2018高级会计师《职称英语》串讲班：补全短文1

高会备考正在进行中，在备考高级会计实务的同时不要忘记学习高级会计师职称英语哦，今天华宇小编为大家准备了高会职称英语练习题。

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The Day a Language Died

【选项】

A.Papua New Guinea [ˌpæpjuəˌnju:ˈɡini] is an extremely rich source of different languages，but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction(灭绝).

Papus New Guines 是不同语言极其丰富的来源，但其中100余种语言已濒临灭绝。

B.These languages don’t have many native speakers.能说这些语言的活着的人已经不多了。

C.Some people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts.有些人可能想用心学习其中的一些歌曲。

D.However，he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba [kə'tɔ:bə] reservation in South Carolina where he learned the language.然而，在他在学习语言的South Carolina地区，他是个常客。

E.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.对剩下的我们来说，当一门语言死了，我们失去了以独特方式观察和描述这个世界的可能性。

F.As these languages become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increases.当这些语言变得更加强大，它们被用作商业和文化发展的工具。

The Day a Language Died

1.When Carlos Westez died at the age of 76， a language died, too.Westez, more commonly known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language, Catawba.

【译文】语言逝去之日伴随Carios Westez在76岁去世，一种语言也死了。Westez，通常被称为红雷云，是美洲土著语言Catawba后的使用者。

Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations.( 46 ) They are all that is left of the Catawba language.The language that people used to speak is gone forever.

【译文】想听Catawba歌曲的任何人都可以联系在华盛顿特区的史密森学会，早在20世纪40年代，红雷云就在那里为后代录制了一系列歌曲。(46)这些歌曲是剩下的全部Catawba语言。用来交谈的Catawba语言已经消失了。

【解析】learn some of these songs与上文的a series of songs相互对应。

A.Papua New Guinea [ˌpæpjuəˌnju:ˈɡini] is an extremely rich source of different languages，but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction(灭绝).

B.These languages don’t have many native speakers.

C.Some people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts.

D.However，he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba [kə‘tɔ:bə] reservation in South Carolina where he learned the language.

E.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.

F.As these languages become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increases.

【答案】C.Some people might want to learn some of these songs by hearts.

2.We are all aware of the danger that modern industry can do to the world’s ecology(生态).However, few people are aware of the impact widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life.English has spread all over the world.Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages, as well. ( 47 ) When this happens，hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few people die out.

【译文】我们都知道现代工业可能会导致全球生态危机，然而，很少有人知道广泛使用的语言对其他语言和生活方式的冲击。英语已经遍布世界各地。汉语，西班牙语，俄语，印度语已成为强大的语言。(47)。与此同时，数百种语言少数人用来交谈的语言消失。

【解析】该句中的“these languages”与上文的“English,Chinese,Spanish ,Russian, and Hindi”相对应;“more powerful”与上文的powerful相对应。

【答案】F.As these languages become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increases.

3.Scholars believe there are around 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years.There are many examples, Araki is a native language of the island of Vanuatu [ˌvɑnuˈɑtu], located in the Pacific Ocean.It is spoken by only a few older adults，so like Catawba，Araki will soon disappear.Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers. ( 48 ).In the Americas, 100 languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, are dying out.