2018-2020学年名校高二下期末汇编——六选四.docxVIP

PAGE 1 PAGE 1 2018-2020学年名校二下期末汇编——六选四 【2020七宝中学高二下期末】 6选4 Now please choose four out of six A. Certainly, experiments do show that a language can have a fascinating effect on how its speakers think. B. If indigenous people want to give up their ancestral language to join the modern world, why should we consider it a tragedy? C. Worldviews aren’t only those ways of perceiving things that we consider admirable or charming. D. To have a language used only with certain other people is a powerful tool for connection and a sense of community. AB. Understanding cognitive implications from language differences is a difficult matter. AC. We should foster efforts to keep as many languages spoken as possible, and to at least document what the rest of them are like. “Tell me, why should we care?” he asks. It’s a question I can expect whenever I do a lecture about the looming 迫在眉睫的 extinction of most of the world’s 6,000 languages, a great many of which are spoken by small groups of indigenous people 原住民. “____67____ Languages have always died as time has passed. What’s so special about a language?” he continues. The answer I’m supposed to give is that each language, in the way it applies words to things and its grammar works, is a unique window on the world. In Russia, there’s no word just for blue; you have to specify whether you mean dark or light blue. If a language dies, a fascinating way of thinking dies along with it. I used to say something like that, but lately I have changed my answer. ____68____ Russian speakers, for example, are on average 124 milliseconds faster than English speakers at identifying when dark blue changes into light blue. This is cool stuff. But the question is whether such subtle differences, perceptible only in a laboratory, qualify as worldviews — cultural standpoints or ways of thinking that we consider important. I think the answer is no. But if a language is not a worldview, what do we tell the guy in the lecture hal