2024年专升本英语阅读理解练习题及答案解析
Each year on Feb. 21, UNESCO holds International Mother Language Day(IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages: many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.
What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost—not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed too.
Through IMLD, more and more people begin realizing the terrible situation and try to stop it. Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project is a very good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload text, audio and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves to the world.
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribe of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate in this language, which died out in the 1960s.
These activities give life to those endangered languages. Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the word.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have special feelings about our mother language. This is why we should remember the wise words of Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart."
问题：
1.UNESCO holds IMLD every year in order to help people to_____.
A.learn and use endangered languages
B.show their talents for learning languages
C.practice reading skills of their mother languages
D.realize the situation of endangered languages
[考点]事实细节题
【精析】D 根据第一段第二句"The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages: many of them are disappearing each year."可知，国际母语日这一活动旨在帮助人们关注世界上语言的消失，即帮助人们意识到濒危语言的处境。故选D。
2.What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?
A.They discussed how to make good use of Google.
B.They offered online courses on endangered languages.
C.They shared materials about endangered languages online.
D.They translated endangered languages into mother languages.
[考点]推理判断题
【精析】C 根据第三段第三句"Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload text, audio and videos to the project website."可知，许多讲濒危语言的人及濒危语言的保护者将文本、音频和视频上传到这个项目的网站上，即在网上分享濒危语言的有关材料。故选C。
3.What does the underlined word "revive" mean in Paragraph 4?
A.Recreating.B.Learning about.C.Giving life to.D.Getting rid of.
[考点]词语理解题
【精析】 C 根据第四段最后一句"Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate in this language, which died out in the 1960s."可知，该项目的成员致力于鼓励人们学习这种语言并使用这种语言进行交流，而这种语言在20世纪60年代就已经消失了。由此可推知，revive的意思应与句中died out(消失)表达的意思相反，意为"使复活"。recreate：再现，再创造;learn about：学习，得知;give life to：赋予……生命;get rid of：摆脱。故选C。根据第五段第一句"These activities give life to those endangered languages."也可推知正确答案。
4.What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A.It is more difficult to protect endangered languages.
B.The disappearance of languages has already stopped.
C.Young people don't care about endangered languages.
D.Young people have creative ways to protect languages.
[考点]推理判断题
【精析】D 根据第五段第二句"Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities."可知，许多年轻人设计应用程序并使用社交媒体来支持他们的活动。由此可推知，年轻人用更具创造性的方法来保护语言，所以D项正确，C项错误;A、B两项在第五段中并未提及。故选D。
5.The author mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to_____.
A.tell us the importance of one's mother language
B.show his contribution to language protection
C.tell us the trouble in learning endangered languages
D.show the possibility of protecting mother languages
[考点]推理判断题
【精析】A 根据最后一段第二句"We all have special feelings about our mother language."可知，我们都对自己的母语有着特殊的感情。再结合纳尔逊·曼德拉的话"如果你用一个人能听懂的语言与之交谈，他会记在脑子里。如果你用一个人自己的语言与之交谈，他会记在心里。"可推知，作者旨在告诉我们母语的重要性。故选A。
