新课标20192020学年新教材高中英语单元综合检测1新人教版必修第.docVIP

新课标2019_2020学年新教材高中英语单元综合检测1新人教版必修第 新课标2019_2020学年新教材高中英语单元综合检测1新人教版必修第 新课标2019_2020学年新教材高中英语单元综合检测1新人教版必修第 单元综合检测 ( 一) ( 时间： 100 分钟；满分： 120 分) 第一部分 阅读 ( 共两节，满分 50 分) 第一节 ( 共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分 ) A Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years ， but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.When the world was still populated by hunter - gatherers ， small ，tightly knit( 联系 ) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.Some language experts believe that 10，000 years ago， when the world had just five to ten million people ， they spoke perhaps 12 ， 000 languages between them. Soon afterwards ， many of those people started settling down to become farmers ， and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.In recent centuries ， trade ， industrialisation ， the development of the nation - state and the spread of universal compulsory education ， especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades ， all have caused many languages to disappear ，and dominant languages such as English ， Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over. At present ， the world has about 6 ， 800 languages.The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven.The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages ， often spoken by many people ， which hot ， wet zones have lots ，often spoken by small numbers.Europe has only around 200 languages ；the Americas about 1 ， 000； Africa 2 ， 400；and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3 ， 200， of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800.The median number( 中位数 ) of speakers is a mere 6 ， 000， which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that. Already well over 400 of the total of 6， 800 languages and close to extinction( 消 亡 ) ， with only a few elderly speakers left.Pick ， at random ， Busuu in Cameroon(eight remaining speakers) ， Chiapaneco in Mexico(150) ， Lipan Apache in the United States(