At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials­including photographs, films, tap 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 founded­the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project­Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars 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.

　　【试题分析】　世界上许多语言正面临着灭绝的形势，针对这种现状，科学家和学者付出了很大的努力去拯救这些语言及其所反映的文化。

　　1．Many scholars are making efforts to________．

　　A．promote global languages

　　B．rescue the disappearing languages

　　C．search for language communities

　　D．set up languages research organizations

　　解析：细节理解题。文章第一段提到世界上有些语言正面临灭绝的形势，再根据第二段第一句中“In an effort to prevent language loss”可知，学者们努力的目的是为了拯救正在消失的语言。

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