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双语现象产生的主要原因是什么?

答案

参考答案:

1、人口迁移

新迁入的人口与当地土著居民语言可能不同,可能产生双语现象。会有几种形式:

(1)移民学习土著居民的语言,如移民学习美国的英语;

(2)移民和土著居民互相学习对方的语言,如巴拉圭的西班牙移民和当地的印第安人;

(3)土著居民学习移民语言,这种现象在中国少数民族地区比较常见。

2、民族主义和政治上的联合

民族主义情绪对于加深双语程度有很大作用,而不同民族在政治上的联合也能很好地维护双语现象.许多非洲国家的双语或多语现象能够稳固地存在。

3、教育和文化

如英语在全世界的通行,历史上主要通过殖民,目前主要是通过教育。

单项选择题

The fact that most Americans live in urban areas does not mean that they reside in the center of large cities. In fact, more Americans live in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas than in the cities themselves.
The Bureau of the Census regards any area with more than 2,500 people as an urban area, and does not consider boundaries of cities and suburbs.
According to the Bureau, the political boundaries are less significant than the social and economic relationships and the transportation and communication systems that integrate a locale. The term used by the Bureau for an integrated metropolis is an MSA, which stands for Metropolitan Statistical Area. In general, an MSA is any area that contains a city and its surrounding suburbs and has a total population of 50,000 or more.
At the present time, the Bureau reports more than 280 MSAs, which together account for 75 percent of the US population. In addition, the Bureau recognizes 18 megapolises, that is, continuous adjacent metropolitan areas. One of the most obvious megapolises includes a chain of hundreds of cities and suburbs across 10 states on the East Coast from Massachusetts to Virginia, including Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. In the Eastern Corridor, as it is called, a population of 45 million inhabitants is concentrated. Another megapolis that is growing rapidly is the California coast from San Francisco through Los Angeles to San Diego.

The underlined word "reside" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A.fill

B.decide

C.occupy

D.live

单项选择题