问题 综合

读巴西图,完成下列要求。

(1)巴西历史上多次迁都,1763年由①城市迁往②城市,1960年由②城市迁往③城市。其中②城市是_________,③城市是________。

(2)巴西的I、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ、V五个区域中人口密度最小的是________区域。

(3)分布在巴西I区域的河流是________,该区域的水土流失和土地沙化日趋严重的主要人为原因:①________;②_________。

答案

(1)里约热内卢;巴西利亚

(2)I

(3)亚马孙河;①森林(热带雨林)遭破坏;②土地利用不合理

阅读理解

The world’s native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study.

The study identified five global “hot spots” where languages are vanishing faster than anywhere else ---- eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, the US state of Oklahoma and the US Pacific Northwest. “Languages are suffering a global extinction crisis that greatly goes beyond the pace of species extinction,” linguistics(语言学的) professor David Harrison noted, who said half of the world’s 7,000 languages were expected to disappear before the end of the century.

Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. “Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, it’s only in people’s heads,” he said. “We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base.”

Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. “The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them,” he said. “When we asked them why they were learning it, they said,‘This is a dying language, we need to learn it’.” Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the  Amurdag  language, which had previously been thought extinct.

The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues.

小题1:What does this text mainly talk about?

A.A study on native languages endangered.

B.The knowledge of native languages.

C.People’s efforts in saving native languages.

D.Harrison and his study on languages.小题2:The underlined word“vanishing”in the second paragraph can be best replaced by        .

A.developing

B.changing

C.increasing

D.Disappearing小题3:According to Harrison, language extinction        .

A.causes the researchers lots of worries

B.speeds up the pace of species extinction

C.threatens the existing of Spanish and English

D.brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment小题4:Which of the following can be described as good news?

A.Native languages became less endangered in Australia.

B.A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language.

C.Researchers were well received by native people in Australia.

D.Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language.

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