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 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.

　　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.

　　What does “that tradition’ in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

　　A. Having full records of the languages

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