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1、上海市高级口译第一阶段笔试分类模拟笔记题（五）（总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟）一、Note-taking and Gap-Filling（总题数：0，分数：0.00）二、A总题数：1，分数：50.00）Can we save the worlds 1 languages? The Hadza community lives in Tanzania. Theirlanguage Hadza is unique. However the language may not be 2 for long. There are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza 3 . The
2、 number will continue to 4 and their sing-song tongue, 5 with clicks and glottal stops, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. The language is in danger of being 6 .The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their 7 tongue. Every 8 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7
3、,000 languages spoken on the planet may 9 by the end of the 20th century. Eighty percent of the 10 languages have no 11 form. 12 the last speaker dies, so does the language. But eighty percent of the worlds population now speak just 13 of its languages. So, will the languages on the 14 be reduced to
4、 a 15 of tongues?Not if some people have their way, who are fighting back to 16 rarer tongues successfully. Perhaps the most successful example is 17 , which was dead two centuries ago but is a living language now. Other languages have also been brought back from the brink of 18 through the sheer wi
5、ll and determination of their communities. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and 19 of minority-speaker communities are 20 by national governments.Can we save the worlds 1 languages? The Hadza community lives in Tanzania. Theirlanguage Hadza is unique. However the language
6、may not be 2 for long. There are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza 3 . The number will continue to 4 and their sing-song tongue, 5 with clicks and glottal stops, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. The language is in danger of being 6 ._The Hadza are not alone in facing the loss of their 7 to
7、ngue. Every 8 days a language dies. Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken on the planet may 9 by the end of the 20th century. Eighty percent of the 10 languages have no 11 form. 12 the last speaker dies, so does the language. But eighty percent of the worlds population now speak just
8、 13 of its languages. So, will the languages on the 14 be reduced to a 15 of tongues?Not if some people have their way, who are fighting back to 16 rarer tongues successfully. Perhaps the most successful example is 17 , which was dead two centuries ago but is a living language now. Other languages h
9、ave also been brought back from the brink of 18 through the sheer will and determination of their communities. Language preservation works best when the language, culture and 19 of minority-speaker communities are 20 by national governments.（分数：50.00）解析：dying 听力原文Can we save the worlds dying languag
10、es? After witnessing how one of our earliest languages isin danger of disappearing, we should look at efforts to preserve our oral culture.Along Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania there lives the Hadza community sitting in male-and female-only groups, with the men playing small lute-like stringed instr
11、uments and applying a pre-hunt poisonous tree resin to their metal arrowheads. They light a small fire by rapidly twisting a hardwood twig into a softwood stick from the local Commiphora tree. It soon smolders and, intrigued, I have a go too. Its surprisingly difficult, but with their help, I get it
12、 to smoke eventually.You have to travel four hours west from the city of Arusha to meet this ancient tribe ofhunter-gatherers, and join them in a bow-and-arrow hunt for prey among the thorn bushes. The Hadza people may have nothing no animals, land or possessions aside from the clothes on their back
13、s, but they are rich in the skills and resourcefulness they need to produce everything from theirenvironment.Thats not all that sets them apart from most societies. The Hadza are thought to be the most ancient modern humans, the first surviving peoples to have split off from our ancestral family tre
14、e, and are not closely related genetically to any other peoples. Their language a clickingtongue, also called Hadza is unique and unrelated even to other clicking languages. Somelinguists believe Hadza may be close to humankinds first ancestral language.However the language may not be around for lon
15、g. The Hadza bushmen, who live in groups of around15 people, are believed to have been living in this remote area for at least 10,000 years, but there are now fewer than 1,000 Hadza left. Fewer than 400 of them continue to live a stone-age lifestyle they are among the last hunter-gatherers in a cont
16、inent of farmers and pastoralists. The numbers will continue to drop, as their land is swallowed up by farmers, government-designated conservation areas and private game reserves. And their sing-song tongue, punctuated with clicks and glottal stops, and which has no words for numbers past four, is no longer being learned by all Hadza children. As the modern world encroaches, the language is in danger of being lost as th
