Camb与ridge 4 test 2 P1.ppt

Cambridge 4 test 2 P1 Lost for Words Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Many minority language are on the danger list 许多少数名族语言濒临灭绝 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. In the Native American Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. 对于居住在美国西南部四州的那瓦霍人来讲，他们的语言正在遭遇灭顶之灾。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Most of its speakers are middle-aged or elderly. 大多数说那瓦霍语的人要么是中年人，那么就是垂垂老者。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run in English. 尽管有许多学生都在学习该门语言，可是学校却是用英文授课的。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Street signs, supermarket goods and even their own newspaper are all in English. 路牌，超市商品甚至他们自己的报纸全部是英文的。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Not surprisingly, linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain in a hundred years time. 因此语言学家怀疑在百年之后还会不会有人会说这门语言也就不足为奇了。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Navajo is far from alone. Half the worlds 6,800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations - thats one language lost every ten days. 那瓦霍语决不是惟一会有此厄运的语言。再经历两代人的时间，全球6,800种语言当中的半数就有可能从世界上彻底消失——这就相当于平均每十天就有一种语言小时。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Never before has the planets linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. 地球上语言的多样性从未以如此惊人的速度降低过。 Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile . Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd.