prevent language loss，scholars from a number of organizations - UNESCO and National Geographic among them - have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect．
   Mark Turin，a scientist at the Macmillan Center，Yale University，who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas，is following inthat tradition．His recently published book，A Grammar of Thangmi and Their Culture，grows out of his experience living，working，and raising a family in a village in Nepal．
   Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin，who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India，Nepal，Bhutan，and China．But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record．
   At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials - including photographs，films，tape recordings，and field notes - which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection．
   Now，through the two organizations that he has founded - the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project - Turin has started a campaign to make such documents，found in libraries and stores around the world，available not just to schools but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected．Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet，Turin notes，the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities．

（1）Many scholars are making efforts to

B

B

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A．promote global languages
B．rescue disappearing languages
C．search for languages communities
D．set up language research organizations
（2）What does "that tradition" in Paragraph 3 refer to

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A

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A．having detailed records of the languages
B．writing books on language users
C．telling stories about language speakers
D．living with the native speakers
（3）What is Turin's book based on？

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D

A．The cultural studies in India．
B．The documents available at Yale．
C．His language research in Bhutan．
D．His personal experience in Nepal．
（4）Which of the following best describes Turin's work？

C

C

A．Write，sell and donate．
B．Record，repair and reward．
C．Collect，protect and reconnect．
D．Design，experiment and report．