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1、Unit13　People(B)Ⅰ.阅读理解(2017·湖南六校联盟高三联考)Taktaktabulaba?Youprobablydon'tknowhowtoanswerthatquestion—unlessyouhappentobeoneoftheabout430peopleintheworldwhospeakalanguagecalledMatukarPanau.Thenyouwouldknowitmeans“Whatarewedoing？”MatukarPanauisoneoftheworld'srarestlanguages.Itissp

2、okeninjusttwosmallcoastalvillagesinPapuaNewGuinea.Severalyearsago，DavidHarrison，alanguageexpert，didn'tknowmuchaboutMatukarPanaueither.Noonehadeverrecordedorevenstudieditswordsandrules.Withsofewspeakers，thelanguageriskeddisappearingsoon.Itwasendangered.Harrisondidn'twantthatto

3、happentoMatukarPanau.Soin2009，hesetoutforPapuaNewGuinea.Hisgoal：usemoderntechnologytohelptheremainingspeakerspreservetheirnativetongue.ButMatukarPanauisfarfromtheonlylanguagefacingloss.Studiessuggestthatbytheendofthiscentury，nearlyhalfofthe7，000languagesnowspokenworldwidecoul

4、ddisappear.They'reindangerpartlybecausetheonlypeopleleftspeakingthemareelderlyadults.Whenthoseindividualsdie，theirlanguagewilldiewiththem.Inaddition，childrenmaydiscardanativelanguageandinsteadusemorecommongloballanguages，suchasChinese，EnglishorSpanish.IntheUnitedStatesalone，1

5、34nativeAmericanlanguagesareendangered.“Languagehotspots”existallovertheworld.Theseareplaceswithendangeredlanguagesthathaven'tbeenrecorded.TheyincludethestateofOklahoma，pocketsofcentralandeasternSiberia，partsofnorthernAustraliaandcommunitiesinSouthAmerica.【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文。Matu

6、karPanau语是一种稀有的语种，由于讲这种语言的人很少，这种语言面临消亡的危险；与此类似，到本世纪末世界上将有近一半的语言面临消亡，仅美国就有134种本地语言濒临消亡。1．WhatdidHarrisongotoPapuaNewGuineafor?A．Learningtheirnativelanguage.B．Helpingpreservetheirendangeredtongue.C．Learningtheirmoderntechnology.D．Teachingthenativesanewlanguage.B　[考查细节理解。根据第三段的“

7、Harrisondidn'twantthattohappentoMatukarPanau.Soin2009，hesetoutforPapuaNewGuinea”和“helptheremainingspeakerspreservetheirnativetongue”可知，为了不让MatukarPanau语消亡，语言学家Harrison去了PapuaNewGuinea，帮助保护该语言，故B项正确。]2．Theunderlinedword“discard”inParagraph4means“”．A．hearofB．pickupC．getridofD．l

8、earnaboutC　[考查词义猜测。根据画线词后的“anativelanguageandinsteadusemorecommonglo