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 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.

　　【语篇导读】　本文叙述了学者们正在努力记录濒临消失的语言和文化，来挽救这些语言。

　　★1.Many scholars are making efforts to ________．

　　A．promote global languages

　　B．rescue disappearing languages

　　C．search for language communities

　　D．set up language research organizations

　　答案　B　[事实细节题。根据文章第二段中“In an effort to prevent...they reflect.”可知学者们正在努力挽救濒临消失的语言。]

　　2．What does“that tradition”in Paragraph 3 refer to?

　　A．Having full records of the languages.

　　B．Writing books on language teaching.

　　C．Telling stories about language users.

　　D．Living with the native speakers.

　　答案　A　[词义猜测题。根据文章第四段中“But he is not content...without record.”可知“that tradition”是指Turin记录语言。故选A。]

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